seasoning

Pluralseasonings

1. 1
   nouncountable or uncountable

   A salt, spice, herb, or other thing you add to make food taste better.

   Like adding sugar to a drink to make it sweeter: it changes how food tastes.

   Add a little seasoning to the soup before you serve it.

   This rice is plain and needs more seasoning.

   Similarflavoring, spice

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2. 2
   nounfigurativelyuncountable

   Anything extra that makes something more fun or enjoyable.

   Like spice in food, but for life: a little makes things more interesting.

   A few jokes added some seasoning to the long meeting.

   Her wild stories gave the trip a bit of extra seasoning.

   Similarspice, zest, flavor

3. 3
   noununcountable

   The drying of wood in open air so it can be used for building or furniture.

   Like leaving wet clothes out until they slowly dry.

   The seasoning of the oak took almost two years.

   Proper seasoning keeps the planks from cracking later.

   Similardrying, curing

4. 4
   noununcountable

   Coating a pan with fat and heating it so that food will not stick.

   Like waxing a surface so things slide off easily.

   The seasoning on the skillet keeps eggs from sticking.

   A new iron pan needs seasoning before you cook with it.

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5. 5
   verb

   Present participle of season. Use this form for something happening right now.

   She is seasoning the soup with fresh basil and pepper.

   He kept seasoning the stew until it tasted just right.

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6. 6
   noununcountable

   In diamond cutting, the coating of the spinning wheels with diamond dust and oil.

   Like rubbing grit into a wheel so it can grind down hard stone.

   The seasoning of the laps gave the wheels their cutting edge.

   Without fresh seasoning, the wheels could not polish the stones.

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