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BRINE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

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)

Derivation:

brine (soak in brine)

briny (slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Water containing salts

Example:

the water in the ocean is all saltwater

Synonyms:

brine; saltwater; seawater

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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"):

atomic number 35; Br; bromine (a nonmetallic heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens; found in sea water)

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 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 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))

common salt; sodium chloride (a white crystalline solid consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl))

calcium chloride (a deliquescent salt; used in de-icing and as a drying agent)

evaporite (the sediment that is left after the evaporation of seawater)

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)

Derivation:

brine (soak in brine)

briny (slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water))

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

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

Derivation:

brine (a strong solution of salt and water used for pickling)

brine (water containing salts)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The results of the study were confirmed by using different methods like the massive sequencing of genetic markers to detect and classify microorganisms, microbial culture attempts, fluorescent flow cytometry to identify individual cells, chemical analysis of brines and scanning electron microscopy combined with X-ray spectroscopy.

(Place discovered on earth with no microbial life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The Macedonia was now but a mile away, the black smoke pouring from her funnel at a right angle, so madly she raced, pounding through the sea at a seventeen-knot gait—’Sky-hooting through the brine, as Wolf Larsen quoted while gazing at her.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Brines in the lake bottoms retain DBC whose woody signature indicates the source is likely to have been burning — such as wildfires and other natural events — at lower latitudes as many as 2,500 years ago or more.

(Antarctic lakes are a repository for ancient soot, NSF)

Stamenković et al's research provides a way for oxygen to get into the brines without algae or photosynthesis.

(Simple animals could live in Martian brines, Wikinews)

The density indicated for this brine would give the ocean a salt content roughly equal to the saltiest bodies of water on Earth.

(Ocean on Saturn moon could be as salty as the Dead Sea, NASA)

They indicate that conditions at the rover's near-equatorial location were favorable for small quantities of brine to form during some nights throughout the year, drying out again after sunrise.

(Mars Rover's Weather Data Bolster Case for Brine, NASA)

The team also found evidence that brines flow towards the Antarctic coast from roughly 18 kilometers (11 miles) inland, eventually discharging into the Southern Ocean, a biologically rich body of water that encircles Antarctica.

(Discovered deep under Antarctic surface: Extensive, salty aquifer and potentially vast microbial habitat, NSF)

The thought of Mrs. O'Gall and Bitternutt Lodge struck cold to my heart; and colder the thought of all the brine and foam, destined, as it seemed, to rush between me and the master at whose side I now walked, and coldest the remembrance of the wider ocean—wealth, caste, custom intervened between me and what I naturally and inevitably loved.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Lopez Garcia said, After analyzing many more samples than in previous works, with adequate controls so as not to contaminate them and a well-calibrated methodology, we have verified that there’s no microbial life in these salty, hot and hyperacid pools or in the adjacent magnesium-rich brine lakes.

(Place discovered on earth with no microbial life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Stamenković et al found oxygen levels throughout Mars would be high enough for the least demanding aerobic (oxygen using) microbes, for all the brines they considered, and all the methods of calculation.

(Simple animals could live in Martian brines, Wikinews)