brines
/bɹaɪnz/
brines is the plural of brine.
brines is the third-person singular simple present indicative of brine.
Meaning of brine
Noun
brine (usually uncountable, plural brines)
- 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?
- 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...
- Ariell: Not a ſoule
Words that rhyme with brines
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- argentines
- bines
- bread lines
- breadlines
- carbines
- clementines
- co-signs
- coal mines
- coalmines
- colour outside the lines
- cosigns
- cosines
- defines
- designs
- dines
- fine lines
- fuel lines
- gas lines
- kines
- maligns
- mines
- misdefines
- ninety-nines
- number nines
- overdefines
- overlines
- overmines
- pines
- redefines
- refines
- relines
- serpentines
- shines
- shrines
- signs
- sixty-nines
- spines
- sublines
- telephone lines
- turpentines
- undefines
- underdefines
- underlines
- undermines
- vines
- water lines
- waterlines
- whines
Questions about brines
- What is brines the plural of?
- Brines is the plural of brine.
- How do you pronounce brines?
- Brines is pronounced /bɹaɪnz/.
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