English Dictionary

pie

IPA（発音記号）

/paɪ/

動詞

他動詞

(transitive) To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing). / (transitive) To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.

日本語の意味

（冗談や抗議行為として）顔にパイを投げつけること / （角を曲がる際に用心深く慎重に動くこと）角を曲がる際に、用心深い様子を表す動作

At the protest, one activist tried to pie the corrupt official during the press conference.

抗議活動で、ある活動家が記者会見中に腐敗した役人の顔にパイを投げつけようとした。

意味（1）

(transitive) To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).

I'd like to see someone pie the chairman of the board.

意味（2）

(transitive) To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.

意味（3）

(transitive) (of printing types) To reduce to confusion; to jumble.

The door of the [printing] shop was shattered. He went in. The presses were broken. The type pied.

pies （ present singular third-person ）

pieing （ participle present ）

pied （ participle past ）

pied （ past ）