What's the difference between briny and salty?

Briny


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to brine, or to the sea; partaking of the nature of brine; salt; as, a briny taste; the briny flood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Old fishing nets and briny ropes enclose the gardens, and lines of washing flap in the Atlantic breeze.
  • (2) Recipe supplied by Patrick Hanna, L'Entrepot, lentrepot.co.uk Clams with leek, fennel and parsley Though you could add a twirl of al dente spaghetti or linguine to this dish, it is the fragrant, briny broth that delights – better with a crusty loaf and a spoon.
  • (3) The presence of 3,4-benzopyrene is reported in samples of water and sediments from three briny ponds free from pollution of exogenous origin belonging to three different atolls of Polynesia.
  • (4) Even better, the Darwinian fact that these 21 books had remained in print for four decades meant that we did not have to wade through any dross – all our survivors had some merit – and, thanks to the open nature of the competition, I had the perfect opportunity to read several "genre" books I would not otherwise have picked up in a thousand years: the briny Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian, the aforementioned Bomber , which brilliantly describes the progress of an Allied air raid over 24 hours in the summer of 1943.
  • (5) Some say this mentality comes from the fishing traditions, a kind of survival machismo, the need to sit through every millimetre of briny discomfort until the catch is full.
  • (6) Shortly after the raid, Mother Jones's Adam Weinstein, an Iraq war veteran, wrote: "Now that Osama bin Laden rests in the briny deep, reporters and citizens alike are asking good questions about the operation that dumped him there.
  • (7) But at dusk, this blue flag beach comes into its own: the sun dips into the sea as, in the distance, 30 wind turbines shimmer in the briny haze.
  • (8) Also discussed are indices (minimal admissible and optimal levels of basic water mineralization and calcium content, standards of microelements such as boron and bromine content, content of individual groups of microorganisms, water temperature) for evaluating the quality of demineralized water obtained from brackish and briny water (including water from the sea and ocean) by various methods which are designed for public water supply systems.

Salty


Definition:

  • (a.) Somewhat salt; saltish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But for the mid Atlantic, the models showed that only human-driven global warming could explain the increase in saltiness – the first time such an explicit link has been made between climate change and salinity.
  • (2) The sensitivity of the taste system to the various qualities was, in decreasing order, salty, sweet, sour, and bitter.
  • (3) The most relevant factors causing these differences were: saltiness, fluor flavor, stickiness, dryness, and uniformity of color.
  • (4) Based on the results, it is concluded that the epithelial response to NaCl is produced by sodium transport across the dorsal epithelium of the tongue, and the transport may relate to the mechanism of salty sensation.
  • (5) Two groups of subjects differing from one another on their elective appetite and taste for two types of food (sweet versus salty) are distinguished.
  • (6) The electrostimulation of the hypothalamus accelerates the elaboration of conditioned aversion of salty food inhibition of conditioned runnings toward corresponding food-box, and intensifies the existent state of thirst transforming it in the dominant motivation.
  • (7) Instead, the different taste qualities--sweet, sour, salty, bitter--are subserved by different mechanisms.
  • (8) On average, monosodium glutamate and seltzer, which mongrel dogs do not normally encounter in their diets, produced lower gastric acid secretion and pancreatic polypeptide release than sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and meaty tastes.
  • (9) The responses to salty, sour, and bitter solutions shared the same hedonically negative upper- and midface components but differed in the accompanying lower-face actions: lip pursing in response to sour and mouth gaping in response to bitter.
  • (10) Heidi was nauseous, slept all day and started craving citrus fruits and salty things.
  • (11) Long-term maintenance of mice on both rice and salty rice diets led to a relative increase of tetrahydrocortisol associated with a concomitant decrease of androgen, progestin, and cholesterol in urine.
  • (12) The ANAs also generally drank less of the bitter, salty, and sour solutions than the AAs or Wistars but little difference was found between the NPs and Ps with the other tastes.
  • (13) Read more pieces like this: The great salty mess: pollution threatens US fresh water resources Climate change may ‘bottleneck’ the Panama Canal and disrupt world trade Advertisement Feature : The water, energy and food nexus - animation The water hub is funded by SABMiller.
  • (14) Sea ice influences the ocean conveyor belt As sea ice forms in the Arctic and Antarctic, dense salty water sinks to the bottom of the ocean starting the “global ocean conveyor belt” that pumps heat and salt around the world’s oceans.
  • (15) The release of saltiness from suppression is supposed to originate from habituation to sweet stimuli.
  • (16) Great going by Pedey & Salty #RedSox there ;-P @HunterFelt @BBC5LSX October 20, 2013 3.35am BST Tigers 2 - Red Sox 1, top of the 6th Prince Fielder is still the MVP for the Boston Red Sox in the ALCS.
  • (17) The intrapair concordance on the food intake (egg, meat, fish, milk and salty seasoning) was positively correlated with the age of separation.
  • (18) Forward, stepwise regression analyses indicated that less education was also predictive of shorter breast-feeding duration, earlier introduction of solid foods, addition of salt to infant food, and use of salty foods as snacks.
  • (19) • Doubles from €72 B&B, +351 282 624 212, memmohotels.com 12 Seaside riad , Olhão Facebook Twitter Pinterest A leading (if reclusive) Portuguese architect and his family run Convento , a very sexy riad-style, nine-bedroom ex-convent house hidden in the medina of this charming, salty fishing town.
  • (20) Richie (@richiemetsoh) @LengelDavid tremendous play by Salty on both ends says McCarver.

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