desalinize

Thân thiện

The engineer desalinizes seawater to make it drinkable.

Definition

1. Verb (transitive):
   • To remove salt from something, especially from seawater or brackish water, to make it suitable for drinking, irrigation, or industrial use. It is a technical term for the process of desalination.

Usage

• The verb desalinize is used with a direct object (the thing from which salt is removed).
• It is most commonly used in technical, scientific, or engineering contexts related to water treatment and resource management.
• The process or result can be described as desalinization.

Examples

• Verb:
  • The new facility can desalinize millions of gallons of seawater each day.
  • This portable device uses solar energy to desalinize water for emergency use.
  • The primary goal of the project is to desalinize the local aquifer, which has become too saline for agriculture.

Advanced Usage

• "to desalinize [something]": The standard construction for stating the action.
  • The country invested heavily in new technology to desalinize its coastal water sources.

Variants and Related Words

• Desalinate (verb): A more common synonym with the identical meaning: .
• Desalinization (noun): The process or result of desalinizing.
• Desalination (noun): The more frequently used term for the process.

Synonyms

• Desalt: A less formal synonym meaning to remove salt.
• Purify (in this specific context): To make pure, which includes the removal of salt and other impurities from water.

Antonyms

• Salinate: To add salt to.
• Brine: To treat with or steep in salt water.

Học thuật

Verb

1. remove salt from
   • desalinate water

Từ đồng nghĩa

• desalinate
• desalt
• desalinise