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Relish vs. Pickle — What's the Difference?

Relish vs. Pickle — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Relish and Pickle

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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.
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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

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