noun Download 🔗Share A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup. Examples : "A pickle goes well with a hamburger." food vegetable Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish. Examples : "My grandmother makes delicious pickles for the family's lunchboxes. " food vegetable Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The brine used for preserving food. Examples : "This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into." food substance Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A difficult situation; peril. Examples : "The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off." situation condition Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A mildly mischievous loved one. Examples : "My little sister is a real pickle; she always gets into trouble at school, but I love her dearly. " family person character Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A rundown. Examples : "Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third." situation condition Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown Examples : "The boys played pickle in the front yard for an hour." game sport entertainment Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A pipe for smoking methamphetamine. Examples : "Load some shards in that pickle." utensil device technical Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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 colour. Examples : "The metalworker used a pickle to remove rust from the old bicycle parts. " material substance chemistry process technical industry machine Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted. Examples : "The engineer used the pickle to adjust the focus of the landing lights on the helicopter. " technology electronics device military nautical system machine Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution. Examples : "These cucumbers pickle very well." food agriculture process Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid. Examples : "The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning." technical chemistry industry process machine Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share (in the Python programming language) To serialize. Examples : "I will pickle the student's test data to save it to a file. " computing technology internet technical science Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment. Examples : "The teacher, angry with the student's repeated disruptions, ordered the school janitor to pickle him after the detention. " police history law inhuman Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.) Examples : "The recipe called for a pickle of salt to season the stew. " food substance Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit, a few. Usually in partitive construction, frequently without "of"; a single grain or kernel of wheat, barley, oats, sand or dust. Examples : "My son only ate a pickle of rice for lunch. " amount food Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To eat sparingly. Examples : "Since money was tight this month, Maria had to pickle at meals, eating only small portions of everything. " food Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To pilfer. Examples : "The student was accused of pickling small amounts of stationery from the classroom supply cabinet. " action word Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading