Crisis vs Pickle - What's the difference?
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A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which the patient is expected to recover or die.
(psychology) A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
(drama) A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.
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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Crisis is a related term of pickle.
As nouns the difference between crisis and pickle
is that crisis is a crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point 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.crisis
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(crises)Derived terms
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* * English nouns with irregular plurals ----pickle
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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''.
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* (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.