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seasoning
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As a noun, seasoning means something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as salt and pepper or other condiment, herb or spice.
Meanings of seasoning
7 meaningsnoun
cookingSomething used to add taste or flavour to food, such as salt and pepper or other condiment, herb or spice.
figurativeAnything added to increase enjoyment.
A coat of polymerized oil inside a cooking vessel which renders the surface non-stick.
In diamond-cutting, the charging of the laps or wheels with diamond dust and oil.
The act of adding a seasoning to food
Older and rare meanings (1)
archaicAn 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.””
verb
Present participle of season
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).