(v. t.) A solution of salt and water, in which fish, meat, etc., may be preserved or corned; brine.
(v. t.) Vinegar, plain or spiced, used for preserving vegetables, fish, eggs, oysters, etc.
(v. t.) Any article of food which has been preserved in brine or in vinegar.
(v. t.) 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 color.
(v. t.) A troublesome child; as, a little pickle.
(v. t.) To preserve or season in pickle; to treat with some kind of pickle; as, to pickle herrings or cucumbers.
(v. t.) To give an antique appearance to; -- said of copies or imitations of paintings by the old masters.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pickles said that to restore its public standing, the corporation needed to be more transparent, including opening itself up to freedom of information requests.
(2) And any Labour commitment on spending is fatally undermined by their deficit amnesia.” Davey widened the attack on the Tories, following a public row this week between Clegg and Theresa May over the “snooper’s charter”, by accusing his cabinet colleague Eric Pickles of coming close to abusing his powers by blocking new onshore developments against the wishes of some local councils.
(3) Mallon's finance and resources director, Paul Slocombe, thinks Pickles's argument is "slightly disingenuous" because the funding was part of the last spending review, which ends on 31 March.
(4) Dietary recommendations for cancer prevention advise reduced intake of fat; increased intake of fruits, vegetables, and grains; and moderate intake of alcohol and salt-cured, salt-pickled, and smoked foods.
(5) Pickles says he wants a high take-up of the council tax freeze since it will help council taxpayers with their cost of living, "bearing in mind that average council tax bills are more expensive than utility bills".
(6) Pickles said he would also be making an order under the Local Government Act 2000 to compel Rotherham council to hold all-out elections in 2016 and every fourth year thereafter.
(7) However, I have heard nothing from secretary of state Eric Pickles in the house of commons that gives me any comfort.
(8) The castings were cleaned by pickling or sandblasting and placed on their respective dies.
(9) Recently the company had to agree to a sales target with banks as part of a refinancing of its debt burden, which had come down to less than £1bn after the sale of Branston Pickle to Japanese Mizkan Group and the sale of Hartley's jams and Sun-Pat peanut butter to US company Hain Celestial.
(10) In a sign of the low esteem the celebrity wing of Hacked Off is held in cabinet circles the communities secretary, Eric Pickles, referred to Hugh Grant as "the leader of the opposition Lord Grant of Rodeo Drive".
(11) A spokesman for Pickles said: "We are fully supportive of all the government's policies on benefits.
(12) Someone, somewhere, must stand up to the bullying, hectoring hypocrisy of Cameron's "localism" act and his henchman, Pickles, in full "screw democracy" mode.
(13) We deplore the proposal of the secretary of state Eric Pickles to “take over” the democratically elected council in Tower Hamlets ( Report , 5 November).
(14) The future James I resorted to them on several occasions in Scotland: in 1600, for instance, he had two alleged assassins pickled in whisky, vinegar and allspice, put on trial, and then mutilated.
(15) Anisakiasis is a zoonotic disease caused by the ingestion of larval nematodes in raw seafood dishes such as sushi, sashimi, ceviche, and pickled herring.
(16) This study shows that eating a sufficient quantity of certain types of pickles causes marked changes in the human stomach.
(17) It is clear the teenagers – including Pickles – love Matthew Burton, one of the school's assistant heads, who, with his skinny-fitting suit, brown brogues, shaggy hair and loose floral tie, looks more like the singer in an indie group than an English teacher.
(18) But his remarks will be a serious embarrassment to the coalition after local government secretary Eric Pickles announced the most severe cuts in local government funding for a generation, with some of the poorest areas receiving the biggest reductions.
(19) The communities and local government secretary, Eric Pickles, met voters in the village of Hamble with the Tory candidate Maria Hutchings, who was forced to deny making potentially damaging remarks about immigration and gay people after launching her campaign on Friday.
(20) In so far as can be gleaned , the 120,000 families whose feral ways Mr Pickles and the prime minister like pointing to were totted up using outdated surveys concerned not with the school skiving, crime and loutishness that dominated yesterday's spin.
Prickle
Definition:
(n.) A little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal, the bark of a plant, etc.; a spine.
(n.) A kind of willow basket; -- a term still used in some branches of trade.
(n.) A sieve of filberts, -- about fifty pounds.
(v. t.) To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some peculiarities in the ultrastructure of these neurones were described as the presence of prickles, fringes.
(2) Single-unit sensory nerve recordings from the rabbit saphenous nerve were used to identify the receptors responsible for fabric-evoked prickle.
(3) Prickle cell masses invaded into the soft tissue in the deeper layer.
(4) In some of the distal and middle dendrites and dendritic spines [correction of prickles] in elderly ground squirrels there were plaques, composed of electron-dense material with structure similar to postsynaptic condensations, but without presynaptic specializations of chemical synapses.
(5) Desmosomes are most frequent in the prickle cell layer, where desmosome fields may occur, and in the lower functional cell layer.
(6) Membrane coating granules first reaching a maximum in the functional cell layer appeared in the upper prickle cell layer and few persisted into the surface cells.
(7) Oral discomfort such as prickling and burning sensations, metallic and bad taste was rare in both diabetics and non-diabetics.
(8) Gap junctions (nexuses) were observed primarily in the basal and prickle cell layers.
(9) Beginning to feel the first prickles of boredom, I thought of young Nathan, for whom Minecraft was life, until it wasn't.
(10) The emigrating ERM from PDL explants, as well as occasional proliferating ERM within explants, consisted of two cell types--outer basal-like cells, as described above, and inner tonofilament-rich prickle-like cells, suggesting a propensity for differentiation of ERM.
(11) Three layers were identified, as in the light microscopy of the oesophageal epithelium: basal, prickle and funtional cell layers.
(12) This system was attached to the upper arms of young adult volunteers who increased the voltage of the rectangular electrical pulses supplied to the electrodes until a reproducible sharp prickling pain sensation was perceived.
(13) Various cells were observed in expanded intercellular spaces of basal cell and prickle cell layers.
(14) CRBP concentrations were highest in maturing keratinocytes within the prickle cell layers of normal mucosa and in laryngeal papillomas, as estimated on the basis of immunoreactivity to CRBP.
(15) The fluid phase marker was taken up most avidly by the prickle cells but to a lesser extent in the functional layers and by basal cells.
(16) Light microscopical findings: Leukoplakia exhibited orthokeratinization and the thickening of prickle and corneal cell layers was seen.
(17) Prickling of the skin and hirsutism were common side-effects.
(18) In all sections of leukoplakia, the positive cells for EGFr were found in the prickle cell layer in addition to the basal cell layer.
(19) Each subject judged only one single pair with respect to which one tasted more fizzy ("spritziger"), dry ("trockener"), prickling ("prickelnder") and better ("besser").
(20) Untoward effects experienced in volunteers receiving BW 942C included heaviness in the limbs, nasal stuffiness, mouth dryness, facial flushing, skin rash, and prickling sensations.