Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To desalinize.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb to remove the salt from, especially from water.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
remove thesalt from something, especially fromseawater for use in adomestic water supply
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb remove salt from
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Examples
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Seven billion people will need a lot of energy to produce food, especially in the expanding number of regions that use energy to pump, treat, move, desalinate or otherwise make water fit for agricultural uses.
Terry Tamminen: The Five Scariest Things About Halloween 2011 Terry Tamminen 2011
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He acknowledges that Israel must invest in desalination, but questions the dosage, suggesting it would be better to desalinate less, and invest more in environmentally friendly solutions for the water shortage.
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The idea is to desalinate some of the seawater, but to use the rest to fill Xinjiang ' s dried-up salt lakes and desert basins in the hope that it will evaporate and encourage rainfall over drought-stricken areas of northern and northwestern China.
China Officials Push Water Plan Jeremy Page 2010
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This dystopian novel takes us through an engineer's discovery of a free way to desalinate water in seriously water constrained future.
A. Siegel: Energy Bookshelf: Ten More Worth Your Time Than Super Freaky Crap A. Siegel 2010
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This dystopian novel takes us through an engineer's discovery of a free way to desalinate water in (seriously) water constrained future.
A. Siegel: Energy Bookshelf: Ten More Worth Your Time Than Super Freaky Crap 2010
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Carmelita Omli says the world should eliminate visa requirements, while Carl Wayne Hardeman believes a cheap way to desalinate sea water could help solve water shortage problems.
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Carmelita Omli says the world should eliminate visa requirements, while Carl Wayne Hardeman believes a cheap way to desalinate sea water could help solve water shortage problems.
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He acknowledges that Israel must invest in desalination, but questions the dosage, suggesting it would be better to desalinate less, and invest more in environmentally friendly solutions for the water shortage.
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Carmelita Omli says the world should eliminate visa requirements, while Carl Wayne Hardeman believes a cheap way to desalinate sea water could help solve water shortage problems.
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This dystopian novel takes us through an engineer's discovery of a free way to desalinate water in (seriously) water constrained future.
Energy Bookshelf: Ten More Worth Your Time Than Super Freaky Crap 2010
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