Difference between Cornichon and Pickle

What is the difference between Cornichon and Pickle?

Cornichon as a noun is a pickled gherkin cucumber while Pickle as a noun is a cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.

Cornichon

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A pickled gherkin cucumber

Pickle

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.(Often in plural: pickles), any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.The brine used for preserving food.A difficult situation, peril.An affectionate term for a mildly mischievous loved oneA rundown.A children's game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundownA penis.A kernel, grainA bit, small quantity

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To preserve food in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.To serialize.

Example sentence: The fact that they're a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that it's National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.

We hope you now know whether to use Cornichon or Pickle in your sentence.

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