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Salt

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Noun

1. salt

a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

2. common salt, salt, table salt

white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food

3. salt, strategic arms limitation talks

negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons

4. salinity, salt, saltiness

the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth

Verb

5. salt

add salt to

6. salt

sprinkle as if with salt

Example Sentences:
'the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps'

7. salt

add zest or liveliness to

Example Sentences:
'She salts her lectures with jokes'

8. salt

preserve with salt

Example Sentences:
'people used to salt meats on ships'

Adjective

9. salt

(of speech) painful or bitter

Example Sentences:
'salt scorn'
'a salt apology'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Salt

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noun
1. 
a white powder or colourless crystalline solid, consisting mainly of sodium chloride and used for seasoning and preserving food
2. (modifier)
preserved in, flooded with, containing, or growing in salt or salty water
salt pork
salt marshes
3. chemistry
any of a class of usually crystalline solid compounds that are formed from, or can be regarded as formed from, an acid and a base by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms in the acid molecules by positive ions from the base
4. 
liveliness or pungency
his wit added salt to the discussion
5. 
dry or laconic wit
6. 
a sailor, esp one who is old and experienced
7.  short for saltcellar
8.  rub salt into someone's wounds
9.  salt of the earth
10.  with a grain of salt
11.  worth one's salt
verb (transitive)
12. 
to season or preserve with salt
13. 
to scatter salt over (an icy road, path, etc) to melt the ice
14. 
to add zest to
15. (often foll by down or away)
to preserve or cure with salt or saline solution
16. chemistry
to treat with common salt or other chemical salt
17. 
to provide (cattle, etc) with salt
18. 
to give a false appearance of value to, esp to introduce valuable ore fraudulently into (a mine, sample, etc)
adjective
19. 
not sour, sweet, or bitter; salty
20. obsolete
rank or lascivious (esp in the phrase a salt wit)
noun acronym for
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks or Treaty

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Salt

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noun
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
noun
1. 
sodium chloride, NaCl, a white, crystalline substance with a characteristic taste, found in natural beds, in sea water, etc., and used for seasoning and preserving foods, etc.
2. 
a chemical compound derived from an acid by replacing hydrogen, wholly or partly, with a metal or an electropositive radical
the salt of an -ous acid is usually indicated by the suffix -ite, the salt of an -ic acid by the suffix -ate
3. 
that which lends a tang or piquancy; esp., sharp pungent humor or wit
4. 
saltcellar
5.  [pl.]
any of various mineral salts used as a cathartic, as Epsom salts, or to soften bath water, as a restorative, etc.
6.  Informal
a sailor, esp. an experienced one
adjective
7. 
containing salt
8. 
preserved with salt
9. 
tasting or smelling of salt
10.  Rare
pungent or biting
11. 
a. 
flooded with salt water
b. 
growing in salt water
verb transitive
12. 
to sprinkle or season with salt
13. 
to preserve with salt or in a salt solution
14. 
to provide with salt
15. 
to treat with salt in chemical processes
16. 
to season or give a tang to
to salt a speech with wit
17. 
to give artificial value to
; specif.,
a. 
to alter (books, prices, etc.) in order to give false value
b.  US
to scatter minerals or ores in (a mine), put oil in (a well), etc. in order to deceive prospective buyers

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.


Salt

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abbr.
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
n.
1. A usually whitish crystalline solid, chiefly sodium chloride, used extensively in ground or granulated form as a food seasoning and preservative. Also called common salt, table salt.
2. An ionic chemical compound formed by replacing all or part of the hydrogen ions of an acid with metal ions or other cations.
3. salts Any of various mineral salts used as laxatives or cathartics.
4. salts Smelling salts.
5. often salts Epsom salts.
6. An element that gives flavor or zest.
7. Sharp lively wit.
8. Informal A sailor, especially when old or experienced.
9. A saltcellar.
adj.
1. Containing or filled with salt: a salt spray; salt tears.
2. Having a salty taste or smell: breathed the salt air.
3. Preserved in salt or a salt solution: salt mackerel.
4.
a. Flooded with seawater.
b. Found in or near such a flooded area: salt grasses.
tr.v. salt·ed, salt·ing, salts
1. To add, treat, season, or sprinkle with salt.
2. To cure or preserve by treating with salt or a salt solution.
3. To provide salt for (deer or cattle).
4. To add zest or liveliness to: salt a lecture with anecdotes.
5. To give an appearance of value to by fraudulent means, especially to place valuable minerals in (a mine) for the purpose of deceiving.

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