different between pickle vs boat
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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boat
English
Etymology
From Middle English bot, boot, boet, boyt (“boat”), from Old English b?t (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, *bait? (“boat, small ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?eyd- (“to break, split”). Cognate with Old Norse beit (“boat”), Middle Dutch beitel (“little boat”).
Old Norse bátr (whence Icelandic bátur, Norwegian båt, Danish båd), Dutch boot, German Boot, Occitan batèl and French bateau are all ultimately borrowings from the Old English word.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: b?t, IPA(key): /b??t/
- Rhymes: -??t
- (General American) enPR: b?t, IPA(key): /bo?t/
Noun
boat (plural boats)
- A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
- (poker slang) A full house.
- A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.
- (chemistry) One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.
- (Australia, politics, informal) The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.
Usage notes
- There is no explicit limit, but the word boat usually refers to a relatively small watercraft, smaller than a ship but larger than a dinghy. It is also the normal designation for a submarine (however large), and also for lakers (ships used in the Great Lakes trade in North America).
Synonyms
- (craft on or in water): craft, ship, vessel
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
Descendants
- Esperanto: boato
- Dhivehi: ????? (b??u)
- Fijian: boto
- Hijazi Arabic: ???? (b?t)
- Japanese: ??? (b?to)
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: boet (Norfuk)
- Sinhalese: ???????? (b???uwa)
- Swahili: boti
- Scots: boat, bote (compare native bait, bate)
- Tahitian: poti
- Tok Pisin: bot
See also
- Category:Watercraft
References
- Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ?ISBN
Verb
boat (third-person singular simple present boats, present participle boating, simple past and past participle boated)
- (intransitive) To travel by boat.
- (transitive) To transport in a boat.
- to boat goods
- (transitive) To place in a boat.
- to boat oars
Translations
Anagrams
- Bato, Tabo, atob, btoa
Finnish
Noun
boat
- nominative plural of boa
Anagrams
- abot
Latin
Verb
boat
- third-person singular present active indicative of bo?
Malay
Alternative forms
- buat
Etymology
From Proto-Malayic *buat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /buat/
- Rhymes: -uat, -wat, -at
Verb
boat (1701, used in the form berboat)
- Obsolete form of buat.
West Frisian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bo??t/
Noun
boat n (plural boaten, diminutive boatsje or boatke)
- boat
Derived terms
- stoomboat
- ûnderseeboat
Further reading
- “boat (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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