Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or containing salt; salty.
- adj. Of or relating to chemical salts.
- n. A salt of magnesium or of the alkalis, used in medicine as a cathartic.
- n. A saline solution, especially one that is isotonic with blood and is used in medicine and surgery.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Consisting of salt or constituting salt: as, saline particles; saline substances.
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of salt; salty: as, a saline taste.
- n. A salt-spring, or a place where salt water is collected in the earth; a salt-marsh or -pit.
- Same as halophilous.
- n. One of the mineral salts, such as sodium or magnesium sulphate, used medicinally.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Consisting of salt, or containing salt.
- adj. Of the quality of salt; salty.
- n. A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.
- n. (Chem.) A crude potash obtained from beet-root residues and other similar sources.
- n. (Med. Chem.) A metallic salt; esp., a salt of potassium, sodium, lithium, or magnesium, used in medicine.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. containing salt
- n. an isotonic solution of sodium chloride and distilled water
Etymologies
- Latin salīnus, from sāl, salt; see sal- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Homeowners, too, have been making the switch to saline, which is about one-twelfth as salty as ocean water.”
The Wall Street Journal: Worth Their Salt? Pools Where Chlorine Isn't King
“These breast implants are available in a wide variety of shapes, types and sizes, and usually they will be made of an outer layer of silicone, and then are filled with either silicone gel or saline, which is salt water.”
“The Etosha Pan is almost devoid of macrophytic vegetation and is classified as a saline desert.”
“Before entering into a discussion of the question, which naturally arises at this point, as to how levity and gravity by their two possible ways of interaction - 'sulphurous' or 'saline' - determine the properties of so-called positive and negative electricity, we shall first study the third mode of generating electricity, namely, by electromagnetic induction.”
“The release of Miss Leighton has refocused attention on the daunting scale of the task facing police if they are to catch the person dubbed the 'saline serial killer'.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“After removing the radiation plaque from the treated eye, she flushes the oil away with saline, which is eventually replaced by the patient's natural fluids.”
“Winner receives copies of my books, copies of Patrick Smith's book, an empty 12-ounce bottle labeled "saline" that you can refill and get through any TSA security checkpoint, and a fake boarding pass on any flight for any date.”
“For me the issue of abortion is child abuse and murder by the worst form of torture possible, such as saline method.”
“According to The Washington Post, the Red Cross has been socked with a $1.7 million fine after several units of red blood cells were cleaned with the wrong kind of saline solution.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘saline’.
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EN - fine scholarly language
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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Salt
Words related to salt and saltiness.
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big book gre
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quality words
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(more or less) Temporary Urth List
Temporary list is temporary.
Collecting a few words here, which are then to be alloted to other lists.vassal, gnaw, putrescence, liege, pederasty, disseminate, loot, waning, fitful, hiatuse, plow, pious and 292 more...
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theastic's Words
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
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Tuesday words
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SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL S
saccharine, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, saga, sagacity, salacious, salient, saline, salivate, salutary, salvo, sanctimonious and 156 more...
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Sat Vocabulary List
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 2155 more...
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Pleasing words
A list of miscellaneous words, fitting in no exact theme, that I happen to enjoy.
portmanteau, aesthetic, deviation, conglomerate, treachery, soluble, bildungsroman, soliloquy, irrevocable, effervescent, phrontistery, aeipathy and 180 more...
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ash
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lines
line-know-of-them
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EricMinton's Favorite Words
This list includes some of my favorite words, graded by aroma, texture and mouthfeel.
comprise, elaborate, crystalline, transient, vitality, radiance, chromatic, smolder, coruscate, coarsen, artisan, plumage and 64 more...
Tweets
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- Peter Reading, Us in The Ship, from The Prison Cell and Barrel Mystery, 1976 Jun 23, 2008