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salt (sôlt)

1. A colorless or white 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. A chemical compound formed by replacing all or part of the hydrogen ions of an acid with metal ions or electropositive radicals.

3. salts Any of various mineral salts used as laxatives or cathartics.

4. salts Smelling salts.

5. Epsom salts. Often used in the plural.

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.

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.

Phrasal Verbs:

salt away

To put aside; save.

salt out

To separate (a dissolved substance) by adding salt to the solution.

Idioms:

salt of the earth

A person or group considered as the best or noblest part of society.

worth (one's) salt

Efficient and capable.

[Middle English, from Old English sealt; see sal- in Indo-European roots.]

salt

Noun

1. sodium chloride, a white crystalline substance, used for seasoning and preserving food

2. Chem a crystalline solid compound formed from an acid by replacing its hydrogen with a metal

3. lively wit: his humour added salt to the discussion

4. old salt an experienced sailor

5. rub salt into someone's wounds to make an unpleasant situation even worse for someone

6. salt of the earth a person or people regarded as the finest of their kind

7. take something with a pinch of salt to refuse to believe something is completely true or accurate

8. worth one's salt worthy of one's pay; efficient

Verb

1. to season or preserve with salt

2. to scatter salt over (an iced road or path) to melt the ice

Adjective

preserved in or tasting of salt: salt beef

See also salt away, salts [Old English sealt]

salted adj

SALT Strategic Arms Limitation Talks or Treaty

salt (sôlt)

1. Any of a large class of chemical compounds formed when a positively charged ion (a cation) bonds with a negatively charged ion (an anion), as when a halogen bonds with a metal. Salts are water soluble; when dissolved, the ions are freed from each other, and the electrical conductivity of the water is increased. See more at complex salt double salt simple salt

2. A colorless or white crystalline salt in which a sodium atom (the cation) is bonded to a chlorine atom (the anion). This salt is found naturally in all animal fluids, in seawater, and in underground deposits (when it is often called halite). It is used widely as a food seasoning and preservative. Also called common salt, sodium chloride, table salt. Chemical formula: NaCl.

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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) acetate, ethanoate - a salt or ester of acetic acid citrate - a salt or ester of citric acid arsenate - a salt or ester of arsenic acid chlorate - any salt of chloric acid dibasic salt - a salt derived by replacing two hydrogen atoms per molecule hypochlorite - any salt or ester of hypochlorous acid pyrophosphate - a salt or ester of pyrophosphoric acid sulfonate - a salt of sulphonic acid lactate - a salt or ester of lactic acid perchlorate - a salt of perchloric acid alkali - a mixture of soluble salts found in arid soils and some bodies of water; detrimental to agriculture ammonium chloride, sal ammoniac - a white salt used in dry cells benzoate - any salt or ester of benzoic acid borate - a salt or ester of boric acid borosilicate - a salt of boric and silicic acids calcium lactate - a white crystalline salt made by the action of lactic acid on calcium carbonate; used in foods (as a baking powder) and given medically as a source of calcium calcium octadecanoate, calcium stearate - an insoluble calcium salt of stearic acid and palmitic acid; it is formed when soap is mixed with water that contains calcium ions and is the scum produced in regions of hard water carbamate - a salt (or ester) of carbamic acid carbonate - a salt or ester of carbonic acid (containing the anion CO3) fulminate - a salt or ester of fulminic acid chromate - any salt or ester of chromic acid chemical compound, compound - (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight cyanide - an extremely poisonous salt of hydrocyanic acid potassium bromide - a white crystalline salt (KBr) used as a sedative and in photography potassium chlorate - a white salt (KClO3) used in matches, fireworks, and explosives; also used as a disinfectant and bleaching agent potassium dichromate - an orange-red salt used in making dyes and in photography ferricyanide - salt of ferricyanic acid obtained by oxidation of a ferrocyanide ferrocyanide - salt of ferrocyanic acid usually obtained by a reaction of a cyanide with iron sulphate fluoroboride - a salt of fluoroboric acid fluosilicate - salt of fluosilicic acid glutamate - a salt or ester of glutamic acid halide - a salt of any halogen acid isocyanate - a salt or ester of isocyanic acid calcium chloride - a deliquescent salt; used in de-icing and as a drying agent calcium sulfate, calcium sulphate - a white salt (CaSO4) manganate - a salt of manganic acid containing manganese as its anion chrome alum - a violet-colored salt used in hide tanning and as a mordant in dyeing tartrate - a salt or ester of tartaric acid oxalacetate, oxaloacetate - a salt or ester of oxalacetic acid oxalate - a salt or ester of oxalic acid permanganate - a dark purple salt of permanganic acid; in water solution it is used as a disinfectant and antiseptic inorganic phosphate, orthophosphate, phosphate - a salt of phosphoric acid polyphosphate - a salt or ester of polyphosphoric acid acrylate, propenoate - a salt or ester of propenoic acid salicylate - a salt of salicylic acid (included in several commonly used drugs) double salt - a solution of two simple salts that forms a single substance on crystallization bile salt - a salt of bile acid and a base; functions as an emulsifier of lipids and fatty acids Glauber's salt, Glauber's salts - (Na2SO4.10H2O) a colorless salt used as a cathartic cream of tartar, potassium bitartrate, potassium hydrogen tartrate, tartar - a salt used especially in baking powder
	2.	salt - white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food table salt, common salt flavorer, flavoring, flavourer, flavouring, seasoning, seasoner - something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts
	3.	SALT - 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 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
	4.	salt - the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth salinity, saltiness gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, taste, taste perception, taste sensation - the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus; "the candy left him with a bad taste"; "the melon had a delicious taste"
Verb	1.	salt - add salt to cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" flavor, flavour, season - lend flavor to; "Season the chicken breast after roasting it"
	2.	salt - sprinkle as if with salt; "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps" splash, sprinkle, splosh - cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force; "She splashed the water around her"
	3.	salt - add zest or liveliness to; "She salts her lectures with jokes" spice, spice up - make more interesting or flavorful; "Spice up the evening by inviting a belly dancer"
	4.	salt - preserve with salt; "people used to salt meats on ships" cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" preserve, keep - prevent (food) from rotting; "preserved meats"; "keep potatoes fresh"
Adj.	1.	salt - (of speech) painful or bitter; "salt scorn"- Shakespeare; "a salt apology" sharp - keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point; "a sharp pain"; "sharp winds"

salt

noun 1. seasoning, sodium chloride, table salt, rock salt

noun 2. sailor, marine, seaman, mariner, tar (informal) hearty (informal) navigator, sea dog, seafarer, matelot (slang), chiefly Brit. Jack Tar, seafaring man, lascar, leatherneck (slang)

adjective 3. salty, salted, saline, brackish, briny rub salt into the wound make something worse, add insult to injury, fan the flames, aggravate matters, magnify a problem with a grain or pinch of salt sceptically, suspiciously, cynically, doubtfully, with reservations, disbelievingly, mistrustfully

Translations

SALT [sɔːlt] n abbr (= Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty) → tratado SALT

salt [sɔːlt] n → sal f

vt → salar (= put salt on); poner sal en;

an old salt → un lobo de mar

salt away vt (col) [+ money]; ahorrar

SALT [sɔːlt] n abbr (= Strategic Arms Limitation Talks/Treaty) → SALT m

salt [sɔːlt] n → sel m

vt → saler

cpd → de sel;

(Culin) → salé(e);

an old salt → un vieux loup de mer

salt away vt → mettre de côté

SALT [sɔːlt] n abbr (= Strategic Arms Limitation Talks/Treaty) → SALT

salt [sɔːlt] n → Salz nt

vt (preserve) → einsalzen;

(put salt on) → salzen [+ road]; mit Salz streuen

cpd → Salz-;

(pork, beef) → gepökelt;

the salt of the earth (fig) → das Salz der Erde;

to take sth with a pinch or grain of salt (fig) → etw nicht ganz so ernst nehmen

SALT [sɔːlt] n abbr (= Strategic Arms Limitation Talks/Treaty) → S.A.L.T. m

salt [sɔːlt] n → sale m

vt → salare

cpd → di sale;

(CULIN) → salato/a;

an old salt → un lupo di mare

salt away vt → ammucchiare, mettere via

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