(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.
Python
Definition:
(n.) Any species of very large snakes of the genus Python, and allied genera, of the family Pythonidae. They are nearly allied to the boas. Called also rock snake.
(n.) A diviner by spirits.
Example Sentences:
(1) The film was shot in Monastir, Tunisia, for $4m, with financing from George Harrison's HandMade Films company, and each of the Pythons plays at least three roles.
(2) Water snakes (Natrix natrix), rat snakes (Ptyas korros), cobras (Naja naja), pythons (Python molurus), tortoises (Kachuga sp.
(3) One is left with the impression that most of the group's members were, at various times, ready to put their Python days behind them.
(4) This classification renders it likely that the absence of a lateral focus of termination as well as the absence of a rubrospinal tract in the Python, is correlated to the absence of limbs.
(5) It was on the set of The Frost Report that production staff began to refer to Barker and Corbett as "the two Ronnies", while the writing team included Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, and Eric Idle – every Monty Python member bar Terry Gilliam – as well as Marty Feldman and lead writer Antony Jay, who went on to create Yes, Minister.
(6) Based on Terry Deary’s children’s publishing franchise, its Python-esque sketches won its numerous Bafta awards and a devoted fanbase among adults as well as younger viewers.
(7) The film was backed by an ingenious advertising campaign in which each Python recruited either a relative or friend (Gilliam's mum, Michael Palin's dentist) to present their own radio spot.
(8) Her most memorable film role to date has been dancing with a python in a state of undress in the vampire movie From Dusk Till Dawn.
(9) The crisis in the Socialist Workers party appears to confirm every one of the worst comic clichés about all that lies left of Jon Cruddas , as if the party's central committee were specifically aiming at eliciting unfunny Python comparisons.
(10) Natasha Orekhova, 26, a public relations specialist with a real estate firm, stood next to a friend who carried a fork with a pretend snake spiked on its tines, a reference to Putin calling the protesters Bandar-logs, the monkeys hypnotised by a python in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book.
(11) Despite offers, the Pythons are not taking the show on the road, but Palin has announced his own solo tour in September.
(12) The activated partial thromboplastin time was shorter than was that of human plasma, thus implying the presence of prothrombin in python plasma; however, this protein could be demonstrated only in trace amounts.
(13) While he was looking, I got a call from John Howard Davies, who was directing the first five episodes of this BBC series called Monty Python's Flying Circus , and he cast me in four of them.
(14) The Pythons never stopped admiring their own cleverness long enough to create a single real, flawed character.
(15) Then just as I think I've shaken off the old ball and chain, Python came knocking again.
(16) Idle received notes of encouragement and constructive criticism of the script from the Pythons, but for the most part they have been operating on the assumption that this is Idle's project, for better or worse.
(17) Both harangued Brian from the outset calling it "a squalid little film" and "tenth rate"; no amount of measured argument on the Pythons part would dissuade the pious double act of their firmly held belief that Life of Brian mocked Christ.
(18) Michael Palin has said that a lot of Monty Python's material was "crap", in an interview with the Telegraph .
(19) One of Williams’ final films will be Absolutely Anything, a zany sci-fi comedy starring the Monty Python team alongside Simon Pegg, with Williams voicing a dog.
(20) He also produced this effect in some of his sculptures, for example Untitled (Funerary Box for a Lime Green Python) (1954), where a pair of solemn-looking palm leaves gives the work a consciously ritualistic tone.