Patty vs. Pie — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Patty and Pie
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Definitions
Patty➦
A patty or burger (in British English) is a flattened, usually round, serving of ground meat and/or legumes, grains, vegetables, or meat alternatives. Patties are found in multiple cuisines throughout the world.
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).
Patty➦
A small rounded, flattened cake of food, especially one made from ingredients that have been previously ground, chopped, or minced
A hamburger patty.
A peppermint patty.
Pie➦
A dish composed of fruit, meat, cheese, or other ingredients baked over, under, or surrounded by a crust of pastry or other dough.
Patty➦
A patty shell.
Pie➦
A layer cake having cream, custard, or jelly filling.
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Patty➦
A small pie; a pasty.
Pie➦
(Informal) A pizza.
Patty➦
(US, Australia, New Zealand) A flattened portion of ground meat or a vegetarian equivalent, usually round but sometimes square in shape.
The cook fried the hamburger patty, then put it in a bun.
Pie➦
Something similar to or resembling pie
Mud pie.
Patty➦
(Jamaica) A pastry with various fillings and spices baked inside a flaky shell, often tinted golden yellow with an egg yolk mixture or turmeric.
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).
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Patty➦
(England, strictly MLE) A foolish or stupid person.
Pie➦
See magpie.
Patty➦
A little pie.
Pie➦
A former unit of currency of India.
Patty➦
Small flat mass of chopped food
Pie➦
An almanac of services used in the English church before the Reformation.
Patty➦
Small pie or pasty
Pie➦
Variant of pi2.
Patty➦
Round flat candy
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
