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salt  (sôlt)

n.

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.

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.

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.

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

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salt away

Verb

to hoard or save (money) for the future

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

salt away - keep or lay aside for future use; "store grain for the winter"; "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat" hive away, lay in, stack away, stash away, store, put in bin - store in bins keep, hold on - retain possession of; "Can I keep my old stuffed animals?"; "She kept her maiden name after she married" computerise, computerize - store in a computer; "computerized dictionary" victual - lay in provisions; "The vessel victualled before the long voyage" collect, compile, accumulate, amass, roll up, hoard, pile up - get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" hive - store, like bees; "bees hive honey and pollen"; "He hived lots of information"