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SALT  (sôlt)
abbr.
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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.

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

salted [ˈsɔːltɪd]
adj
1. (Cookery) seasoned, preserved, or treated with salt
2. Informal experienced in an occupation
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.salted - (used especially of meats) preserved in salt
preserved - prevented from decaying or spoiling and prepared for future use
Translations
salted [ˈsɔːltɪd] ADJsalado, con sal
salted [ˈsɔːltɪd] adj [water, butter] → salé(e)
salt-free [ˌsɔːltˈfriː] adjsans sel
salted
adj nuts, butter, meat, fishgesalzen; highly saltedstark gesalzen; lightly or slightly salted butterleicht gesalzene Butter; salted herringsSalzheringe pl


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The sausage had only to watch the pot to see that the food was properly cooked, and when it was near dinner-time, he just threw himself into the broth, or rolled in and out among the vegetables three or four times, and there they were, buttered, and salted, and ready to be served.
He at the same time carefully weighed his stores of provision, which consisted of tea, coffee, biscuit, salted meat, and pemmican, a preparation which comprises many nutritive elements in a small space.
The efforts of Agafea Mihalovna and the cook, that the dinner should be particularly good, only ended in two famished friends attacking the preliminary course, eating a great deal of bread and butter, salt goose and salted mushrooms, and in Levin's finally ordering the soup to be served without the accompaniment of little pies, with which the cook had particularly meant to impress their visitor.
 
 
 
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