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SALT (sôlt)

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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.]

salting [ˈsɔːltɪŋ]

(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) (often plural) an area of low ground regularly inundated with salt water; often taken to include its halophyte vegetation; a salt marsh

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Noun

salting - the act of adding salt to food

seasoning - the act of adding a seasoning to food

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I bade him tell it to me; and he still laughing said, "In the margin, as I told you, this is written: 'This Dulcinea del Toboso so often mentioned in this history, had, they say, the best hand of any woman in all La Mancha for salting pigs.

Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context

And north we travelled with it, ravaging and destroying, flinging the naked carcasses to the shark and salting down the skins so that they might later adorn the fair shoulders of the women of the cities.

The Sea Wolf by London, Jack View in context

And then the visitors were taken to the other parts of the building, to see what became of each particle of the waste material that had vanished through the floor; and to the pickling rooms, and the salting rooms, the canning rooms, and the packing rooms, where choice meat was prepared for shipping in refrigerator cars, destined to be eaten in all the four corners of civilization.

The Jungle by Sinclair, Upton View in context

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