The difference between Pickle and Scrape

When used as nouns, pickle means a cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup, whereas scrape means a broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).

When used as verbs, pickle means to preserve food in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution, whereas scrape means to draw an object, especially a sharp or angular one, along (something) while exerting pressure.

check bellow for the other definitions of Pickle and Scrape

  1. 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."

  2. Pickle as a noun (often, in the plural):

    Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.

  3. 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."

  4. Pickle as a noun (informal):

    A difficult situation; peril.

    Examples:

    "The climber found himself in a pickle when one of the rocks broke off."

  5. Pickle as a noun (affectionate):

    A mildly mischievous loved one.

  6. Pickle as a noun (baseball):

    A rundown.

    Examples:

    "Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third."

  7. 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."

  8. Pickle as a noun (slang):

    A penis.

  9. Pickle as a noun (slang):

    A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.

    Examples:

    "Load some shards in that pickle."

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  1. 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."

  2. 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."

  3. Pickle as a verb (programming):

    To serialize.

  1. Pickle as a noun (Northern England, Scotland):

    A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)

  2. 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.

  1. Pickle as a verb (Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive):

    To eat sparingly.

  2. Pickle as a verb (Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive):

    To pilfer.

  1. Scrape as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To draw an object, especially a sharp or angular one, along (something) while exerting pressure.

    Examples:

    "Her fingernails scraped across the blackboard, making a shrill sound."

    "Scrape the chewing gum off with a knife."

  2. Scrape as a verb (transitive):

    To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.

    Examples:

    "She tripped on a rock and scraped her knee."

  3. Scrape as a verb (transitive):

    To barely manage to achieve.

    Examples:

    "I scraped a pass in the exam."

  4. Scrape as a verb (transitive):

    To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.

    Examples:

    "Just use whatever you can scrape together."

  5. Scrape as a verb (computing):

    To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.

  6. Scrape as a verb:

    To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.

    Examples:

    "He scraped and saved until he became rich."

  7. Scrape as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.

  8. Scrape as a verb:

    To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.

  9. Scrape as a verb:

    To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Macaulay"

  1. Scrape as a noun:

    A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).

    Examples:

    "He fell on the sidewalk and got a scrape on his knee."

  2. Scrape as a noun:

    A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.

    Examples:

    "He got in a scrape with the school bully."

  3. Scrape as a noun:

    An awkward set of circumstances.

    Examples:

    "I'm in a bit of a scrape — I've no money to buy my wife a birthday present."

  4. Scrape as a noun (British, slang):

    A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.

  5. Scrape as a noun:

    A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.

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