saline
/ˈseɪ.laɪn/US/ˈseɪ.lin/
saline adjective: containing salt; salty.
Adjective
saline (comparative more saline, superlative most saline)
- Containing salt; salty.
- Resembling salt.
- a saline taste
Noun
saline (countable and uncountable, plural salines)
- Water containing dissolved salt.
- Synonyms:
- saline solution
- A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.
Proper noun capitalized: Saline
Saline
- 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).
saline meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
saline in Hindi
- salty
- खारा khārā
saline in Tamil
- உப்பு நீர், உப்புக் கரைசல், உப்புப் பண்பு, உப்புருசி, உவரான, உவர்த்தன்மையுடைய
saline in Urdu
- saline, salty
- شوریدہ śorīda
saline in Bengali
- নোনতা স্বাদযুক্ত
More languagesFewer languages
- saline in Malayalam
- ഉപ്പുകലർന്ന, ഉപ്പിൻറെ സ്വഭാവമുള്ള, ലവണഗുണമുള്ള
- saline in Kannada
- ಉಪ್ಪಾದ, ಉಪ್ಪು ರುಚಿಯ, ಲವಣಯುಕ್ತ, ಲವಣ ಮಿಶ್ರಿತ
- saline in Punjabi
- ਖਾਰਾ, ਸਲਾਇਨ
- saline in Sanskrit
- पटु paṭú
- saline in Nepali
- सेलाइन, सलाइन
- saline in Tagalog
- maalat
- saline in Persian
- شور šur
Examples of saline in a sentence
- Use an isotonic saline solution in your neti pot to prevent irritation of your nasal passages.
- Potassium citrate is a white, hygroscopic crystalline powder. It is odorless with a saline taste.
- Some oniscideans, which are ordinarily terrestrial, have re-invaded the continental saline waters (e.g.
Synonyms of saline
Forms of saline
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more saline |
| superlative | most saline |
| Noun | |
| plural | salines |
Origin of saline
PIE word *sḗh₂l From Middle English salyne, from Medieval Latin salīna and Middle French salin, from Latin sal (“salt”).
Words formed from saline
- desalinise
- desalinize
- eurysaline
- halosaline
- hydrosaline
- hypersaline
- hyposaline
- isosaline
- mesosaline
- nonsaline
- oligosaline
- phosphosaline
- salinate
- Saline County
- salinely
- salineness
- salinification
- saliniform
- salinization
- salinize
- salinometer
- salino-terrene
- semisaline
- subsaline
- supersaline
- thermosalinograph
- unsaline
- normal saline
- saline flush
Phrases with saline
Questions about saline
- What does saline mean?
- Saline means containing salt; salty.
- What is saline in Hindi?
- Saline in Hindi is खारा (khārā). See Saline meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is saline?
- Saline can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce saline?
- Saline is pronounced /ˈseɪ.laɪn/ (UK).
Words near saline in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: saline (page history and authors); Saline (page history and authors); saline (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); شوریدہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); saline (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); saline (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); saline (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); saline (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); पटु (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); saline (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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