Associations to the word «Saline»

Wiktionary

SALINE, adjective. Containing salt; salty.
SALINE, adjective. Resembling salt.
SALINE, noun. Water containing dissolved salt.
SALINE, noun. A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.
SALINE EVAPORITE, noun. (geology) a deposit of sedimentary rock composed of salts precipitated during solar evaporation of surface brines
SALINE EVAPORITES, noun. Plural of saline evaporite
SALINE SOLUTION, noun. A solution composed of sodium chloride (NaCl) and water.

Dictionary definition

SALINE, noun. An isotonic solution of sodium chloride and distilled water.
SALINE, adjective. Containing salt; "a saline substance "; "salty tears".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats