Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Patchy in color; splotched or piebald.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Party-colored; variegated with spots of different colors; spotted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of
pi , orpie , v. - adjective Variegated with spots of different colors; party-colored; spotted; piebald.
- adjective (Zoöl.) the bontebok.
- adjective (Zoöl.) the dabchick.
- adjective (Zoöl.) any Asiatic thrush of the genus Turdulus.
- adjective (Zoöl.), [Prov. Eng.] The snow bunting.
- adjective (Zoöl.) a common European flycatcher (
Ficedula atricapilla ). The male is black and white.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pi . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pie . - adjective
Decorated orcolored inblotches .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A single case of type stood on a rack and the form of a bill-of-fare -- partly "pied" -- was on a marble slab which formed the top of a small table.
Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls Alice [Illustrator] Carsey 1887
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Maybe removing the whiteface platinum pearl hen from her yellow-white albino mate (also called pied) caused the disruption.
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A gendarme a pied was the only person near me, and I asked him, if he could explain the reason of the movement.
A Residence in France Cooper, J Fenimore 1836
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A 2006 study in documented plummeting populations of a bird called the pied flycatcher in the Netherlands.
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A 2006 study in documented plummeting populations of a bird called the pied flycatcher in the Netherlands.
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I am proud of the fact that I seldom get to make a ski run alone, so I'm called a pied piper by some skiers.
Vail Daily - Top Stories Warren Miller Vail 2010
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A 2006 study in documented plummeting populations of a bird called the pied flycatcher in the Netherlands.
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A 2006 study in documented plummeting populations of a bird called the pied flycatcher in the Netherlands.
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A 2006 study in documented plummeting populations of a bird called the pied flycatcher in the Netherlands.
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A 2006 study in documented plummeting populations of a bird called the pied flycatcher in the Netherlands.
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But sometimes multiple words move left, a phenomenon the linguist John Roberts Ross PhD ’67 identified and called “pied piping” in his MIT dissertation.
Have you heard about the “whom of which” trend? Peter Dizikes | MIT News 2023
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