different between vet vs pickle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

Clipping of veterinarian.

Noun

vet (plural vets)

1. (colloquial) A veterinarian or veterinary surgeon.

Derived terms

• vet tech

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of veteran.

Noun

vet (plural vets)

1. (colloquial, US) A veteran (a former soldier or other member of an armed forces).

Usage notes

Although veteran can be used in many contexts such as sports or business to describe someone with many years of experience, vet is usually used only for former military personnel.

Translations

Etymology 3

Possibly by analogy from Etymology 1, in the sense of "verifying the soundness [of an animal]"

Verb

vet (third-person singular simple present vets, present participle vetting, simple past and past participle vetted)

1. To thoroughly check or investigate particularly with regard to providing formal approval.

   The FBI vets all nominees to the Federal bench.

Synonyms

• evaluate

Derived terms

• vetter

Translations

References

OED2

Anagrams

• ETV, EVT, TeV, VTE, Vte

Albanian

Alternative forms

• vetë, vehte

Adjective

i vet

1. his, her or their own

   Aleksandri është me Albanin dhe qenin e vet.

   Aleksandër is with Alban and his (own) dog.

Usage notes

Used in contexts where i tij (“his”), i saj (“her”) or i tyre (“their”) would be ambiguous. In the example sentence above, if "e vet" were replaced with "e tij", it would more likely refer to Alban's dog. The use of "vet" removes this ambiguity.

Declension

See also

Blagar

Noun

vet

1. coconut

References

• A. Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Latin veto.

Noun

vet m (plural vets)

1. veto

Etymology 2

From Latin videte, second-person plural present imperative of vide? (“to see”). Compare French voici, voilà.

Adverb

vet

1. there is

   vet aquí

   here's

Related terms

• heus

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?v?t]

Noun

vet

1. genitive plural of veto

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch vet, from Old Dutch f?tit, fet, from Proto-West Germanic *faitid, originally a past participle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?t/
• Hyphenation: vet
• Rhymes: -?t

Adjective

vet (comparative vetter, superlative vetst)

1. fat
2. greasy
3. emphatical, (in print) bold

   Synonym: vetjes

4. (informal) cool

Inflection

Derived terms

• moddervet
• vetjes

Descendants

• Afrikaans: vet
• ? Papiamentu: vèt

Noun

vet n (plural vetten)

1. fat
2. grease

Derived terms

• braadvet
• buikvet
• frituurvet
• transvet
• vetdeeltje
• vetgans
• vetlaag
• vetlaars
• vetplant
• vetpot
• vetreserve
• vettig
• vetvrij
• vetzuur

Adverb

vet

1. (colloquial) very

   Hij is vet dik.

   He's very fat.

Anagrams

• evt.

Hungarian

Etymology

Of uncertain origin, perhaps from Proto-Finno-Ugric *wettä- (“to throw, fling, toss”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?v?t]
• Rhymes: -?t

Verb

vet

1. (transitive) to throw, cast
2. (transitive, intransitive) to sow

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

References

Further reading

• vet in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch f?tit, fet, from Proto-West Germanic *faitid, originally a past participle.

Adjective

vet

1. fat, large (of humans or animals)
2. (rich in) fat
3. fatty, greasy
4. fertile, rich in nutrients (of land)

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: vet
  • Afrikaans: vet
  • ? Papiamentu: vèt
• Limburgish: vèt

Noun

vet n

1. fat
2. grease

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: vet
• Limburgish: vèt

Further reading

• “vet (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “vet (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “vet (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “vet (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page II

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• veit

Verb

vet

1. present tense of vite

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

vet

1. imperative of veta and vete

Swedish

Verb

vet

1. present of veta; know, knows

2. imperative of veta.

Anagrams

• tve-

Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vit, from Proto-Germanic *witj?. Cognate with Gutnish vit, Elfdalian wit and Blekingian vôjt.

Noun

vet n

1. wits, reason

Related terms

• vetta
• vükk
• vitvilling

Etymology 2

From Old Norse væta, from Proto-Germanic *w?tij?.

Noun

vêt f

1. milk or other liquid eaten with porridge
2. humid weather

Etymology 3

From Old Norse væta, from Proto-Germanic *w?tijan?.

Verb

vêt (preterite vêtt, supine vett)

1. to wet, water

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)