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Definitions: Saline |
SalineAdjective1. Containing salt; "a saline solution"; "salty tears". Noun1. An isotonic solution of sodium chloride and distilled water. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "saline" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | Term applied to soils inwhich an excess of salt has accumulated. Such soils are not suitable for vines. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | A solution of salt and water. (references) |
Medicine | Pertaining to salt. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A natural deposit of halite or of any other soluble salt; e.g., an evaporite. See also:salines b. An anglicized form of salina. In this usage, a saline may refer to various features such as a playa, a salt flat, a saltpan, a salt marsh, a salt lake, a salt pond, a salt well, or a saltworks c. Salt spring d. Salty; containing dissolved sodium chloride, e.g., an evaporite. See also:salines b. An anglicized form of salina. In this usage, a saline may refer to v f. Containing dissolved salts at concentrations great enough to allow the precipitation of sodium chloride; hypersaline g. Said of a taste resembling that of common salt, esp. in describing theproperties of a mineral. (references) |
Public Administration | Also normal saline. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Saline is a city in Washtenaw County, Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 8,034.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Saline, Louisiana."
Synonyms: SalineSynonyms: salty (adj), saline solution (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Saltiness | Adjective: salty, salt, saline, brackish, briny; salty as brine, salty as a herring, salty as Lot's wife. |
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Movie/TV Titles | Grande saline (1985) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Salt buildup from a 'saline seep' area. Saline seeps form when groundwater laden with salt percolates to the surface and then evaporates. The heavy consentrations of salt then kill grasses and expose rangeland to wind erosion.Credit: Tim McCabe. |  | [Teaching saline infusion].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Health | Saline nasal spray, which you can buy in a drug store, can give relief. (references) | |
Saline laxatives act like a sponge to draw water into the colon for easier passage of stool. (references) | ||
Standard therapy involves intravenous injections of hydrocortisone, saline (salt water), and dextrose (sugar). (references) | ||
Business | Another water quality problem of the highest priority is the discharge of saline water from Silesian coal mines into the Vistula and Odra Rivers. (references) | |
In addition, a number of quasi-government entities including the national oil company (Saudi Aramco), the Saudi Arabian Airlines, and the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) operate their own private communication networks. (references) | ||
Two large desalination plants are currently under construction, but they will cover only about 50% of the actual need. Treatment of the remaining water discharge, using other methods of saline water disposal (deep injections), as well as the disposal of residuals, still remains a problem. (references) | ||
Economic History | Saudi Arabia | The Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC), which is responsible for water desalination in Saudi Arabia, accounts for more than 70% of the total residential water supplies. (references) |
Bahrain | No tender documents have been issued as of May 2001. The government has had many problems with RO technology for large water facilities to treat its extremely saline water; it clearly prefers multi-stage flash (MSF) technology at this point. (references) | |
Saudi Arabia | These firms include the oil firm Saudi ARAMCO, the Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), the Saudi Telecommunications Company (STC), the Saudi Electricity Company (SEC), The Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia), the Saudi Arabian Public Transport Company (SAPTCO), The Saudi Mining Company (Maaden), and the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC). Prior to the oil boom in the 1970s, parts or all of many of these firms, including ARAMCO, were in private hands. (references) | |
Human Rights | Haiti | On November 2-4, violence in the Port-au-Prince slum of La Saline led to 4 deaths, 17 injuries, and the destruction of hundreds of homes. (references) |
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John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | We have neglected oceanography, saline water conversion, and the basic research that lies at the root of all progress. |
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| "Saline" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Saline" is used about 350 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 350 | 15,269 |
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1. Saline, LA (village, FIPS 67880) 2. Saline, MI (city, FIPS 71140) |
Expressions using "saline": Grand Saline ♦ lead saline oxid ♦ saline alkali soil ♦ Saline County ♦ saline deposits ♦ saline drip ♦ saline land ♦ saline soil ♦ saline solution ♦ saline water. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "saline": saline-intrusion. | |
Ending with "saline": less-saline, non-saline, partly-saline. | |
Containing "saline": non-saline alkali soil. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
saline michigan | 285 |
saline | 139 |
saline breast implant | 78 |
saline implant | 45 |
injection saline | 41 |
saline solution | 39 |
saline county | 30 |
normal saline | 22 |
hospital memorial saline | 20 |
saline infusion | 18 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "saline"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | solucion fiziologjik, tretësirë kripërash alkaline, purgativ (aperient, cathartic, depletive, depletory, purgative, purge), me kripëra (hard), kripore (salt marsh, saltern, saltworks), kripe, kripë spastruese, i njelmët (salt, salty), i kripur (corned, salt, salted, salty). (various references) | |
Arabic | ملحي, محلول مالح, محلول الملح, مالح (briny, salt, salty, savory, savoury), سبخة مالحة, بركة مالحة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | солна мина (salina), солено блато (salina, salt), солена почва (salina), соленист, солен (briny, corned, pickled, salt, salted, salty), сол (salt), салинен, физиологичен разтвор. (various references) | |
Chinese | 盐 (SALT, salts). (various references) | |
Czech | solný, slaný pramen. (various references) | |
Danish | saltholdig, salt-, salinsk, fysiologisk saltopløsning. (various references) | |
Dutch | salinisch, saline, zoutoplossing (brine, saline water, salt water), zouthoudend. (various references) | |
Farsi | محلول نمک , نمکین (Briny, Salty), نمک دار, شور (Briny, Craze, Emotion, Excitement, Rapture, Rut, Salty, Sensation), درجه شوری . (various references) | |
Finnish | suolainen (salt, salted, salty), fysiologinen keittosuolaliuos. (various references) | |
French | salin. (various references) | |
German | salzig (briny, salt, salted, saltily, salty), salzhaltig (briny, saliferous, salty), Saline (salt works, saltworks). (various references) | |
Greek | αλατούχος (saliferous). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מליח (herring, marinated, pickled, salty), מלוח (briny, salty), מלחית (saltwort), מלחי (salty). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sós (brackish, briny, in salt, pickled, poignant, salt, salty, savory, savoury), sótartalmú (salt). (various references) | |
Italian | salino. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 塩類溶液 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | え"るいようえき. (various references) | |
Korean | 염분 (salinity). (various references) | |
Manx | sollanagh (saltish, salty), sailjey (brackish, briny, corned, pickled, salt, salty). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alinesay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | salino (salt, salt marsh). (various references) | |
Romanian | sare metalicã, sare de magneziu, salin (salt), sãrat (briny, salt, salted, salty, steep), ocnã de sare, lac sãrat, care conţine sare. (various references) | |
Russian | солевой. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | soni napitak, soni, solana (saltern, saltworks), slatina (salt marsh), slani izvor, slan (briny, salt, salty). (various references) | |
Spanish | salino. (various references) | |
Swedish | salthaltig (salty), salt- (salt). (various references) | |
Turkish | tuzsu, tuzlu pınar, tuzlu (brackish, saliferous, salt, salted, salty), tuzla (salt marsh, salt pan, saltern, saltpan, saltworks), tuz niteliğindeki, tuz madeni (salt mine, salt pit), maden tuzu içeren, maden tuzu, maden tuzlu ilaç. (various references) | |
Turkmen | юor (salty). (various references) | |
Ukranian | сіль (salt), соляний (salt), солончак (salting), солоне озеро, солоний (briny, corned, pickled, salt, salt water, salted, salty). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | dung dịch muối đẳng trương. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "saline": salines. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "saline": hypersaline, messaline, nonsaline. (additional references) | |
Words containing "saline": messalines. (additional references) | |
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"Saline" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ashine, asine, Aslin, Asline, aspine, baline, calina, dalien, haline, isoline, Kalinke, maline, Nalini, saalian, Saarinen, sabine, Sailana, sailen, saille, saine, sainu, salan, Salanio, Salbin, saleen, salice, salie, salien, saliens, Salife, Saligna, Saliheen, Salin, Salinae, saliner, salinger, salint, salire, salive, Salkind, sallie, sallin, Sallinen, Salmina, Salojee, Salone, salpine, saluna, salvini, samine, Saolanum, sarine, sasine, Sasino, satine, Saulieu, savini, savino, Saylani, scalien, scaline, Scallini, sealine, Seleni, selin, selina, Selinker, senline, sexlife, Shalini, silane, Silanov, sileni, slaine, sline, slune, soilen, solune, Spallone, splane, sulin, Tselane, valine. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "saline" (pronounced sulē"n) |
| 4 | -u l ē" n | baleen, propylene, trampoline. |
| 3 | -l ē" n | clean, colleen, glean, lean, lien, Moline, spleen, unclean. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: aliens, alines, elains, lianes, silane. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-n-s" | |
-1 letter: aisle, alien, aline, anile, anils, anise, elain, elans, lanes, leans, lenis, liane, liens, lines, nails, slain, snail. | |
-2 letters: ails, ains, ales, anes, anil, anis, elan, ilea, isle, lain, lane, lase, lean, leas, leis, lens, lien, lies, line, lins, nail, nils, sail, sain, sale, sane, seal, sial, sine. | |
-3 letters: ail, ain, ais, ale, als, ane, ani, els, ens, ins, las, lea, lei, lie, lin, lis, nae, nil, sae, sal, sea, sei, sel, sen, sin. | |
-4 letters: ae, ai, al, an, as, el, en, es, in, is, la, li, na, ne, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-n-s" | |
+1 letter: ainsell, alevins, alexins, aliners, alkines, alpines, anisole, denials, elastin, elysian, entails, finales, inhales, inlaces, inulase, lawines, leasing, lesbian, linages, malines, menials, nailers, nailset, pineals, renails, salient, salines, saltine, sanicle, scaleni, sealing, seminal, silanes, slainte, snailed, spaniel, splenia, tenails, valines. | |
+2 letters: ailerons, ailments, ainsells, airlines, alanines, alexines, alienees, alieners, alienism, alienist, alienors, aligners, aliments, alnicoes, alumines, alunites, anilines, anisoles, annelids, bailsmen, baseline, bimensal, biplanes, calcines, canalise, capelins, carlines, dealings, delaines, eanlings, elapsing, elastins, elations, engrails, ensilage, entrails, explains, finagles, finalise, flamines, flavines, gainless, galleins, gasoline, gelatins, genitals, glassine, healings, hyalines, impanels, inflames, inflates, inhalers, inlayers, insanely, insolate, instable, insulate, inulases, islanded, islander, javelins, jawlines, kaolines, laciness, laminose, lanciers, landside, lankiest, latrines, lauwines, laziness, leadings, leanings, leashing, leasings, leavings, lesbians, lindanes, lineages, linesman, linkages, litanies, lunacies, manilles, maniples, manliest, marlines, melanics, melanins, melanism, melanist, meniscal, minerals, mislearn, nailsets, nargiles, nasalise, nasalize, opalines, painless, panelist, panicles, pantiles, pelicans, penalise, pinwales, plainest, pleasing, pralines, quinelas, rainless, ratlines, ravelins, realigns, relaxins, retinals, rinsable, salicine, salience, saliency, salients, salinize, saltines, sandlike, sandpile, sanicles, scenical, sealskin, semolina, sensilla, sepaline, shealing, shinleaf, signaled, signaler, siloxane, singable, sinkable, skiplane, slangier, sleaving, smaltine, snaglike, snarlier, sneakily, solanine, spaniels, spinulae, splenial, stealing, swanlike, toenails, trenails, uneasily, ventails, yealings. | |
+3 letters: abseiling, acroleins, airliners, airplanes, algerines, alginates, alienages, alienates, alienisms, alienists, alienness, alikeness, alimonies, aliveness, allanites, allergins, alliances, almonries, alongside, analcimes, analcites, analgesia, analgesic, analities, analogies, anelastic, angelfish, angelicas, anglesite, anglicise, anilities, anomalies, antipoles, antisleep, aphelions, arsenical, ashlering, asininely, athelings, auntliest, aventails, bailments, balconies, balkiness, balklines, balminess, banalizes, baseliner, baselines, biennales, biennials, bilanders, binnacles, bivalents, blindages, brainless, cagelings, calamines, calumnies, canailles, canalised, canalises, canalizes, canfields, canticles, censorial, cephalins, cisalpine, cisternal, clarinets, cleansing, clearings, coastline, dailiness, datelines, deadlines, delations, desalting, disentail, dismantle, draglines, dulcineas, earliness, elaterins, enamelist, enfilades, ensilaged, ensilages, enslaving, entailers, erosional, essential, filaments, filenames, finaglers, finalised, finalises, finalizes, flakiness, flaneries, flatlines, frailness, frauleins, gainliest, galenites, galvanise, gangliest, gantlines, gasolines, gelatines, gelations, geranials, geraniols, glassines, gleanings, gliadines, gnarliest, graplines, hailstone, hairlines, hanseling, headlines, inclasped, inelastic, inflamers, inflaters, inhaulers, inlanders, insolated, insolates, installed, installer, insulated, insulates, insurable, integrals, interlaps, interlays, internals, intervals, islanders, jangliest, javelinas, kephalins, lacewings, laitances, laminates, landlines, landmines, landsides, landsleit, landslide, laniaries, lankiness, lanolines, larcenies, larcenist, larkiness, latencies, latinizes, laundries, layerings, leakiness, learnings, legations, lemniscal, libelants, ligaments, linearise, lyonnaise, mainlines, maligners, malingers, manciples, mandibles, manliness, masculine, melamines, melanisms, melanists, melanites, melanizes, melanoids, mentalism, mentalist, mescaline, messaline, mishandle, mislearns, mislearnt, nailheads, narghiles, nargilehs, nasalised, nasalises, nasalized, nasalizes, nearliest, neoplasia, nonsaline, normalise, orientals, palatines, palinodes, panelings, panelists, panoplies, penalised, penalises, penalizes, penalties, peninsula, pieplants, pinelands, pinnacles, plainness, plainsmen, planished, planisher, planishes, pleadings, plebeians, pliancies, polonaise, quantiles, quinellas, quinielas, ravelings, realising, regionals, reinstall, relapsing, relations, releasing, reliances, resailing, rescaling, resealing, reslating, retinulas, sailplane, saintlier, saintlike, salicines, saliences, saliently, salinized, salinizes, salpinges, saltiness, sandflies, sandpiles, sapiently, scaliness, sciential, sealskins, searingly, sectional, selachian, semifinal, semilunar, seminally, semitonal, semolinas, sensillae, sensorial, serotinal, sessional, shaveling, shealings, shearling, shinleafs, sibilance, signalers, signalise, signalize, signalled, signaller, signalmen, silkaline, siloxanes, skiplanes, slangiest, slantwise, slavering, sloganize, smaltines, snaillike, snakelike, snarliest, solanines, spanglier, squealing, stainable, stainless, stealings, sterilant, subalpine, superlain, sylvanite, tailbones, taintless, talkiness, tangibles, tangliest, tantalise, tapelines, tasseling, teaseling, teasingly, tenailles, tensional, terminals, tidelands, tinplates, tramlines, traplines, treenails, triangles, triplanes, unisexual, univalves, universal, unsealing, valencias, valencies, valerians, valiances, vandalise, versional, vulcanise, waistline, weaklings, weanlings, weaseling, wineglass, yeanlings, yearlings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 6C 69 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- .-.. .. -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a l i n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 006C 0069 006E 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)536778758071 |
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