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brine
[ brahyn ]
noun
- water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt.
- a salt and water solution for pickling.
- the sea or ocean.
- the water of the sea.
- Chemistry. any saline solution.
verb (used with object)
- to treat with or steep in brine.
brine
/ braɪn /
noun
- a strong solution of salt and water, used for salting and pickling meats, etc
- the sea or its water
- chem
- a concentrated solution of sodium chloride in water
- any solution of a salt in water
a potassium chloride brine
verb
- tr to soak in or treat with brine
brine
/ brīn /
- Water saturated with or containing large amounts of a salt, especially sodium chloride. The high salt content is usually due to evaporation or freezing.
- The water of a sea or ocean.
Derived Forms
- ˈbrinish, adjective
Other Words From
- brineless adjective
- briner noun
- brinish adjective
- brinish·ness noun
- un·brined adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of brine1
Word History and Origins
Origin of brine1
Example Sentences
At the salt flat, two companies pump out brine from below the surface.
As they had for generations, men stood in the brine, using wooden trowels to rake thick crusts of salt that formed on shallow pools of seawater, and then piled it high to dry into crystals.
Add the cabbage leaves and toss in the brine until well coated.
Calcium, magnesium, sodium, and other salt deposits are found globally on Mars, and previous experiments suggest that brines can easily form in subpolar regions there.
In the past month, it has pumped an average of nearly 1,400 gallons of oil and brine a day out of a cistern it installed there.
Dumping the brine from Point A into Point B is likely to cause lasting ecological damage.
Here, people came to let an old, still-nagging wound soak in cinematic brine.
Along with jungle rot and sea brine, menace hung in the moist air.
I buy a farm-raised free-range turkey that I usually brine before roasting.
The floors and steps are wet and slippery with brine and with the blood of herrings dripping down from one floor to another.
Rub thoroughly with strong brine, or a solution of sal ammoniac dissolved in eight times its weight of water.
Into one arm of the tube containing the brine I now carefully pour pure water.
By fixing my gaze on the ink mark on the glass I also observed that the brine in the opposing tube was rising.
The brine is of greater specific gravity than the pure water; the pressure of the heavier fluid forces the lighter up in the tube.
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