Contingency vs Pickle - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The quality of being contingent, of happening by chance; unpredictability.
(countable) A possibility; something which may or may not happen. A chance occurrence, especially in finance, unexpected expenses.
(countable) An amount of money which a party to a contract has to pay to the other party (usually the supplier of a major project to the client) if he or she does not fulfill the contract according to the specification.
(logic, countable) A statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction.
A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
(Often in plural: pickles ), any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
The brine used for preserving food.
A difficult situation, peril.
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A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit, a few. Usu . in partitive construction, freq. without /of/; a single grain or kernel of wheat, barley, oats, sand or dust.
An affectionate term for a mildly mischievous loved one
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(baseball) A rundown.
A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
(slang) A penis.
(slang) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
(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.
In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.
To preserve food in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
(programming) (in the Python programming language) To serialize.
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Contingency is a related term of pickle.
As nouns the difference between contingency and pickle
is that contingency is (uncountable) the quality of being contingent, of happening by chance; unpredictability while pickle is a cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup or pickle can be (scotland) a kernel, grain.As a verb pickle is
to preserve food in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.contingency
English
(wikipedia contingency)Noun
Synonyms
* (quality of happening by chance) possibility * See alsoAntonyms
* (quality of happening by chance) inevitability, impossibilityCoordinate terms
* (statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction) contradiction, tautologyDerived terms
* contingency planpickle
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pikel, pykyl, pekille, .Alternative forms
* pickel (obsolete and rare)Noun
(en noun)- A pickle goes well with a hamburger.
- This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into.
- The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off.
- I beg you, Miss Jones, to realize the pickle' you're in.
- Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.
- The boys played pickle in the front yard for an hour.
- Load some shards in that ''pickle''.
Synonyms
* (penis) See alsoDerived terms
* in a pickle * pickle switchSee also
* piccalilliVerb
(pickl)- We pickled the remainder of the crop.
- The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning.
- You can now restore the pickled data. If you like, close your Python interpreter and open a new instance, to convince yourself...
- To illustrate how this would work in practice, consider a field designed to store and retrieve a pickled copy of any arbitrary Python object.
