seasoning
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
seasoning (countable and uncountable, plural seasonings)
- (cooking) Something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as salt and pepper or other condiment, herb or spice.
- (figurative, by extension) Anything added to increase enjoyment.
- A coat of polymerized oil inside a cooking vessel which renders the surface non-stick.
- (archaic) An alcoholic intoxication.
- Some of our gentlemen officers, happening to stop at a tavern, or rather a sort of grogshop, took such a seasoning that two or three of them became “quite frisky.”
- In diamond-cutting, the charging of the laps or wheels with diamond dust and oil.
- The air drying of wood.
Synonyms edit
- (intoxication): drunkenness
Hyponyms edit
- See also Thesaurus:seasoning
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
cooking ingredient
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air drying of wood
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Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English seasonyng, present participle of Middle English sesounen (“to season”), equivalent to season + -ing.
Verb edit
seasoning
- present participle and gerund of season
Anagrams edit
Categories:
- English terms suffixed with -ing (gerund noun)
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Cooking
- English terms with archaic senses
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms suffixed with -ing (participial)
- English non-lemma forms
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