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{
"term": "pie",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "a baked dish of fruit or meat and/or vegetables with pastry on the bottom, sides and top",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a slice of apple pie"
},
{
"text": "a steak and kidney pie"
},
{
"text": "Help yourself to some more pie."
},
{
"text": "What’s the filling in these pies?"
},
{
"text": "a pie dish"
}
],
"topics": ["Food"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["apple", "chicken", "meat"],
"… of pie": ["piece", "slice"],
"verb + pie": ["bake", "cook", "make"],
"pie + noun": ["filling", "dish", "pan"],
"preposition": ["in a/the pie"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to say that something is typical of America",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "very easy or very easily",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The whole procedure is as easy as ABC."
},
{
"text": "Fooling him was as easy as falling off a log."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "very kind and friendly, especially when you are not expecting it",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to say and show that you are sorry for a mistake that you made",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to be involved in a lot of different activities and have influence over them, especially when other people think that this is annoying",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "a share of the available money or benefits that you believe you have a right to",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The company is demanding a larger slice of the corporate pie."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "an event that somebody talks about that seems very unlikely to happen",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "This talk of moving to Australia is all just pie in the sky."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/paɪ/",
"audio": "pi/pie/pie__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/paɪ/",
"audio": "pi/pie/pie__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: probably the same word as pie, used in the naming of birds; the various combinations of ingredients being compared to objects randomly collected by a magpie."
}