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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Food, dish picklepick‧le1 /ˈpɪkəl/ noun 1 [countable, uncountable] British EnglishDFF a thick cold sauce that is made from pieces of vegetables preserved in vinegar . It is usually eaten with cold meat or cheese cheese and pickle sandwiches a selection of cold meats and pickles2 Image of pickle [countable] American EnglishDFF a cucumber preserved in vinegar or salt water, or a piece of this SYN gherkin British English3 → be in a (pretty) pickle Examples from the Corpuspickle• I thought I knew enough about eating a pickle without doing any fancy research.• He was likely in a pickle, what with Uncle Dan being ill and just one maid left to do the lot.• Dill and pickles, for example, are a strange combination, as is horseradish and roast beef.• They shared George's ham and pickle rolls and Leon's dry vanilla-tasting cake and chocolate.• a dill pickle• Corned beef is prepared by the curing of brisket, plate, and rump cuts from fairly high-grade beef carcasses in pickle.• This I corrected in a grocery store, piled with butter and big cheeses and shelves of pickles and bread.• At both lunch and dinner, a small salad, miso soup, pickles and rice are included.• Since then she had learned that pickle or sauce was a very rare treat.Related topics: Cooking picklepickle2 verb [transitive] DFCto preserve food in vinegar or salt water→ See Verb table Examples from the Corpuspickle• This is avidly collected by the locals as it is delicious boiled and pickled.• I had been resisting the whole idea of focus groups-when you went out and talked to pickle eaters.• I wondered if there might be a pickled heart tucked in among all the livers, kidneys, and spleens.• Green olives have to be treated in a soda solution to soften them before they are ready for pickling in brine.• We're pickled in our own solution.• Smell of beer and pickled meat.• pickled onions • From my childhood I remember being told that the way to improve your conkers was to pickle them in vinegar.Origin pickle1 (1300-1400) Probably from Middle Dutch pekel, peekel
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pickle
Simple Form
Present
I, you, we, they pickle
he, she, it pickles
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Past
I, you, he, she, it, we, they pickled
Present perfect
I, you, we, they have pickled
he, she, it has pickled
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they had pickled
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will pickle
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have pickled
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Continuous Form
Present
I am pickling
he, she, it is pickling
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you, we, they are pickling
Past
I, he, she, it was pickling
you, we, they were pickling
Present perfect
I, you, we, they have been pickling
he, she, it has been pickling
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been pickling
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be pickling
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been pickling
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