Pickle vs Mustard - 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.
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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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A plant of certain species of the genus Brassica'', or of related genera (especially ''Sinapis alba , in the family Brassicaceae, with yellow flowers, and linear seed pods.
Powder or paste made from seeds of the mustard plant, and used as a condiment or a spice.
The leaves of the mustard plant, used as a salad.
Dark yellow colour, the colour of mustard.
The tomalley of a crab, which resembles the condiment.
Of a dark yellow colour.
As nouns the difference between pickle and mustard
is that pickle is a cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup or pickle can be (scotland) a kernel, grain while mustard is a plant of certain species of the genus brassica'', or of related genera (especially ''sinapis alba , in the family brassicaceae, with yellow flowers, and linear seed pods.As a verb pickle
is to preserve food in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.As an adjective mustard is
of a dark yellow colour.pickle
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.
Derived terms
* pickled * picklingEtymology 2
Perhaps from Scottish 'to trifle, pilfer'mustard
English
(Brassica)Noun
(en-noun)- When the waitress brought the food I asked her if she had any Dijon mustard .
- Mustard and cress sandwiches.