saline
IPA: sʌɫˈin
noun
- Water containing dissolved salt.
- A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A village in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
- A city and township in Washtenaw County, Michigan.
- An unincorporated community in Menard County, Texas.
- A ghost town in Box Elder County, Utah, close to the Great Salt Lake.
- A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Saline Township.
- A village in the west of Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT0292).
adjective
- Containing salt; salty.
- Resembling salt.
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Examples of "saline" in Sentences
- The Etosha Pan is almost devoid of macrophytic vegetation and is classified as a saline desert.
- Homeowners, too, have been making the switch to saline, which is about one-twelfth as salty as ocean water.
- 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.
- 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'.
- Mr Salmond said that Scotland is well placed to lead the world in the technology because of its geological assets - mainly former oil and gas fields and an abundance of porous rock, known as saline aquifer.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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