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Pickle can be a noun or a verb.

pickle used as a noun:

  1. A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
    "A pickle goes well with a hamburger."
  2. (Often in plural: pickles), any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
  3. The brine used for preserving food.
    "This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into."
  4. A difficult situation, peril.
    "The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off."
  5. An affectionate term for a mildly mischievous loved one
  6. A rundown.
    "Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third."
  7. A children's game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
    "The boys played pickle in the front yard for an hour."
  8. A penis.
  9. A kernel, grain
  10. A bit, small quantity

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

pickle used as a verb:

  1. To preserve food in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
    "We pickled the remainder of the crop."
  2. To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
    "The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning."
  3. To serialize.

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

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What type of word is pickle?

As detailed above, 'pickle' can be a noun or a verb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: A pickle goes well with a hamburger.
  2. Noun usage: This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into.
  3. Noun usage: The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off.
  4. Noun usage: Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.
  5. Noun usage: The boys played pickle in the front yard for an hour.
  6. Verb usage: We pickled the remainder of the crop.
  7. Verb usage: The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of pickle are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of pickle, and guess at its most common usage.

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The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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