pied
Meaning
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- Having two or more colors, especially black and white.
- Decorated or colored in blotches.
Synonyms
multi-colour
of different colors
multi-color
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/paɪd/
Etymology
From archaic pie (“magpie”), from Old French pie, from Latin pica.
pi
<tabs><tab title="Noun"><p><ol><li>The 16th letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek.</li><li>An irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its diameter; approximately 3.14159265358979323846264338327950; usually written π.</li><li>Metal type that has been spilled, mixed together, or disordered.</li></ol></p></tab><tab title="Verb"><p>To spill or mix printing type.</p></tab><tab title="Adj"><p>Not part of the usual font character set; especially, non-Roman type or symbols as opposed to standard alphanumeric Roman type.</p></tab><tab title="Adj"><p>Pious.</p></tab></tabs>
pie
<tabs><tab title="Noun"><p><ol><li>A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling.</li><li>Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.</li><li>A pizza.</li><li>A paper plate covered in cream, shaving foam or custard that is thrown or rubbed in someone’s face for comical purposes, to raise money for charity, or as a form of political protest; a custard pie; a cream pie.</li><li>The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.</li><li>An especially badly bowled ball.</li><li>A pie chart.</li><li>(informal) Something very easy; a piece of cake.</li><li>(slang) The vulva.</li><li>(slang) A kilogram of drugs, especially cocaine.</li></ol></p></tab><tab title="Verb"><p><ol><li>To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).</li><li>To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.</li><li>(slang) To ignore (someone).</li></ol></p></tab><tab title="Verb"><p>Alternative form of pi (“to spill or mix printing type”)</p></tab></tabs>
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