chili vs pickle

chili

noun
  • The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used in cooking. 

  • Cincinnati chili. 

  • Powdered chili pepper, used as a spice or flavouring in cooking. 

  • A spicy stew of chicken or paneer, capsicum and onion, eaten as an appetizer. 

  • A dish made with chili peppers and other ingredients, such as beans and beef. 

pickle

noun
  • Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish. 

  • A difficult situation; peril. 

  • A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain. 

  • A mildly mischievous loved one. 

  • A penis. 

  • 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. 

  • A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown 

  • A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.) 

  • A pipe for smoking methamphetamine. 

  • The brine used for preserving food. 

  • 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. 

  • A rundown. 

  • A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup. 

verb
  • To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution. 

  • To eat sparingly. 

  • To pilfer. 

  • To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid. 

  • To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment. 

  • To serialize. 

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