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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. A coat of burnt soot inside a cooking vessel, which has formed over repeated use, and which renders the surface non sticking. |  |
3. 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. (obsolete) 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. |  |