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| seasoning | |
| 1. n. (cooking) Something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as a condiment, herb or spice. |  |
| 2. n. (figurative, by extension) Anything added to increase enjoyment. | |
| 3. n. A coat of burnt soot inside a cooking vessel, which has formed over repeated use, and which renders the surface non sticking. | |
| 4. n. (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.” | |
| season | |
| 1. n. Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter | |
| 2. n. A part of a year when something particular happens | |
| mating season | |
| the rainy season | |
| the football season | |
| 3. n. (obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning. | |
| 4. n. (cricket) The period over which a series of Test matches are played. | |
| 5. n. (North America, broadcasting) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of e | |
| The third season of “Friends” aired from 1996 to 1997. | |
| 6. n. (archaic) An extended, undefined period of time. | |
| 7. v. To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt. | |
| 8. v. To make fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure | |
| to season oneself to a climate | |
| 9. v. Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices | |
| The timber needs to be seasoned. | |
| 10. v. (intransitive) To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate. | |
| 11. v. (intransitive) To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance | |
| The wood has seasoned in the sun. | |
| 12. v. (obsolete) To copulate with; to impregnate. | |
