Pickle vs. Cucumber

Picklenoun

A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.

Picklenoun

Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.

Picklenoun

The brine used for preserving food.

Picklenoun

(informal) A difficult situation; peril.

Picklenoun

(affectionate) A mildly mischievous loved one.

Picklenoun

(baseball) A rundown.

Picklenoun

A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown

Picklenoun

(slang) A penis.

Picklenoun

(slang) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.

Picklenoun

(metalworking) 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.

Picklenoun

In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.

Picklenoun

A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)

Picklenoun

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.

Pickleverb

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

Pickleverb

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

Pickleverb

(programming) (in the Python programming language) To serialize.

Pickleverb

To eat sparingly.

Pickleverb

To pilfer.

Picklenoun

See Picle.

Picklenoun

A solution of salt and water, in which fish, meat, etc., may be preserved or corned; brine.

Picklenoun

Any article of food which has been preserved in brine or in vinegar.

Picklenoun

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.

Picklenoun

A troublesome child; as, a little pickle.

Pickleverb

To preserve or season in pickle; to treat with some kind of pickle; as, to pickle herrings or cucumbers.

Pickleverb

To give an antique appearance to; - said of copies or imitations of paintings by the old masters.

Picklenoun

vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar

Picklenoun

informal terms for a difficult situation;

Pickleverb

preserve in a pickling liquid

Picklenoun

a relish consisting of vegetables or fruit preserved in vinegar or brine

Picklenoun

a pickled cucumber.

Picklenoun

liquid used to preserve food or other perishable items.

Picklenoun

a difficult situation

Picklenoun

used as an affectionate form of address to a mischievous child

Picklenoun

an acid solution for cleaning metal objects.

Pickleverb

preserve (food or other perishable items) in vinegar or brine

Pickleverb

immerse (a metal object) in an acid or other chemical solution for cleaning

Cucumbernoun

A vine in the gourd family, Cucumis sativus.

Cucumbernoun

The edible fruit of this plant, having a green rind and crisp white flesh.

Cucumbernoun

A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of which is eaten either fresh or picked. Also, similar plants or fruits of several other genera. See below.

Cucumbernoun

a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit

Cucumbernoun

cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons

Cucumber

Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a widely-cultivated creeping vine plant in the Cucurbitaceae gourd family that bears usually cylindrical fruits, which are used as vegetables. Considered an annual plant, there are three main varieties of cucumber — slicing, pickling, and burpless/seedless — within which several cultivars have been created.