| 单词 | pie |
| 释义 | pie 1. n. 1. a baked dish of meat, fish, fruit, etc., usu. with a top and base of pastry. 2. anything resembling a pie in form (a mud pie). Phrases and idioms easy as pie very easy. pie chart a circle divided into sectors to represent relative quantities. pie-eater Austral. sl. a person of little account. pie-eyed sl. drunk. pie in the sky an unrealistic prospect of future happiness after present suffering; a misleading promise. Etymology: ME, perh. = PIE(2) f. miscellaneous contents compared to objects collected by a magpie 2. n. archaic 1 a magpie. 2. a pied animal. Etymology: ME f. OF f. L pica 3. n. & v. (US pi) --n 1. a confused mass of printers' type. 2. chaos. --vtr. (pieing) muddle up (type). Etymology: perh. transl. F P&AC.T&EA. = PIE(1) 4. n. hist. a former monetary unit of India equal to one-twelfth of an anna. Etymology: Hind. etc. pa' i f. Skr. pad, padi quarter |
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