different between cure vs pickle

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kj??(?)/, /kj??(?)/, /kj??(?)/
• (General American) enPR: kyo?or, kyûr, IPA^(key): /kj??/, /kj?/
• (Norfolk) IPA^(key): /k??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?), -??(?), -??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English cure, borrowed from Old French cure (“care, cure, healing, cure of souls”), from Latin cura (“care, medical attendance, cure”). Displaced native Old English h?lu.

Noun

cure (plural cures)

1. A method, device or medication that restores good health.
2. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
3. (figuratively) A solution to a problem.

   • Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.

   • 1763, Richard Hurd, On the Uses of Foreign Travel

     the proper cure of such prejudices

4. A process of preservation, as by smoking.
5. A process of solidification or gelling.
6. (engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.
7. (obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.

   • vicarages of great cure, but small value

8. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
   • c. 1646, Henry Spelman, De Non Temerandis Ecclesiis: Churches Not to Be Violated

     The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners.

9. That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.

   Synonym: curacy

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English curen, from Old French curer, from Latin c?r?re. Partially displaced Old English ?eh?lan, whence Modern English heal.

Verb

cure (third-person singular simple present cures, present participle curing, simple past and past participle cured)

1. (transitive) To restore to health.

   Synonym: heal

2. (transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.

3. (transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).

4. (transitive) To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.

5. (intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.
6. (intransitive) To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.

7. To preserve (food), typically by salting
8. (intransitive) To solidify or gel.

9. (obsolete, intransitive) To become healed.
10. (obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.

Derived terms

Translations

Related terms

Anagrams

• crue, cuer, ecru, écru

French

Etymology

From Middle French cure, from Old French cure, from Latin c?ra, from Proto-Indo-European *k?eys- (“to heed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky?/
• Rhymes: -y?

Noun

cure f (plural cures)

1. (archaic) care, concern
2. (obsolete) healing, recovery
3. (medicine) treatment; cure
4. (religion) vicarage, presbytery

Derived terms

• n'avoir cure

Related terms

• curer

Verb

cure

1. first-person singular present indicative of curer
2. third-person singular present indicative of curer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of curer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of curer
5. second-person singular imperative of curer

Further reading

• “cure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• crue, crûe, écru, reçu

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin c?ra.

Noun

cure f (plural curis)

1. treatment
2. cure

Related terms

• curâ

Galician

Verb

cure

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of curar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of curar

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ure

Noun

cure f

1. plural of cura

Anagrams

• ecru

Middle English

Noun

cure

1. Alternative form of curre

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French cure.

Noun

cure f (plural cures)

1. desire

Descendants

• French: cure

Old French

Etymology

From Latin c?ra.

Noun

cure f (oblique plural cures, nominative singular cure, nominative plural cures)

1. medical attention
2. worry
3. desire

Related terms

• curer

Descendants

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (cure)

Portuguese

Verb

cure

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of curar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of curar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of curar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of curar

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin currere, present active infinitive of curr?, from Proto-Italic *korz?, from Proto-Indo-European *?ers-. Mostly replaced by the modified variant form curge.

Verb

a cure (third-person singular present curge, past participle curs) 3rd conj.

1. (archaic) to run
2. (archaic) to flow
3. (archaic) to drain

Synonyms

• (to run): alerga, fugi
• (to flow): curge
• (to drain): scurge

Related terms

Spanish

Verb

cure

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of curar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of curar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of curar.

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)

1. A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.

   A pickle goes well with a hamburger.

2. (often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
3. A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.
4. The brine used for preserving food.

   This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into.

5. (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.

6. (endearing) A mildly mischievous loved one.
7. (baseball) A rundown.

   Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.

8. (uncountable) A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown

   The boys played pickle in the front yard for an hour.

9. (slang) A penis.
10. (slang) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.

    Load some shards in that pickle.

11. (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.
12. 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)

1. (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.
2. (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.

3. (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 […]
4. (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.

Derived terms

• pickled
• pickling

Translations

Etymology 2

Perhaps from Scottish pickle, apparently from pick +? -le (diminutive suffix). Compare Scots pickil.

Noun

pickle (plural pickles)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
2. (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 […]

Verb

pickle (third-person singular simple present pickles, present participle pickling, simple past and past participle pickled)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To eat sparingly.
2. (Northern England, Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To pilfer.

Anagrams

• pelick

French

Etymology

English pickle

Noun

pickle m (plural pickles)

1. pickle (kind of chutney popular in Britain)