Cookies vs. Pie — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cookies and Pie
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Cookies
A small, usually flat and crisp cake made from sweetened dough.
Pie
A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough casing that contains a filling of various sweet or savoury ingredients. Sweet pies may be filled with fruit (as in an apple pie), nuts (pecan pie), brown sugar (sugar pie), sweetened vegetables (rhubarb pie), or with thicker fillings based on eggs and dairy (as in custard pie and cream pie).
Cookies
(Slang) A person, usually of a specified kind
A lawyer who was a tough cookie.
Pie
A dish composed of fruit, meat, cheese, or other ingredients baked over, under, or surrounded by a crust of pastry or other dough.
Cookies
(Computers) A collection of information, usually including a username and the current date and time, stored on the local computer of a person using the World Wide Web, used chiefly by websites to identify users who have previously registered or visited the site.
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Pie
A layer cake having cream, custard, or jelly filling.
Cookies
Variant of cookie.
Pie
(Informal) A pizza.
Cookies
Plural of cookie
Pie
Something similar to or resembling pie
Mud pie.
Cookies
(dated) cooky
Pie
A whole that can be portioned out
"That would ... enlarge the economic pie by making the most productive use of every investment dollar" (New York Times).
Pie
See magpie.
Pie
A former unit of currency of India.
Pie
An almanac of services used in the English church before the Reformation.
Pie
Variant of pi2.
Pie
A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling.
The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert.
Pie
Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
Shepherd's pie is made of mince covered with mashed potato.
Pie
(Northeastern US) A pizza.
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.
Pie
(figuratively) The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
Pie
(letterpress) A disorderly mess of spilt type.
Pie
(cricket) An especially badly bowled ball.
Pie
A pie chart.
Pie
(slang) The vulva.
Pie
(obsolete) Magpie.
Pie
(historical) The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to 192 of a rupee or 12 of an anna.
Pie
(zoology) pie-dog: an Indian breed, a stray dog in Indian contexts.
Pie
(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 27.9 cm.
Pie
(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.
Pie
(transitive) To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
Pie
(transitive) (of printing types) To reduce to confusion; to jumble.
Pie
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.
Pie
A magpie.
Pie
The service book.
Pie
Type confusedly mixed. See Pi.
Pie
See Pi.
Pie
Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top
Pie
A prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages
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