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brine

[ brahyn ]

noun

  1. water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt.
  2. a salt and water solution for pickling.
  3. the sea or ocean.
  4. the water of the sea.
  5. Chemistry. any saline solution.


verb (used with object)

, brined, brin·ing.
  1. to treat with or steep in brine.

brine

/ braɪn /

noun

  1. a strong solution of salt and water, used for salting and pickling meats, etc
  2. the sea or its water
  3. chem
    1. a concentrated solution of sodium chloride in water
    2. any solution of a salt in water

      a potassium chloride brine

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verb

  1. tr to soak in or treat with brine
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

brine

/ brīn /

  1. Water saturated with or containing large amounts of a salt, especially sodium chloride. The high salt content is usually due to evaporation or freezing.
  2. The water of a sea or ocean.


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Derived Forms

  • ˈbrinish, adjective
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Other Words From

  • brineless adjective
  • briner noun
  • brinish adjective
  • brinish·ness noun
  • un·brined adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of brine1

First recorded before 1000; Middle English; Old English brȳne; cognate with Dutch brijn
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Word History and Origins

Origin of brine1

Old English brīne ; related to Middle Dutch brīne , Old Slavonic bridŭ bitter, Sanskrit bibhrāya burnt
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Example Sentences

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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