The difference between Dilemma and Pickle
When used as nouns, dilemma means a circumstance in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives that seem equally undesirable, whereas pickle means a cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
Pickle is also verb with the meaning: to preserve food in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
check bellow for the other definitions of Dilemma and Pickle
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Dilemma as a noun:
A circumstance in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives that seem equally undesirable.
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Dilemma as a noun:
A difficult circumstance or problem.
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Dilemma as a noun (logic):
A type of syllogism of the form "if A is true then B is true; if C is true then D is true; either A or C is true; therefore either B or D is true".
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Dilemma as a noun (rhetoric):
Offering to an opponent a choice between two (equally unfavorable) alternatives.
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Pickle as a noun:
A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
Examples:
"A pickle goes well with a hamburger."
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Pickle as a noun (often, in the plural):
Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
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Pickle as a noun:
The brine used for preserving food.
Examples:
"This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into."
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Pickle as a noun (informal):
A difficult situation; peril.
Examples:
"The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off."
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Pickle as a noun (affectionate):
A mildly mischievous loved one.
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Pickle as a noun (baseball):
A rundown.
Examples:
"Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third."
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Pickle as a noun:
A children's game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
Examples:
"The boys played pickle in the front yard for an hour."
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Pickle as a noun (slang):
A penis.
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Pickle as a noun (slang):
A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
Examples:
"Load some shards in that pickle."
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Pickle as a noun (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.
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Pickle as a noun:
In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.
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Pickle as a verb (transitive, ergative):
To preserve food in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
Examples:
"We pickled the remainder of the crop."
"These cucumbers pickle very well."
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Pickle as a verb (transitive):
To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
Examples:
"The crew will pickle the fittings in the morning."
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Pickle as a verb (programming):
To serialize.
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Pickle as a noun (Northern England, Scotland):
A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
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Pickle as a noun (Northern England, Scotland):
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.
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Pickle as a verb (Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive):
To eat sparingly.
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Pickle as a verb (Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive):
To pilfer.