piiras — meaning in English

English meaning

• pie noun A baked dish with a pastry crust and a filling, sweet or savoury.
• quiche noun A savoury baked tart made from eggs and cream in a pastry crust, often with added vegetables, cheese, or meat.
• turnover noun The total amount of money a business takes in sales over a given period.

Senses

piiras is used for these senses in English:

• pie A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling. (Savory pies are more popular in the UK and sweet pies are more popular in the US, so "pie" without qualification has different connotations in these dialects.)
• pie Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
• pie 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.
• quiche A pie made primarily of egg and cream, perhaps mixed with chopped meat or vegetables, in a pastry crust.
• turnover A semicircular pastry made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, enclosing the filling (such as fruit).

pie — full definition

1. noun A baked dish with a pastry crust and a filling, sweet or savoury.
2. noun A whole amount of something to be divided into shares.
3. noun A pie chart.

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