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Brine vs Brackish - What's the difference?

brine | brackish |

As a noun brine

is salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling.

As a verb brine

is to preserve food in a salt solution.

As an adjective brackish is

salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries.

brine

English

Noun

(-)
  • Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling.
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  • The sea or ocean; the water of the sea.

    • Derived terms

    * briny

    Verb

    (brin)
  • To preserve food in a salt solution.

    • Antonyms

    * debrine * desalinate

    See also

    * bittern

    Anagrams

    * ----

    brackish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of water) Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries.
  • * 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
    • ...by a low cour?e and too long ?porting with the briny Ocean it ta?ts bracki?h and in?alubrious...
  • * 1992, , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 4.
    • On all sides a powerful brackish marshland odor, the odor of damp, and decay, and black earth, black water.
  • * 2004, , Random House.
    • The water we took on at Chatham Isle is now brackish & without a dash of brandy in it, my stomach rebels.
  • ; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste. (rfex)
  • (rfex)

    • Derived terms

    * brackishness