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brine

/ˈbɹaːn/UK/ˈbɹaɪ̯n/

brine noun: salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling.

Noun

brine (usually uncountable, plural brines)

  1. (usually) Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling.
    • Do you want a can of tuna in oil or in brine?
    • Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
  2. (usually) The sea or ocean; the water of the sea.
    • Ariell: Not a ſoule
      But felt a Feauer of the madde, and plaid
      Some tricks of deſperation ; all but Mariners
      Plung'd in the foaming bryne, and quit the veſſell ;
      Then all a fire with me the Kings ſonne Ferdinand
      With haire vp-ſtaring (then like reeds, not haire)
      Was the firſt man that leapt ; cride...1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
    • "Ho, aboard the Salt Junk Sarah,
      Rollin" home across the line,
      The Bo'sun collared the Captain's hat
      And threw it in the brine.1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 52

Verb

brine (third-person singular simple present brines, present participle brining, simple past and past participle brined)

  1. (transitive) To preserve food in a salt solution.
  2. (transitive) To prepare and flavor food (especially meat) for cooking by soaking in a salt solution.

Proper noun capitalized: Brine

Brine

  1. A surname.

brine meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

brine in Tamil

உப்புநீர், கடனீர், உப்பு நிறைந்த நீர், உப்புக் கரைசல்

brine in Urdu

کھارا پانی, سمندر

brine in Malayalam

ഉപ്പുവെളളം

brine in Kannada

ಉಪ್ಪುನೀರು
More languagesFewer languages
brine in Arabic
أُجَاج ʔujāj, صِير ṣīr, بُنّ bunn, مُرِّيّ murriyy
brine in Indonesian
air garam
brine in Persian
آب نمک âb-namak
brine in Thai
น้ำเกลือ nám-glʉʉa, น้ำทะเล nám-tá-lee, น้ำเค็ม nám-kem
brine in Vietnamese
nước muối, nước dưa
brine in Myanmar
ရေငန် re-ngan

Examples of brine in a sentence

  • Brine was generally reputed a high Calvinist and a supralapsarian.
  • "Mine love and gratitude to ye Fallen Angels, still marked with battle brine.
  • The children of Bethel, then, come from diverse communities, brining their own storyknifing styles with them.

All 26 example sentences with brine

Antonyms of brine

Forms of brine

Noun
pluralbrines
Verb
third-person singular presentbrines
present participlebrining
past participlebrined
pastbrined

Plural of brine: brines

Origin of brine

From Middle English brine, bryne, from Old English brīne, from Proto-West Germanic *brīnā, from Proto-Germanic *brīnǭ (“salt water, brine”) (compare Scots brime, West Frisian brein, Dutch brijn (“brine”), West Flemish brijne), of unknown ultimate origin, but probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreyH- (“to cut, maim”). Cognates include Old Irish ro·bria (“may hurt, damage”), Latin friāre (“to rub, crumble”), Slovene bríti (“to shave, shear”), Albanian brej (“to gnaw”), Sanskrit बृणाति (bṛṇā́ti, “they injure, hurt”). Alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *mriHnós, from *móri (compare Latin marīnus).

* As a Dutch surname, Americanized from Bruin. * As an English surname, possibly from Old English bryne (“burning”).

Words formed from brine

Phrases with brine

Words that rhyme with brine

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Questions about brine

What does brine mean?
Brine means salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling.
What is brine in Tamil?
Brine in Tamil is உப்புநீர், கடனீர், உப்பு நிறைந்த நீர். See Brine meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is brine?
Brine can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce brine?
Brine is pronounced /ˈbɹaɪ̯n/ (UK).
What is the plural of brine?
The plural of brine is brines.

Words near brine in the dictionary

  1. brindleyite
  2. Brindleys
  3. brindling
  4. brindlings
  5. brindlish
  6. brine
  7. brine flies
  8. brine fly
  9. brine lake
  10. brine lakes
  11. brine pool

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brine (page history and authors); Brine (page history and authors); brine (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); brine (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); brine (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); brine (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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