Relish vs. Pickle — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Relish and Pickle
ADVERTISEMENT
Compare with Definitions
Relish
A relish is a cooked and pickled product made of chopped vegetables, fruits, pickles or herbs and is a food item typically used as a condiment or as a salsa to enhance a staple. Examples are chutneys and the North American relish, a pickled cucumber jam eaten with hot dogs or hamburgers.
Pickle
A relish consisting of vegetables or fruit preserved in vinegar or brine
Cheese and pickle
Assorted pickles
Relish
Hearty enjoyment or appreciation
"pausing with the relish of a man who knows he's about to get off a zinger" (Tad Friend).
Pickle
A difficult situation
I am in a pickle
Relish
Something that lends pleasure or zest
The fact that the opposing team is our longtime rival was an added relish to our victory.
ADVERTISEMENT
Pickle
Used as an affectionate form of address to a mischievous child
‘All right, me pickle’, said Dad
Relish
A keen liking for something
A relish for adventure.
Pickle
An acid solution for cleaning metal objects.
Relish
A spicy or savory condiment or appetizer, such as chutney or olives.
Pickle
Preserve (food or other perishable items) in vinegar or brine
Fish pickled in brine
Relish
A condiment of chopped sweet pickles.
Pickle
Immerse (a metal object) in an acid or other chemical solution for cleaning
The steel sheet is first pickled in acid to remove all oxides
Relish
The flavor of a food, especially when appetizing.
Pickle
An edible product, such as a cucumber, that has been preserved and flavored in a solution of brine or vinegar.
Relish
A trace or suggestion of a pleasurable quality.
Pickle
A solution of brine or vinegar, often spiced, for preserving and flavoring food.
Relish
To take keen pleasure in; enjoy fully
Relished every minute of their vacation.
Pickle
A chemical solution, such as an acid, that is used as a bath to remove scale and oxides from the surface of metals before plating or finishing.
Relish
To be pleased with or look forward to
I don't relish speaking with that student's parents about his behavior.
Pickle
(Informal) A disagreeable or troublesome situation; a plight.
Relish
(Archaic) To give spice or flavor to.
Pickle
(Baseball) A rundown.
Relish
(Archaic) To have a pleasing or distinctive taste.
Pickle
To preserve or flavor (food) in a solution of brine or vinegar.
Relish
A pleasant taste.
Pickle
To treat (metal) in a chemical bath.
Relish
Enjoyment; pleasure.
Pickle
A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
A pickle goes well with a hamburger.
Relish
A quality or characteristic tinge.
Pickle
Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
Relish
(followed by "for") A taste (for); liking (of); fondness.
Pickle
A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.
Relish
A cooked or pickled sauce, usually made with vegetables or fruits, generally used as a condiment.
Pickle
The brine used for preserving food.
This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into.
Relish
In a wooden frame, the projection or shoulder at the side of, or around, a tenon, on a tenoned piece.
Pickle
(informal) A difficult situation; peril.
The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off.
Relish
Something that is greatly liked or savoured.
Pickle
(affectionate) A mildly mischievous loved one.
Relish
(transitive) To taste or eat with pleasure, to like the flavor of
Pickle
(baseball) A rundown.
Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.
Relish
(transitive) To take great pleasure in.
He relishes their time together.
I don't relish the idea of going out tonight.
Pickle
(uncountable) A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
The boys played pickle in the front yard for an hour.
Relish
To taste; to have a specified taste or flavour.
Pickle
(slang) A penis.
Relish
(transitive) To give a taste to; to cause to taste nice, to make appetizing.
Pickle
(slang) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
Load some shards in that pickle.
Relish
To give pleasure.
Pickle
(metalworking) 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.
Relish
To taste or eat with pleasure; to like the flavor of; to partake of with gratification; hence, to enjoy; to be pleased with or gratified by; to experience pleasure from; as, to relish food.
Now I begin to relish thy advice.
He knows how to prize his advantages, and to relish the honors which he enjoys.
Pickle
In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.
Relish
To give a relish to; to cause to taste agreeably.
A savory bit that served to relish wine.
Pickle
A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
Relish
To have a pleasing or appetizing taste; to give gratification; to have a flavor.
Had I been the finder-out of this secret, it would not have relished among my other discredits.
A theory, which, how much soever it may relish of wit and invention, hath no foundation in nature.
Pickle
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.
Relish
A pleasing taste; flavor that gratifies the palate; hence, enjoyable quality; power of pleasing.
Much pleasure we have lost while we abstainedFrom this delightful fruit, nor known till nowTrue relish, tasting.
When liberty is gone,Life grows insipid, and has lost its relish.
Pickle
To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
We pickled the remainder of the crop.
These cucumbers pickle very well.
Relish
Savor; quality; characteristic tinge.
It preserve some relish of old writing.
Pickle
(transitive) To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning.
Relish
A taste for; liking; appetite; fondness.
A relish for whatever was excelent in arts.
I have a relish for moderate praise, because it bids fair to be j dicious.
Pickle
To serialize.
Relish
That which is used to impart a flavor; specifically, something taken with food to render it more palatable or to stimulate the appetite; a condiment.
Pickle
(historical) To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
Relish
The projection or shoulder at the side of, or around, a tenon, on a tenoned piece.
Pickle
To eat sparingly.
Relish
Vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment
Pickle
To pilfer.
Relish
Spicy or savory condiment
Pickle
See Picle.
Relish
The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
Pickle
A solution of salt and water, in which fish, meat, etc., may be preserved or corned; brine.
Relish
Derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in;
She relished her fame and basked in her glory
Pickle
Any article of food which has been preserved in brine or in vinegar.
Pickle
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.
Pickle
A troublesome child; as, a little pickle.
Pickle
To preserve or season in pickle; to treat with some kind of pickle; as, to pickle herrings or cucumbers.
Pickle
To give an antique appearance to; - said of copies or imitations of paintings by the old masters.
Pickle
Vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar
Pickle
Informal terms for a difficult situation;
He got into a terrible fix
He made a muddle of his marriage
Pickle
Preserve in a pickling liquid
Share Your Discovery
Previous Comparison
Kling vs. KerlixNext Comparison
Access vs. Asset