verb Download 🔗Share To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution. Examples : "These cucumbers pickle very well." food vegetable 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." material process chemistry industry technical Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share (in the Python programming language) To serialize. Examples : "The programmer is pickling the game data to save it to a file. " computing technology technical internet electronics machine process system function Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment. Examples : "Historical accounts describe captors pickling enslaved people after brutal floggings, adding salt to their open wounds to increase their suffering. " action law history inhuman Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To eat sparingly. Examples : "Even though she wasn't feeling well, she was pickling at her dinner, taking only tiny bites of soup. " food Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To pilfer. Examples : "Someone was pickling office supplies from the supply closet. " action word Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An instance of processing something in brine or other solution. Examples : "My grandmother's pickling of cucumbers is a summer tradition in our family. " food process Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A process by which the oxide scale on steel (especially stainless steels) is chemically removed (by strong acids). Examples : "After welding the stainless steel parts, pickling removed the unsightly oxide layer, leaving a clean surface. " material chemistry process technology industry science Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading