seasonings

Noun

seasoning (countable and uncountable, plural seasonings)

1. Something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as salt and pepper or other condiment, herb or spice.
   • To distinctify the seasoning, add grated fresh ginger, finely minced green chili (serrano or jalapeno), or chopped fresh herbs: cilantro, mint, thyme.1989, Yoga Journal, number 89, page 82
2. (broadly, figuratively) Anything added to increase enjoyment.
3. A coat of polymerized oil inside a cooking vessel which renders the surface non-stick.
4. (archaic) An alcoholic intoxication.
   • Some of our gentlemen officers, happening to stop at a tavern, or rather a sort of grogshop, took such a seasoning that two or three of them became “quite frisky.”

   Synonyms:

   drunkenness

5. In diamond-cutting, the charging of the laps or wheels with diamond dust and oil.
6. The air drying of wood.