{
    "term": "pie",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a baked dish of fruit or meat and/or vegetables with pastry on the bottom, sides and top",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a slice of apple pie"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a steak and kidney pie"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Help yourself to some more pie."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What’s the filling in these pies?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a pie dish"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Food"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["apple", "chicken", "meat"],
                "… of pie": ["piece", "slice"],
                "verb + pie": ["bake", "cook", "make"],
                "pie + noun": ["filling", "dish", "pan"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the pie"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say that something is typical of America",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "very easy or very easily",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The whole procedure is as easy as ABC."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Fooling him was as easy as falling off a log."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "very kind and friendly, especially when you are not expecting it",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to say and show that you are sorry for a mistake that you made",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be involved in a lot of different activities and have influence over them, especially when other people think that this is annoying",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a share of the available money or benefits that you believe you have a right to",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The company is demanding a larger slice of the corporate pie."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "an event that somebody talks about that seems very unlikely to happen",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "This talk of moving to Australia is all just pie in the sky."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/paɪ/",
                "audio": "pi/pie/pie__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/paɪ/",
                "audio": "pi/pie/pie__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: probably the same word as pie, used in the naming of birds; the various combinations of ingredients being compared to objects randomly collected by a magpie."
}