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saline

(seɪlaɪn, US -liːn)
adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
A saline substance or liquid contains salt.
...a saline solution.
...warm, saline water.
salinity (səlɪnɪti) uncountable noun
The Atlantic Ocean had undergone changes in temperature and salinity.
...a problem of soil salinity.

saline in British English

(ˈseɪlaɪn)
adjective
1. 
of, concerned with, consisting of, or containing common salt
a saline taste
2.  medicine
of or relating to a saline
3. 
of, concerned with, consisting of, or containing any chemical salt, esp a metallic salt resembling sodium chloride
noun
4.  medicine
an isotonic solution of sodium chloride in distilled water
Derived forms
salinity (səˈlɪnɪtɪ)
noun
Word origin
C15: from Late Latin salīnus, from Latin sal salt

saline in American English

(ˈseɪˌlin; ˈseɪˌlaɪn; for 3, also səˈlin)
adjective
1. 
of, characteristic of, or containing common salt, or sodium chloride
2. 
of or containing any of the salts of the alkali metals or magnesium
noun
3. 
a salt spring, lick, mine, etc.
4. 
a salt of magnesium or of an alkali metal, often used as a cathartic
5. 
a saline solution, esp. one that is isotonic, used in medical treatment or biological experiments
Derived forms
salinity (saˈlinity) (səˈlɪnəti)
noun
Word origin
LME salyne < L salinus < sal, salt

Examples of 'saline' in a sentence
saline

They now face the possibility that her death could have been caused by infected saline solution.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The process of filling the balloons with saline solution each week has been more painful than expected.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Police have widened the longrunning inquiry into the contamination of saline drips to include a fourth death.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The dad of two is accused of injecting insulin into saline solutions.
The Sun (2014)
Charges that she tampered with saline solution were dropped.
The Sun (2011)
The saline drip was not enough.
The Sun (2010)
After realising he had drunk 56 pints they tried to stabilise him with an intravenous saline solution.
The Sun (2008)
They lay under ropes, strung up to hold saline drips.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Salt Used to make up a saline solution for cleaning wounds.
Eccles, Lesley Your First Horse - buying, feeding, caring (1989)
Sounds extreme, or would extreme be a saline drip over the lunch interval?
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
In fact, they were given only a saline solution both times.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
In desperation, one of the nursing staff injected the patient with a harmless solution of saline.
Dylan Evans PLACEBO: The Belief Effect (2003)
His son and daughter appeared in his place and announced that he was suffering from a sore throat and was on a saline drip.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
A hospital doctor we knew has left in disgust after a patient died for lack of saline drips.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
But the procedure kept being postponed and he suffered for 96 hours with no food and just a saline drip for nourishment.
The Sun (2010)
THE nurse accused of tampering with saline drips at a hospital after a probe into patient deaths will face trial early next year.
The Sun (2011)
But he said'many people' had access to the saline bags and there were other fingerprints.
The Sun (2011)
In reality he only gave them a saline solution, so they would continue the treatment at 500 a time.
The Sun (2006)
Some crops can cope with slight, saline soils, but there is a limit to how much salt any of them can cope with.
Radford, Tim & Leggett, Jeremy The Crisis of Life on Earth - our legacy from the second millenium (1990)

Chinese translation of 'saline'

saline

(ˈseɪlaɪn)

adj

  1. [water, solution] 含盐(鹽)的 (hányán de)

n (u)

  1. 生理盐(鹽)水 (shēnglǐ yánshuǐ)

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