Season vs Pickle - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between season and pickle

is that season is each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn and winter; yeartide 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 verbs the difference between season and pickle

is that season is to flavour food with spices, herbs or salt while pickle is to preserve food in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.

season

English

(wikipedia season)

Noun

(en noun)

Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn and winter; yeartide.

* Addison

the several seasons of the year in their beauty

A part of a year when something particular happens: mating season'', ''rainy season'', ''football season .

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(obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning.

* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,

O! she is fallen

Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea

Hath drops too few to wash her clean again,

And salt too little which may season give

To her foul-tainted flesh.

* 1605 , (Shakespeare), The Tragedy of Macbeth, III, 4

You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

(cricket) The period over which a series of Test matches are played.

(North America, broadcasting) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of each.

The third season of ''Friends'' aired from 1996 to 1997.

(obsolete) An extended, undefined period of time.

* 1656 , , The Mortification of Sin

So it is in a person when a breach hath been made upon his conscience, quiet, perhaps credit, by his lust, in some eruption of actual sin; — carefulness, indignation, desire, fear, revenge are all set on work about it and against it, and lust is quiet for a season , being run down before them; but when the hurry is over and the inquest is past, the thief appears again alive, and is as busy as ever at his work.

Usage notes

In British English, a year-long group of episodes is called a series, whereas in North American English the word "series" is a synonym of "program" or "show".

Synonyms

* (l) * (l)

Derived terms

* end-of-season * high season * in season * low season * mating season * midseason * mid-season form * open season * out of season * rutting season * seasonable * seasonal * seasonally * silly season * unseasonally * unseasonable * unseasonably

Verb

To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.

To make fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure; to ripen; to mature; as, to season one to a climate.

Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices; as, to season timber.

To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.

To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance; as, timber seasons in the sun.

(obsolete) To copulate with; to impregnate.

(Holland)

Anagrams

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

(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

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