marinate
verbEtymology
First attested in 1645; adapted from either French mariner or the earlier attested Italian marinare (“to pickle, marinate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from Late Latin marina (“brine, salt water”), short for aqua marina (“sea water”), from Latin marinus (“marine, of the sea”), from Latin mare (“the sea”) from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“the sea”).
Definitions
To allow a sauce or flavoring mixture to absorb into something
To allow a sauce or flavoring mixture to absorb into something; to steep or soak something in a marinade to flavor or prepare it for cooking.
- You'll get a better flavour from the chicken if you marinate it first.
- After the chicken has marinated for two hours, discard the remaining marinade.
To allow a substance to be absobed into the hair or scalp.
- oblucy: "vinegar... to marinate the scalp... oil... to lubricate the scalp..."
- Let your scalp marinate while you shave.
- Wrap a dry towel around the wet towel, and let your child's hair marinate for an hour.
Of a substance, to absorb into the hair or scalp.
- a rejuvenating oil you use to saturate your hair and let it marinate from 15 minutes to 2 hours
- [...] hair rather than the scalp, but as always, experiment. You can also play around with how long you leave the mixture on your head — some people have better results after letting the ACV marinate for a few minutes.
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Of ideas or feelings, to mentally develop over time.
Especially of a haircut, to settle in and for one to get used to it.
- It's not a bad haircut! You just got to let it marinate!
Marinated.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for marinate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA