pie
part of speech
noun (a pie, pies; pie)
meaning for a pupil
1) A pie is food made of pastry filled with fruit, meat or vegetables and baked in an oven. tree →
2) A pie chart is a round graph cut into slices that show parts of a whole. tree →
3) «Pi» (π) is a different word that sounds the same: the number about 3.14 used for circles. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life pies are common foods: apple pie, meat pie, shepherd's pie, pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving. In maths a pie chart shows fractions or percentages of a whole as slices. Phrases: «a piece of pie», «a slice of pie», «as easy as pie», «pie chart», «a finger in every pie».
examples
- Grandma baked an apple pie. tree →
- Can I have a slice of pumpkin pie? tree →
- In Australia people often eat a meat pie at the football. tree →
- The pie chart shows that half the class likes dogs. tree →
- Cut the pie into eight equal pieces. tree →
- That test was as easy as pie! tree →
- Let the pie cool before you eat it, or you'll burn your mouth. tree →
- ‘That is an admirable pie, little kitchen-maid. tree →
note
Countable (a pie, two pies) and uncountable (some pie). Homophone: «pi» (π ≈ 3.14). In a fraction problem, cutting a pie into 8 equal pieces makes each piece 1/8. On a pie chart all slices add up to the whole (100%, or 360 degrees).
In the corpora
- The next verse goes wrong too, about an Owl and a Panther sharing a pie, and they let her stop.
- Home, indeed!» — then turns his back and eats a large slice of cold pie.
- "Telling porkies" is British slang for telling lies, from the rhyming slang "porky pies" for lies.
- In Brisbane, Kirra and Jai start a YouTube channel reviewing servo pies (a servo is a petrol station).
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «pie» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.