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Noun | 1. | ![]() 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 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 sodium chlorate - a colorless salt (NaClO3) used as a weed killer and an antiseptic bichromate, dichromate - a salt of the hypothetical dichromic acid sodium bichromate, sodium dichromate - a red-orange salt used as a mordant microcosmic salt - a white salt present in urine and used to test for metal oxides silicate - a salt or ester derived from silicic acid sal soda, soda, soda ash, sodium carbonate, washing soda - a sodium salt of carbonic acid; used in making soap powders and glass and paper |
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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 | |
4. | salt - the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth 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" |
2. | salt - sprinkle as if with salt; "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps" | |
3. | salt - add zest or liveliness to; "She salts her lectures with jokes" | |
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" | |
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" |