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What is the noun for pickle?

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pickle
  1. A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
  2. (Often in plural: pickles), any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
  3. The brine used for preserving food.
  4. A difficult situation, peril.
  5. (affectionate) A mildly mischievous loved one.
  6. (baseball) A rundown.
  7. A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
  8. (slang) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
  9. (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.
  10. In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.
  11. Synonyms:
  12. Examples:
    1. “He pulled a pickle out of the jar and tasted it, remembering in a sudden rush the pickles he loved as a boy.”
      “She also admitted that she rarely cooks a meal for herself, and if she does it is likely to be cheese on toast with pickle.”
      “Leave the meat in the pickle liquid for three days. Keep the pickling mixture.”
pickle
  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.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “He pulled a pickle out of the jar and tasted it, remembering in a sudden rush the pickles he loved as a boy.”
      “She also admitted that she rarely cooks a meal for herself, and if she does it is likely to be cheese on toast with pickle.”
      “Leave the meat in the pickle liquid for three days. Keep the pickling mixture.”
pickling
  1. An instance of processing something in brine or other solution.
  2. A process by which the oxide scale on steel (especially stainless steels) is chemically removed (by strong acids).
  3. Synonyms:
picklings
pickles
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