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Nickel vs Pickle - What's the difference?

nickel | pickle |

In lang=en terms the difference between nickel and pickle

is that nickel is a playing card with the rank of five while pickle is a pipe for smoking methamphetamine.

As nouns the difference between nickel and pickle

is that nickel is a silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni while pickle is a cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.

As verbs the difference between nickel and pickle

is that nickel is to plate with nickel while pickle is to preserve food in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.

As a proper noun Nickel

is {{surname|patronymic|from=given names}.

nickel

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.
  • (US, Canada, countable) A coin worth 5 cents.
  • Five dollars.
  • Five hundred dollars.
  • Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the west coast of the United States.
  • (slang) A playing card with the rank of five
  • A five-year prison sentence.

    • Derived terms

    * antimonial nickel * arsenical nickel * bismuth-nickel * copper-nickel * cupro-nickel * cupronickel * hot nickel * Nichrome * nickel-and-dime * nickel-antigorite * nickel bag * nickel-bloom * nickel bronze * nickel carbonyl * nickel chloride * nickel-chlorite * nickel glance * nickel green * nickel gymnite * nickel hydride * nickel hydroxide * nickelian * nickelic * nickeliferous * nickeline * nickel-in-the-slot * nickel-iron * nickelisation * nickelization * nickelise * nickelize * nickelite * nickel nitrate * nickel note * nickel nurser * nickelocene * nickelodeon * nickelous * nickel ocher * nickel ochre * nickel pyrites * nickel regulus * nickel salt * nickel silver * nickel-skudderudite * nickel spinel * nickel steel * nickel sulfate * nickel sulphate * nickel sulfide * nickel sulphide * nickel tetracarbonyl * not worth a plug nickel * not worth a plugged nickel * plug nickel * plugged nickel * Raney nickel * tetracarbonylnickel

    Related terms

    * kupfernickel * niccolite * nife * nitinol

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To plate with nickel.

    • References

    * Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

    See also

    * false copper * garnierite * pentlandite ----

    pickle

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) pikel, pykyl, pekille, .

    Alternative forms

    * pickel (obsolete and rare)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
    • A pickle goes well with a hamburger.
  • (Often in plural: pickles ), any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
  • The brine used for preserving food.
    • This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into.
  • A difficult situation, peril.
    • The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off.
  • * 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 194:
    • I beg you, Miss Jones, to realize the pickle' you're in.
  • 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.
    • Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.
  • A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
    • The boys played pickle in the front yard for an hour.
  • (slang) A penis.
  • (slang) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
    • Load some shards in that ''pickle''.
  • (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.
    • Synonyms
    * (penis) See also
    Derived terms
    * in a pickle * pickle switch
    See also
    * piccalilli

    Verb

    (pickl)
  • To preserve food in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
    • We pickled the remainder of the crop.
  • To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
    • The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning.
  • (programming) (in the Python programming language) To serialize.
  • * 2005 , Peter Norton et al'', ''Beginning Python
    • You can now restore the pickled data. If you like, close your Python interpreter and open a new instance, to convince yourself...
  • * 2008 , Marty Alchin, Pro Django
    • To illustrate how this would work in practice, consider a field designed to store and retrieve a pickled copy of any arbitrary Python object.
    Derived terms
    * pickled * pickling

    Etymology 2

    Perhaps from Scottish 'to trifle, pilfer'

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) A kernel, grain
  • (Scotland) A bit, small quantity