Pickle

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  • noun. An edible product, such as a cucumber, that has been preserved and flavored in a solution of brine or vinegar.
  • noun. A solution of brine or vinegar, often spiced, for preserving and flavoring food.
  • noun. A chemical solution, such as an acid, that is used as a bath to remove scale and oxides from the surface of metals before plating or finishing.
  • noun. A disagreeable or troublesome situation; a plight. synonym: predicament.
  • noun. A rundown.
  • transitive verb. To preserve or flavor (food) in a solution of brine or vinegar.
  • transitive verb. To treat (metal) in a chemical bath.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To pick.
  • To glean.
  • To eat sparingly or squeamishly; pick.
  • To commit small thefts; pilfer.
  • noun. A grain of corn; any minute particle; a small quantity; a few.
  • noun. A hay-fork.
  • noun. A small piece of land inclosed with a hedge; an inclosure; a close.
  • noun. A solution of salt and sulphuric acid in which skins are packed to preserve them. Sometimes other ingredients are used.
  • noun. A solution of salt and water in which flesh, fish, or other substance is preserved; brine.
  • noun. Vinegar, sometimes impregnated with spices, in which vegetables, fish, oysters, etc., are preserved.
  • noun. A thing preserved in pickle (in either of the above senses); specifically, a pickled cucumber.
  • noun. In founding, a bath of dilute sulphuric acid, or, for brass, of dilute nitric acid, to remove the sand and impurities from the surface.
  • noun. A state or condition of difficulty or disorder; a disagreeable position; a plight.
  • noun. A troublesome child.
  • To preserve in pickle or brine; treat with pickle; also, to preserve or put up with vinegar, etc.: as, to pickle herring; to pickle onions.
  • To imbue highly with anything bad: as, a pickled rogue.
  • To prepare, as an imitation, and sell as genuine; give an antique appearance to: said of copies or imitations of paintings by the old masters.
  • To subject, as various hardware articles, to the action of certain chemical agents in the process of manufacture.
  • To treat with brine or pickle, as nets, to keep them from rotting.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. See picle.
  • transitive verb. To preserve or season in pickle; to treat with some kind of pickle.
  • transitive verb. To give an antique appearance to; -- said of copies or imitations of paintings by the old masters.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A solution of salt and water, in which fish, meat, etc., may be preserved or corned; brine.
  • noun. Vinegar, plain or spiced, used for preserving vegetables, fish, eggs, oysters, etc.
  • noun. Any article of food which has been preserved in brine or in vinegar.
  • noun. A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their color.
  • noun. A troublesome child.
  • noun. to be in disagreeable position; to be in a condition of embarrassment, difficulty, or disorder.
  • noun. to prepare a particular reproof, punishment, or penalty for future application.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A kernel, grain
  • noun. A bit, small quantity
  • noun. A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
  • noun. , any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
  • noun. The brine used for preserving food.
  • noun. A difficult situation, peril.
  • noun. An affectionate term for a mildly mischievous loved one
  • noun. A rundown.
  • noun. A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
  • noun. A penis.
  • verb. To preserve food in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
  • verb. To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
  • verb. (in the Python programming language) To serialize.
  • cross-reference
    Form
    pickled  pickling  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    keep  preserve  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bacon  biscuit  butter  carrot  chop  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    picle  
    verb-form