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🥒 Preserved in vinegar 💾 Serialized data
pickled

pickled

8.4
Data saved in a form a program can read to restore it later
  • adjective
  • /ˈpɪkəld/
  • Specialized
translation icon : serializado
  • If you receive a pickled object from an untrusted source, avoid unpickling it for security.

Examples

  • The pickled object can be restored to its original class with pickle.load after transmission.

  • During backup, engineers stored several pickled configurations as binary files for quick deployment.

  • The data was pickled for easy storage.

  • I saved the pickled object to the database.

  • The software requires you to save any pickled objects before closing the application.

  • By using a pickled file format, the program can efficiently transmit data over the network.

  • After the data was pickled, it was sent to the server for further processing.

Compounds

pickled herring
3 3.1

A herring kept in vinegar or salt water and eaten as food

Surface Forms

pickled positive

Morphology

pickled = pickle (semi-transparent) = pickle + ed

Formally built from 'pickle' + '-ed', but the computing sense is a specialized metaphorical extension (preserving state) that is not obvious to learners unfamiliar with programming.

Etymology

Pickled in computing borrows its name from food pickling: programmers 'preserve' an object by turning it into a saved form so it can be stored or sent and later 'restored'. So a pickled object is one that has been saved into that special form for later use.