Pickle vs Brick - What's the difference?
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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.
* 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 194:
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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(countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
(uncountable) Considered collectively, as a building material.
(countable) Something shaped like a brick.
(dated) A helpful and reliable person.
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(basketball, slang) A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object.
(informal) A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug.
(technology, slang) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
(firearms) a carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
(poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
Made of brick(s).
To build with bricks.
* 1904 , Thomas Hansom Cockin, An Elementary Class-Book of Practical Coal-Mining , C. Lockwood and Son, page 78
* 1914 , The Mining Engineer , Institution of Mining Engineers, page 349
To make into bricks.
* 1904 September 15, James C. Bennett, Walter Renton Ingalls (editor), Lead Smelting and Refining with Some Notes on Lead Mining (1906), The Engineering and Mining Journal, page 66
(slang) To hit someone or something with a brick.
To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
* 2007 December 14, Joe Barr, “PacketProtector turns SOHO router into security powerhouse”, Linux.com
As a noun 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.As a proper noun brick is
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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''.
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.
Derived terms
* pickled * picklingEtymology 2
Perhaps from Scottish 'to trifle, pilfer'brick
English
Noun
- This wall is made of bricks .
- This house is made of brick .
- a plastic explosive brick
- Thanks for helping me wash the car. You're a brick .
- We can't win if we keep throwing up bricks from three-point land.
Derived terms
* brick in one's hat * brickie * bricklayer * bricks and mortar * bricks and clicks * brick shithouse * drop a brick * hit the bricks * like a cat on a hot brick * like a ton of bricks * make bricks without straw * make bricks without straws * run into a brick wall * shit a brick * shit bricks * take to the bricks * talk to a brick wall * thick as a brickAdjective
(-)- All that was left after the fire was the brick chimney .
Derived terms
* brick shithouseVerb
(en verb)- If the ground is strong right up to the surface, a few yards are usually sunk and bricked before the engines and pit top are erected
- The shaft was next bricked between the decks until the top scaffold was supported by the brickwork and [made] to share the weight with the prids.
- The plant, which is here described, for bricking fine ores and flue dust, was designed and the plans produced in the engineering department of the Selby smelter.
- My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm .
- installing third-party firmware will void your warranty, and it is possible that you may brick your router.