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# saline

«saline» in Mova's school dictionary: **containing salt or salty** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (saline); noun (saline, uncountable — salt solution)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Saline means containing salt or salty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saline/#m1)

2) Saline (noun), or saline solution, is clean salty water used in medicine, for example to wash wounds, rinse eyes or contact lenses, or in a drip in hospital. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saline/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons it comes up with solutions and with the sea: seawater is saline, river water is fresh. In health it is the salt water nurses use. Phrases: «saline solution», «saline drip», «saline water», «a saline lake».

### examples

- Seawater is saline, so you cannot drink it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saline/#x1)
- The nurse cleaned the cut with saline. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saline/#x2)
- He rinses his contact lenses in saline solution. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saline/#x3)
- In hospital she was given a saline drip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saline/#x4)
- The Dead Sea is a very saline lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saline/#x5)
- We made a saline solution by dissolving salt in water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saline/#x6)
- Saline nose spray helps clear a blocked nose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saline/#x7)

### note

Said «SAY-line». Adjective and uncountable noun. Similar words: salty, briny. Saline solution in medicine is made sterile; homemade salt water is not the same for eyes.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «saline» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saline/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.