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Brine vs Brise - What's the difference?

brine | brise |

As nouns the difference between brine and brise

is that brine is salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling while brise is a tract of land that has been left untilled for a long time.

As a verb brine

is to preserve food in a salt solution.

brine

English

Noun

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  • 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

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    brise

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete, rare) A tract of land that has been left untilled for a long time.
  • * 1616 : Richard Surflet [tr.] and Gervase Markham [aug.], Estienne and Liébault’s Maison Rustique, or The Countrie Farme , page 92
    • Afterward let him draw a Brise or two made fast in the yoke.

    References

    * “ †brise]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989

    Anagrams

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