advantage vs pickle

advantage

noun
  • The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game. 

  • Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit 

  • The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position. 

  • Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable or chance to success, or to any desired end. 

  • Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen). 

verb
  • to do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of 

  • to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to 

pickle

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

  • 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. 

  • Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish. 

  • 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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