different between clutch vs pickle
clutch
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kl?t??/
- Rhymes: -?t?
Etymology 1
From Middle English clucchen, clicchen, cluchen, clechen, cleken, from Old English cly??an (“to clutch, clench”), from Proto-Germanic *klukjan?, from Proto-Germanic *klu- (“to ball up, conglomerate, amass”), from Proto-Indo-European *glew- (“to ball up; lump, mass”).Cognate with Swedish klyka (“clamp, fork, branch”). The noun is from Middle English cleche, cloche, cloke ("claw, talon, hand"; compare Scots cleuk, cluke, cluik (“claw, talon”)), of uncertain origin, with the form probably assimilated to the verb.
Alternative etymology derives Old English cly??an from Proto-Germanic *kl?k- (“claw, hand”), from Proto-Indo-European *gl?k-, *?l??- (“claw, hand; to clutch, snatch”). If so, then cognate with Irish glac (“hand”).
Alternative forms
- cletch, clitch, cleach (dialectal)
- cleak, cleek, cleik, click (dialectal)
- clouch (obsolete)
Verb
clutch (third-person singular simple present clutches, present participle clutching, simple past and past participle clutched)
- To seize, as though with claws. [from 14th c.]
- a. 1700, Jeremy Collier, A Thought
- A man may set the poles together in his head, and clutch the whole globe at one intellectual grasp.
- a. 1700, Jeremy Collier, A Thought
- To grip or grasp tightly. [from 17th c.]
Synonyms
- (grip or grasp tightly): clasp, grasp, grip; See also Thesaurus:grasp
Translations
Noun
clutch (plural clutches)
- The claw of a predatory animal or bird. [from 13th c.]
- (by extension) A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil. [from 16th c.]
- the clutch of poverty
- 1676, Edward Stillingfleet, A defence of the discourse concerning the idolatry practised in the Church of Rome […]
- I must have […] little care of myself, if I ever more come near the clutches of such a giant.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 57
- You scold yourself; you know it is only your nerves—and yet, and yet... In a little while, it is impossible to resist the terror that seizes you, and you are helpless in the clutch of an unseen horror.
- A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car. [from 19th c.]
- The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.
- Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
- A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- The clutch which I had made to save myself in falling had torn away from this chin-band and let the lower jaw drop on the breast, but little else was disturbed, and there was Colonel John Mohune resting as he had been laid out a century ago.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
Synonyms
- (small handbag): clutch bag
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Variant form of cletch, from Middle English cleken (“to hatch”), perhaps from Old Norse klekja (“to hatch”).
Noun
clutch (plural clutches) (collective)
- A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs. [from 18th c.]
- A group or bunch (of people or things). [from 20th c.]
- 2012, The Economist, 22nd Sep., Innovation in Government: Britain's Local Labs
- No longer would Britons routinely blame the national government when things went wrong. Instead they would demand action from a new clutch of elected mayors, police commissioners and the like.
- 2012, The Economist, 22nd Sep., Innovation in Government: Britain's Local Labs
Derived terms
- clutch initiation
- subclutch
Translations
Verb
clutch (third-person singular simple present clutches, present participle clutching, simple past and past participle clutched)
- (transitive) To hatch.
Etymology 3
Unknown; possibly analagous to clinch, pinch, which have similar senses.
Noun
clutch (plural clutches)
- (US) An important or critical situation.
Translations
Adjective
clutch (comparative more clutch, superlative most clutch)
- (US, Canada) Performing or tending to perform well in difficult, high-pressure situations.
Derived terms
- clutch artist
- clutch hitter
References
- clutch at OneLook Dictionary Search
- clutch in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- cultch
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- kløtsj
Etymology
From English clutch
Noun
clutch m (definite singular clutchen, indefinite plural clutcher, definite plural clutchene)
- a clutch (device between engine and gearbox)
- clutch pedal
- trå in clutchen - step on the clutch
Synonyms
- kobling
- kopling
References
- “clutch” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- kløtsj
Etymology
From English clutch
Noun
clutch m (definite singular clutchen, indefinite plural clutchar, definite plural clutchane)
- a clutch (device between engine and gearbox)
- (short form of) clutch pedal (as in English)
Synonyms
- kopling
References
- “clutch” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?klot??/, [?klot??]
Noun
clutch m (plural clutches)
- Alternative form of cloche
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pickle
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?kl?/
- Rhymes: -?k?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English pikel, pykyl, pekille, pigell (“spicy sauce served with meat or fish”), borrowed from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German pekel (“brine”). Cognate with Scots pikkill (“salt liquor, brine”), Saterland Frisian Piekele (“pickle, brine”), Dutch pekel (“pickle, brine”), Low German pekel, peckel, pickel, bickel (“pickle, brine”), German Pökel (“pickle, brine”).
Alternative forms
- pickel (obsolete and rare)
Noun
pickle (countable and uncountable, plural pickles)
- A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
- A pickle goes well with a hamburger.
- (often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
- A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.
- The brine used for preserving food.
- This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into.
- (informal) A difficult situation; peril.
- The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 194:
- I beg you, Miss Jones, to realize the pickle you're in.
- (endearing) A mildly mischievous loved one.
- (baseball) A rundown.
- Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.
- (uncountable) 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 Thesaurus:penis
Derived terms
- in a pickle
- pickle switch
Descendants
- ? Dutch: pickles
- ? French: pickles
- ? Irish: picil
- ? Korean: ?? (pikeul)
- ? Spanish: pickles
- ? Welsh: picil
Translations
See also
- piccalilli
Verb
pickle (third-person singular simple present pickles, present participle pickling, simple past and past participle pickled)
- (transitive, ergative) To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
- We pickled the remainder of the crop.
- These cucumbers pickle very well.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pickle.
- (transitive) 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 […]
- 2005, Peter Norton et al, Beginning Python:
- (historical) To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
- 1756, Thomas Thistlewood, diary, quoted in 2001, Glyne A. Griffith, Caribbean Cultural Identities, Bucknell University Press (?ISBN), page 38:
- On Wednesday 26 May, […] I had [an enslaved man] flogged and pickled and then made Hector shit in his mouth. […] In July, […] Gave [another enslaved man] a moderate whipping, pickled him well, made Hector shit in his mouth, […]
- 2016, Christopher P. Magra, Poseidon's Curse: British Naval Impressment and Atlantic Origins of the American Revolution, Cambridge University Press (?ISBN), page 70:
- Naval seamen could also be keel-hauled, ducked, pickled, and flogged around the fleet.
- [elsewhere, page 93, the book explains:] A pickled man had his flogged back washed with vinegar.
- Naval seamen could also be keel-hauled, ducked, pickled, and flogged around the fleet.
- 1756, Thomas Thistlewood, diary, quoted in 2001, Glyne A. Griffith, Caribbean Cultural Identities, Bucknell University Press (?ISBN), page 38:
Derived terms
- pickled
- pickling
Translations
Etymology 2
Perhaps from Scottish pickle, apparently from pick +? -le (diminutive suffix). Compare Scots pickil.
Noun
pickle (plural pickles)
- (Northern England, Scotland) A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
- (Northern England, Scotland) A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit, a few. Usually in partitive construction, frequently without "of"; a single grain or kernel of wheat, barley, oats, sand or dust.
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, "Thrawn Janet"
- […] ill things are like guid—they baith come bit by bit, a pickle at a time […]
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, "Thrawn Janet"
Verb
pickle (third-person singular simple present pickles, present participle pickling, simple past and past participle pickled)
- (Northern England, Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To eat sparingly.
- (Northern England, Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To pilfer.
Anagrams
- pelick
French
Etymology
English pickle
Noun
pickle m (plural pickles)
- pickle (kind of chutney popular in Britain)
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