pickling

pickle | American Dictionary

pickle
noun[ C ]
us/ˈpɪk·əl/
a cucumber (= a green, tube-shaped vegetable) that has been preserved in a liquid containing salt and other spices or vinegar:
a sweet/dill pickle

pickled

adjectiveus/ˈpɪk·əld/
pickled tomatoes/herring
pickle
verb[ T ]
us/ˈpɪk·əl/
to preserve in a liquid containing salt or vinegar

Examples of pickle

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The consistency of pickling with unpickling is ensured by tying the two together in a pickler/unpickler pair.
The main drawback of this approach is the lack of programmer control over how values get pickled.
The island had buildings for baking, meat dressing, pickling, barrel-making, clothing production, and a number of warehouses.
The most practical method of preventing human infection is to avoid eating raw, freshly pickled, or undercooked freshwater fish.
Now this is a rough sleeper who doesn't have a watch, whose head's absolutely pickled with alcohol, so he does not remember times for appointments.
A gallon jar of pickles is quite the sight to see.
In industrialised countries consumers no longer require the majority of foods to have a shelf life of several months at ambient temperature, such as that offered by canning and pickling.
However, in this case the patinated metal is zinc, which would not be expected to turn black on pickling as zinc has no black corrosion products.
The most plausible explanation for our -ic and -ical pickle is that we are witnessing language change at work: a messy but fascinating business.
The need to realize puzzle words as puddle words while target puddle words are realized as pickle words is at the heart of the problem.
The pickle and unpickle functions take an additional parameter for the initial state, discarding the final state on completion.
The import of meat has largely increased—there is no doubt about that—and, as a consequence, the demand for pickled herrings is being reduced.
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