saline vs salty

saline

adj
  • Containing salt; salty. 

  • Resembling salt. 

noun
  • A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth. 

  • Water containing dissolved salt. 

salty

adj
  • Containing salt. 

  • Tasting of salt. 

  • Coarse; provocative; earthy. 

  • Irritated, annoyed, angry, bitter, bitchy. 

  • Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea). 

  • Pertaining to the Sardinian language and those dialects of Catalan, spoken in the Balearic Islands and along the coast of Catalonia, that use definitive articles descended from the Latin ipse (“self”) instead of the Latin ille (“that”). 

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