BRINE
Dictionary entry overview: What does brine mean?
• BRINE (noun)
The noun BRINE has 2 senses:
1. water containing salts
2. a strong solution of salt and water used for pickling
Familiarity information: BRINE used as a noun is rare.
• BRINE (verb)
The verb BRINE has 1 sense:
1. soak in brine
Familiarity information: BRINE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BRINE (noun)
Meaning:
Water containing salts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
brine; saltwater; seawater
Context example:
the water in the ocean is all saltwater
Hypernyms ("brine" is a kind of...):
H2O; water (binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent)
Meronyms (substance of "brine"):
evaporite (the sediment that is left after the evaporation of seawater)
calcium chloride (a deliquescent salt; used in de-icing and as a drying agent)
common salt; sodium chloride (a white crystalline solid consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl))
atomic number 11; Na; sodium (a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt))
atomic number 19; K; potassium (a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite)
atomic number 53; I; iodin; iodine (a nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; used especially in medicine and photography and in dyes; occurs naturally only in combination in small quantities (as in sea water or rocks))
atomic number 35; Br; bromine (a nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens; found in sea water)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "brine"):
red tide (seawater that is discolored by large numbers of certain dinoflagellates that produce saxitoxin)
Meaning:
A strong solution of salt and water used for pickling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("brine" is a kind of...):
solution (a homogeneous mixture of two or more substances; frequently (but not necessarily) a liquid solution)
• BRINE (verb)
Meaning:
Soak in brine
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "brine" is one way to...):
douse; dowse; drench; soak; sop; souse (cover with liquid; pour liquid onto)
Domain category:
cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
