different between pickle vs spot
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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spot
English
Etymology
From Middle English spot, spotte, partially from Middle Dutch spotte (“spot, speck”), and partially merging with Middle English splot, from Old English splott (“spot, plot of land”). Cognate with North Frisian spot (“speck, piece of ground”), Low German spot (“speck”), Old Norse spotti (“small piece”). See also splot, splotch.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /sp?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
- (US) IPA(key): /sp?t/
Noun
spot (plural spots)
- A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
- The leopard is noted for the spots of color in its fur.
- Why do ladybugs have spots?
- A stain or disfiguring mark.
- I have tried everything, and I can’t get this spot out.
- A pimple, papule or pustule.
- That morning, I saw that a spot had come up on my chin.
- I think she's got chicken pox; she's covered in spots.
- A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
- Would you like to come round on Sunday for a spot of lunch?
- (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
- Here's the twenty bucks I owe you, a ten spot and two five spots.
- A location or area.
- I like to eat lunch in a pleasant spot outside.
- For our anniversary we went back to the same spot where we first met.
- 1800, William Wordsworth, Hart-leap Well
- "A jolly place," said he, "in times of old! / But something ails it now: the spot is curs'd."
- 2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France [1]
- Yachvilli made it 6-0 with a second sweet strike from 45 metres after Matt Stevens was penalised for collapsing a scrum, and then slid another penalty just wide from the same spot.
- A parking space.
- (sports) An official determination of placement.
- The fans were very unhappy with the referee's spot of the ball.
- A bright lamp; a spotlight.
- (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
- Did you see the spot on the news about the shoelace factory?
- Difficult situation; predicament.
- She was in a real spot when she ran into her separated husband while on a date.
- (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.
- (soccer) Penalty spot.
- The act of spotting or noticing something.
- - You've misspelled "terrapin" here.
- - Whoops. Good spot.
- A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
- A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.
- The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
- (in the plural, brokers' slang, dated) Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.
- An autosoliton.
- (finance) A decimal point; point.
- Twelve spot two five pounds sterling. (ie. £12.25)
- Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.
- Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.
Hyponyms
- sitspot
- shot spot
- sweet spot
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Catalan: espot
Translations
Verb
spot (third-person singular simple present spots, present participle spotting, simple past and past participle spotted)
- (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
- (finance) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
- I’ll spot you ten dollars for lunch.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
- Hard water will spot if it is left on a surface.
- a garment spotted with mould
- To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
- I spotted the carpet where the child dropped spaghetti.
- To retouch a photograph on film to remove minor flaws.
- (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.
- I can’t do a back handspring unless somebody spots me.
- (dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
- Most figure skaters do not spot their turns like dancers do.
- To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
- Link not me in self same chain With the wicked-working folk, Who their spotted thoughts do cloak.
- If ever I shall close these eyes but once, / May I live spotted for my perjury.
- To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
- To place an object at a location indicated by a spot. Notably in billiards or snooker.
- The referee had to spot the pink on the blue spot.
Translations
Adjective
spot (not comparable)
- (commerce, finance) Available on the spot; for immediate payment or delivery.
- spot wheat; spot cash; a spot contract
Translations
Anagrams
- OTPs, POST, POTS, PTOs, Post, TPOs, opts, post, post-, post., pots, stop, tops
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?sb??d?]
Etymology 1
From the verb spotte (“to mock”). Compare Old Norse spottr, German Spott.
Noun
spot c (singular definite spotten, not used in plural form)
- mockery, ridicule
- 2013, Jan Guillou, Vejen til Jerusalem, Modtryk ?ISBN
- Men at også den anden søn savnede alle mandlige dyder, var straks værre og gjorde spotten større.
- But that the other son, too, lacked all male virtues, was much worse and enlarged the mockery.
- Men at også den anden søn savnede alle mandlige dyder, var straks værre og gjorde spotten større.
- 2010, Tove Ditlevsen, Man gjorde et barn fortræd, Gyldendal A/S ?ISBN
- Hun havde råd til at smile igen, så ligegyldig var deres spot hende.
- She could afford to smile back, that was how little she cared about their ridicule.
- Hun havde råd til at smile igen, så ligegyldig var deres spot hende.
- 2015, Jørgen Christensen, Muhammed-tegningerne, demokratiet og sikkerhedspolitikken, BoD – Books on Demand ?ISBN, page 9
- I artiklen skrev kulturredaktør Flemming Rose bl.a., at muslimer måtte acceptere, at deres religiøse følelser blev udsat for hån, spot og latterliggørelse[sic]:...
- In the article, editor of culture Flemming Rose wrote, among other things, that muslims had to accept their religious feelings being made the object of mockery, derision and ridicule:...
- I artiklen skrev kulturredaktør Flemming Rose bl.a., at muslimer måtte acceptere, at deres religiøse følelser blev udsat for hån, spot og latterliggørelse[sic]:...
- 2014, Fjodor M. Dostojevskij, Minder fra dødens hus, Bechs Forlag - Viatone ?ISBN
- Først sporede man hos alle en heftig forbitrelse, derefter en dyb nedslåethed, og endelig syntes al sindsbevægelse at vige pladsen for hoverende spot.
- At first, one saw with everyone a hefty bitterness, then a deep sadness, and finally, all emotion seemed to recede, making way for gloating mockery.
- Først sporede man hos alle en heftig forbitrelse, derefter en dyb nedslåethed, og endelig syntes al sindsbevægelse at vige pladsen for hoverende spot.
- 2013, Jan Guillou, Vejen til Jerusalem, Modtryk ?ISBN
Inflection
Etymology 2
From English spot.
Noun
spot c or n (singular definite spotten or spottet, plural indefinite spot or spots)
- spotlight
- 1982, Lene H. Bagger, Idioterne, p. 179
- I millisekundet hvor lyset satte spots på hendes uforberedte ansigt, røbede det hende
- In the short moment when the light turned the spotlight on her unprepared face, it revealed her
- I millisekundet hvor lyset satte spots på hendes uforberedte ansigt, røbede det hende
- 1982, Lene H. Bagger, Idioterne, p. 179
- spot (short advertisement in radio or TV)
- 2012, Jyllands-Posten
- Lego meddeler, at deres juleomsætning overgik alle forventninger på grund af spottene i TV 2
- LEGO informs that their Christmas sale surpassed all expectations due to the spots on TV 2
- Lego meddeler, at deres juleomsætning overgik alle forventninger på grund af spottene i TV 2
- 2012, Jyllands-Posten
Inflection
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
spot
- imperative of spotte
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch spot, from Old Dutch *spot, from Proto-Germanic *spuþþaz.
Noun
spot m (uncountable)
- mockery
- Synonyms: spotternij, plagerij, pesterij
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English spot.
Noun
spot m (plural spots, diminutive spotje n)
- spot; a spotlight.
- spot; a brief segment on television.
Anagrams
- post, stop
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English spot.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp?t/
Noun
spot m (plural spots)
- (physics) light spot
- blip (on radar)
- (cinematography, theater) spotlight, spot
- (surfing) area
- (television) spot; a brief segment on television.
Further reading
- “spot” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- pots, stop
Indonesian
Etymology
From English spot.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?sp?t]
- Hyphenation: spot
Noun
spot
- (colloquial) spot, a location or area.
Further reading
- “spot” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
Etymology
From English spot.
Noun
spot m (invariable)
- spot (theatrical light; luminous point; brief radio or TV advertisment)
Anagrams
- post, stop
Further reading
- spot in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *spot, from Proto-Germanic *sputtaz.
Noun
spot m or n
- joke, jest
- mockery, derision
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
- spotten
Descendants
- Dutch: spot
Further reading
- “spot”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “spot”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English spot (“brief advertisement”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp?t/
Noun
spot m inan
- (neologism) spot, a short broadcast in television
Usage notes
Used for all short informational and promotional broadcasts, such as public service announcements, social campaigns, election ads and advertisements. The native counterpart reklama is restricted to advertisements.
Declension
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
spot m (genitive singular spoit, plural spotan)
- spot, stain
- spot, place
Synonyms
- (place): bad
Derived terms
- spot dall
Spanish
Noun
spot m (plural spots)
- advert, ad
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English sport.
Noun
spot
- sport
Volapük
Noun
spot (nominative plural spots)
- sport
Declension
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