Pie vs. Tart

Pienoun

A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling.

Pienoun

Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.

Pienoun

(Northeastern US) Pizza.

Pienoun

(figuratively) The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.

Pienoun

(letterpress) A disorderly mess of spilt type.

Pienoun

(cricket) An especially badly bowled ball.

Pienoun

(pejorative) a gluttonous person.

Pienoun

A pie chart.

Pienoun

(slang) The vulva.

Pienoun

(obsolete) Magpie.

Pienoun

(historical) The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to 1/192 of a rupee or 1/12 of an anna.

Pieverb

(transitive) To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).

Pieverb

(transitive) To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.

Pieverb

(transitive) (of printing types) To reduce to confusion; to jumble.

Pienoun

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.

Pienoun

See Camp, n., 5.

Pienoun

A magpie.

Pienoun

The service book.

Pienoun

Type confusedly mixed. See Pi.

Pieverb

See Pi.

Pienoun

dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top

Pienoun

a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages

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).

Tartadjective

Sharp to the taste; acid; sour.

Tartadjective

(of wine) high or too high in acidity.

Tartadjective

(figuratively) Sharp; keen; severe.

Tartnoun

A type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie.

Tartnoun

A prostitute.

Tartnoun

By extension, any woman with loose sexual morals.

Tartverb

To practice prostitution

Tartverb

To practice promiscuous sex

Tartverb

To dress garishly, ostentatiously, whorishly, or sluttily

Tartadjective

Sharp to the taste; acid; sour; as, a tart apple.

Tartadjective

Fig.: Sharp; keen; severe; as, a tart reply; tart language; a tart rebuke.

Tartnoun

A species of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie.

Tartnoun

a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money

Tartnoun

a small open pie with a fruit filling

Tartnoun

pastry cup with a filling of fruit or custard and no top crust

Tartadjective

tasting sour like a lemon

Tartadjective

harsh;

Tart

A tart is a baked dish consisting of a filling over a pastry base with an open top not covered with pastry. The pastry is usually shortcrust pastry; the filling may be sweet or savoury, though modern tarts are usually fruit-based, sometimes with custard.