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Pity vs Pi - What's the difference?

pity | pi |

As nouns the difference between pity and pi

is that pity is (uncountable) a feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something while pi is foot.

As a verb pity

is to feel pity for (someone or something).

As an interjection pity

is short form of what a pity.

pity

English

Alternative forms

* pitty (obsolete)

Noun

  • (uncountable) A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.
  • * Bible, Proverbs xix. 17
    • He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Hehas no more pity in him than a dog.
  • *, Folio Society, 2006, p.5:
    • The most usuall way to appease those minds we have offendedis, by submission to move them to commiseration and pitty .
  • (countable) Something regrettable.
    • It's a pity you're feeling unwell because there's a party on tonight.
  • * Laurence Sterne
    • It was a thousand pities .
  • * Addison
    • What pity is it / That we can die but once to serve our country!
  • (obsolete) piety
    • (Wyclif)

    Synonyms

    * (mercy) ruth * (something regrettable) shame

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To feel pity for (someone or something).
  • * Bible, Psalms ciii. 13
    • Like as a father pitieth' his children, so the Lord ' pitieth them that fear him.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.11:
    • She lenger yet is like captiv'd to bee; / That even to thinke thereof it inly pitties mee.
  • * Book of Common Prayer
    • It pitieth them to see her in the dust.

    Interjection

  • Short form of what a pity.

    • Synonyms

    * shame, what a pity, what a shame

    Derived terms

    * piteous * pitiable * pitiful * self-pity * what a pity ----

    pi

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The name of the sixteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek.
  • (mathematics) An irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its diameter; approximately 3.1415926535897932384626433832795; usually written .
  • (metal typesetting) Metal type that has been spilled, mixed together, or disordered. Also called pie.

    • Synonyms

    * (irrational constant) Archimedes' constant, Ludolph's constant, Ludolph's number

    Verb

  • (metal typesetting) To spill or mix printing type. Also, "to pie".

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (typography) Not part of the usual font character set; especially, non-Roman type or symbols as opposed to standard alphanumeric Roman type.
    • In computing, pi characters are entered with special combinations of keys like ctrl-alt-x, or via character sequences such as &
  • 123;.

    • Abbreviation

    (Abbreviation) (head)
  • (typography) pica (conventionally, 12 points = 1 pica, 6 picas = 1 inch)
  • piaster
  • pious

    • Related terms

    * cicero * pica stick

    Anagrams

    * English two-letter words ----