What's the difference between pie and pier?

Pie


Definition:

  • (n.) An article of food consisting of paste baked with something in it or under it; as, chicken pie; venison pie; mince pie; apple pie; pumpkin pie.
  • (n.) See Camp, n., 5.
  • (n.) A magpie.
  • (n.) Any other species of the genus Pica, and of several allied genera.
  • (n.) The service book.
  • (n.) Type confusedly mixed. See Pi.
  • (v. t.) See Pi.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Other Christmas favourites, including stollen, organic mince pies and Schweppes tonic will also be included among 100 seasonal products on the list of 1,000 items which shoppers can choose from over the next few months.
  • (2) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
  • (3) This technique is compared with calculated outline and ring source attenuation correction techniques in a pie phantom.
  • (4) We describe a premature infant with progressive worsening of unilateral PIE, which was successfully treated by selective bronchial balloon catheterization after failure of conservative management.
  • (5) Studied were the composition and the technologic properties of the milk of Dutch Black pied cattle under this country's conditions.
  • (6) Superfusion with 10(-6) to 10(-4) M arachidonic acid resulted in a slow developing positive inotropic effect (PIE) in a concentration-dependent manner.
  • (7) The 2 Fat Butchers in Walmer offers high-quality free-range meat and excellent pork pies and scotch eggs.
  • (8) A Staphylococcus strain was inoculated on the top and cut surfaces of freshly baked Southern custard pies which were then packaged in a pasteboard carton and held at 30 C. Daily plate counts of surface sections 0.3 inch (0.76 cm) in thickness were made.
  • (9) She almost wills her biscuits to dry out and her pies to sink.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The big difference is that I’ve got my finger in all the pies, whereas Lord Farquaad only thought he did.
  • (11) A total of 33 strains of staphylococci, isolated from Black Pied cows with subclinical mastitis (conformed by the brom-thymol test), were studied to establish their biochemical properties and resistance to antibiotics as well as the occasional correlation between enzyme activity and resistance.
  • (12) An increase in eosinophils carrying surface IgE was demonstrated in alveolar cells from PIE Syndrome particularly with hypodense eosinophils from CEP patients.
  • (13) The appearance of PIE and its complications, i.e., pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum, occurred over a wide range of mean airway pressures and positive end-expiratory pressures; there was no direct relationship between barotrauma and mean airway pressure or positive end-expiratory pressure.
  • (14) MCI-154 (10(-7) to 10(-4) M) produced a concentration-dependent PIE amounting to 75% of the maximal effect of isoproterenol.
  • (15) The killer's taste in movies stretches from westerns to gangster thrillers to Elvis Presley musicals: apple-pie imports that were boycotted by socialist president Sukarno's coalition before the coup.
  • (16) A case of PIE syndrome induced by Saiboku-To (TJ96) is reported.
  • (17) She had a history of PIE syndrome induced by disodium cromoglycate 4 years previously (Jpn.
  • (18) It will be streamed live here: Monetary Policy Committee August 2013 Inflation Report My colleague Andrew Sparrow will be live-blogging the whole session here: Mark Carney gives evidence to the Commons Treasury committee: Politics live blog 9.52am BST This graphic shows how most of the Royal Mail's revenues come from its parcels and letters divisions, although its European parcels business, GLS, makes a decent contribution (with revenue of £1.5m, out of a total pie of over £9bn.
  • (19) Safdie himself still maintains a pied-à-terre in the 13-storey building, which stands on a narrow, man-made peninsula just south of the Old Port section of Montreal.
  • (20) I got it wrong on PIE and I apologise for having done so.

Pier


Definition:

  • (n.) Any detached mass of masonry, whether insulated or supporting one side of an arch or lintel, as of a bridge; the piece of wall between two openings.
  • (n.) Any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall. See Buttress.
  • (n.) A projecting wharf or landing place.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In north Wales, Llandudno town council has had to cancel its annual display at short notice after it was told it would have to pay at least £22,000 to insure the wonderful Victorian pier in case of a fire.
  • (2) The centre-left PD party, for example, is in turmoil - with leader Pier Luigi Bersani resigning over the weekend after both his favoured candidates for the presidency were rejected.
  • (3) In between, I watch a parade of Berliner life: women chain-smoking in the pool’s trademark wicker chairs, fully clothed men sipping a morning beer in the 26C heat, kids jumping off the diving pier and screaming down the large waterslide.
  • (4) The Piers Harris Self-Concept Scale was administered to 174 fourth and sixth graders, half of whom attended SDP schools and half control schools.
  • (5) For all that it might suggest seaside breaks and afternoons whiled away on the pier, the Norfolk town of Great Yarmouth does not feel like a happy place.
  • (6) You think that your experiences are anything compared to mine?” In response to the recording journalist, Piers Morgan tweeted: “This tape is outrageous.
  • (7) Model Katie Price's interview with Piers Morgan, in which she spoke about her breakup with husband Peter Andre and her recent miscarriage, brought 4.5 million viewers to ITV1 on Saturday, 11 July.
  • (8) "I ask because I saw Piers Morgan on TV suggesting that Arsenal were the best team ever because they went a season without losing.
  • (9) Two reservation groups, matched for age and sex, received four administration of a personal (Piers-Harris) and an Indian self-concept scale, in a repeated measures counterbalanced design, varying language and order.
  • (10) "I have a lot of admiration for Rupert Murdoch personally," Brown told GQ's interviewer, Piers Morgan.
  • (11) Abbado's land cascades down a steep slope into the Mediterranean, and you have to negotiate a series of crazily angled wooden walkways, designed by him, to get to his beach and the pier for his yacht.
  • (12) Jeremy’s older brother Piers – a self-employed weather forecaster – was a prime example.
  • (13) Is it any wonder that Piers Morgan has moved to the US?
  • (14) He would soon find strong allies in Pier Luigi Bersani, leader of the Italian left, who would sweep Italy off her feet, and in the German Social Democrats who would finally oust Angela Merkel from power.
  • (15) That wasn't a problem, as long as there was a high turnover of new initiates, all figuratively staggering out of Margate pier at six in the morning, convinced they had just discovered the future of music.
  • (16) Piers Morgan has spent a bitter week hitting out at his former CNN colleague Anderson Cooper, blaming the dismal ratings for Piers Morgan Tonight on Cooper’s poor lead-in.
  • (17) Because – and I hate to break this to Piers – if you are emasculated by the notion of a woman making her own reproductive choices, then you were never much of a man to begin with.
  • (18) What's always puzzled me about the charge sheet against Boris is the Piers Gaveston problem.
  • (19) Compared with the other designs, prostheses with nonrigid connectors at the pier exhibited greater apical and horizontal stress particularly with one-point loading on the pier.
  • (20) There are bad days, increasingly so for them, but then there are days like this that break new boundaries of cataclysmic play and make those of us who predicted a close series seem like end-of-the-pier charlatan soothsayers.

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