pickle

pickle
1. noun
a) A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.

A pickle goes well with a hamburger.

b) (Often in plural: pickles), any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.

This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into.

2. verb
a) To preserve food in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.

We pickled the remainder of the crop.

b) To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.

The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning.


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Synonyms:
(for preserving meat), / (for preserving meats or vegetables) / , , (colloq.)


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  • Pickle — Pic kle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pickled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pickling}.] 1. To preserve or season in pickle; to treat with some kind of pickle; as, to pickle herrings or cucumbers. [1913 Webster] 2. To give an antique appearance to; said of copies or …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • pickle — [pik′əl] n. [ME pikil < MDu pekel < ? picken, to prick, in sense “that which pricks, or is piquant”] 1. any brine, vinegar, or spicy solution used to preserve or marinate food 2. a vegetable, specif. a cucumber, preserved in such a solution …   English World dictionary

  • Pickle — Pic kle, n. [Obs.] See {Picle}. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Pickle — Pickle. См. Травление. (Источник: «Металлы и сплавы. Справочник.» Под редакцией Ю.П. Солнцева; НПО Профессионал , НПО Мир и семья ; Санкт Петербург, 2003 г.) …   Словарь металлургических терминов

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  • pickle — n *predicament, plight, dilemma, quandary, scrape, fix, jam …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

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