What does SALT mean?

Definitions for SALT
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. saltnoun

    a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

  2. salt, table salt, common saltnoun

    white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food

  3. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, SALTnoun

    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, saltiness, salinityadjective

    the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth

  5. saltverb

    (of speech) painful or bitter

    "salt scorn"- Shakespeare; "a salt apology"

  6. saltverb

    add salt to

  7. saltverb

    sprinkle as if with salt

    "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps"

  8. saltverb

    add zest or liveliness to

    "She salts her lectures with jokes"

  9. saltverb

    preserve with salt

    "people used to salt meats on ships"

Wiktionary

  1. saltnoun

    A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.

  2. saltnoun

    One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.

  3. saltnoun

    A kind of marsh at the shore of a sea (short for salt marsh, apparently not in a wide-spread use).

  4. saltnoun

    A sailor (also old salt).

  5. saltnoun

    Additional bytes inserted into a plaintext message before encryption, in order to increase randomness and render brute-force decryption more difficult.

  6. saltnoun

    A person that engages in the political act of seeking employment at a company in order to help unionize it.

  7. saltverb

    To add salt to.

  8. saltverb

    To blast gold into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.

  9. saltverb

    To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.

  10. saltverb

    To include colorful language in.

  11. saltverb

    To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.

  12. saltverb

    To add bogus evidence to an archeological site.

  13. saltadjective

    Salty.

  14. saltadjective

    Saline.

  15. Etymology: From sealt, from saltan (cf. Dutch zout, German Salz, Swedish salt), from seh₂l- (cf. Welsh halen, Latin sal, Russian соль, Ancient Greek ἅλς).

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Saltadjective

    We were better parch in Africk sun,
    Than in the pride and salt scorn of his eyes. William Shakespeare.

    Thou old and true Menenius,
    Thy tears are salter than a younger man’s,
    And venomous to thine eyes. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

    It hath been observed by the ancients, that salt water will dissolve salt put into it in less time than fresh water. Francis Bacon.

    Hang him, mechanical salt butter rogue: I will awe him with my cudgel. William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor.

    A leap into salt waters very often gives a new motion to the spirits, and a new turn to the blood. Addison.

    He shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness in a salt land, and not inhabited. Jer. xvii. 6.

    In Cheshire they improve their lands by letting out the water of the salt springs on them, always after rain. John Mortimer.

    Be a whore still:
    Make use of thy salt hours, season the slaves
    For tubs and baths; bring down the rose-cheek’d youth
    To the tub-fast, and the diet. William Shakespeare, Timon.

    All the charms of love,
    Salt Cleopatra, soften thy wan lip! William Shakespeare, Ant. and Cleop.

    This new married man, approaching here,
    Whose salt imagination yet hath wrong’d
    Your well defended honour, you must pardon. William Shakespeare.

  2. SALTnoun

    1.Salt is a body whose two essential properties seem to be dissolubility in water, and a pungent sapor: it is an active incombustible substance: it gives all bodies consistence, and preserves them from corruption, and occasions all the variety of tastes. There are three kinds of salts, fixed, volatile, and essential: fixed salt is drawn by calcining the matter, then boiling the ashes in a good deal of water: after this the solution is filtrated, and all the moisture evaporated, when the salt remains in a dry form at the bottom: this is called a lixivious salt. Essential salt is that drawn chiefly from the parts of animals, and some putrified parts of vegetables: it rises easily, and is the most volatile of any. The essential salt is drawn from the juice of plants by crystalization. John Harris

    Etymology: salt, Gothick; sealt , Saxon; sal, Latin; sel, French.

    Is not discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue and liberality, the spice and salt that seasons a man? William Shakespeare.

    He perfidiously has given up,
    For certain drops of salt, your city Rome,
    To his wife and mother. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

    Since salts differ much, some being fixt, some volatile, some acid, and some urinous, the two qualities wherein they agree are, that it is easily dissoluble in water, and affects the palate with a sapour, good or evil. Boyle.

    A particle of salt may be compared to a chaos, being dense, hard, dry, and earthy in the centre, and rare, soft, and moist in the circumference. Isaac Newton, Opt.

    Salts are bodies friable and brittle, in some degree pellucid, sharp or pungent to the taste, and dissoluble in water; but after that is evaporated, incorporating, crystalizing, and forming themselves into angular figures. John Woodward.

    Though we are justices and doctors, and churchmen, Mr. Page, we have some salt of our youth in us; we are the sons of women. William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor.

  3. To Saltverb

    To season with salt.

    Etymology: from the noun.

    If the offering was of flesh, it was salted thrice. Brown.

Wikipedia

  1. Salt

    Salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl), a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts; salt in the form of a natural crystalline mineral is known as rock salt or halite. Salt is present in vast quantities in seawater. The open ocean has about 35 g (1.2 oz) of solids per liter of sea water, a salinity of 3.5%. Salt is essential for life in general, and saltiness is one of the basic human tastes. Salt is one of the oldest and most ubiquitous food seasonings, and is known to uniformly improve the taste perception of food, including otherwise unpalatable food. Salting, brining, and pickling are also ancient and important methods of food preservation. Some of the earliest evidence of salt processing dates to around 6,000 BC, when people living in the area of present-day Romania boiled spring water to extract salts; a salt-works in China dates to approximately the same period. Salt was also prized by the ancient Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Hittites, Egyptians, and Indians. Salt became an important article of trade and was transported by boat across the Mediterranean Sea, along specially built salt roads, and across the Sahara on camel caravans. The scarcity and universal need for salt have led nations to go to war over it and use it to raise tax revenues. Salt is used in religious ceremonies and has other cultural and traditional significance. Salt is processed from salt mines, and by the evaporation of seawater (sea salt) and mineral-rich spring water in shallow pools. The greatest single use for salt (sodium chloride) is as a feedstock for the production of chemicals. It is used to produce caustic soda and chlorine; it is also used in the manufacturing processes of polyvinyl chloride, plastics, paper pulp and many other products. Of the annual global production of around three hundred million tonnes of salt, only a small percentage is used for human consumption. Other uses include water conditioning processes, de-icing highways, and agricultural use. Edible salt is sold in forms such as sea salt and table salt which usually contains an anti-caking agent and may be iodised to prevent iodine deficiency. As well as its use in cooking and at the table, salt is present in many processed foods. Sodium is an essential nutrient for human health via its role as an electrolyte and osmotic solute. Excessive salt consumption may increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases, such as hypertension, in children and adults. Such health effects of salt have long been studied. Accordingly, numerous world health associations and experts in developed countries recommend reducing consumption of popular salty foods. The World Health Organization recommends that adults consume less than 2,000 mg of sodium, equivalent to 5 grams of salt per day.

ChatGPT

  1. salt

    Salt is a type of mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl), a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts. It is naturally present in seawater and can also be mined from salt deposits. It is widely used in cooking as a flavor enhancer, preservative and can also be used in industrial applications. In chemistry, salt is produced by the reaction of an acid with a base.

Webster Dictionary

  1. salt

    sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral waters at Epsom, England, -- whence the name; afterwards prepared from sea water; but now from certain minerals, as from siliceous hydrate of magnesia

  2. Saltnoun

    the chloride of sodium, a substance used for seasoning food, for the preservation of meat, etc. It is found native in the earth, and is also produced, by evaporation and crystallization, from sea water and other water impregnated with saline particles

  3. Saltnoun

    hence, flavor; taste; savor; smack; seasoning

  4. Saltnoun

    hence, also, piquancy; wit; sense; as, Attic salt

  5. Saltnoun

    a dish for salt at table; a saltcellar

  6. Saltnoun

    a sailor; -- usually qualified by old

  7. Saltnoun

    the neutral compound formed by the union of an acid and a base; thus, sulphuric acid and iron form the salt sulphate of iron or green vitriol

  8. Saltnoun

    fig.: That which preserves from corruption or error; that which purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction; as, his statements must be taken with a grain of salt

  9. Saltnoun

    any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt

  10. Saltnoun

    marshes flooded by the tide

  11. Saltnoun

    of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; salt water

  12. Saltnoun

    overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass

  13. Saltnoun

    fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent

  14. Saltnoun

    fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful

  15. Saltverb

    to sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt cattle

  16. Saltverb

    to fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber

  17. Saltverb

    to deposit salt as a saline solution; as, the brine begins to salt

  18. Saltnoun

    the act of leaping or jumping; a leap

  19. Etymology: [L. saltus, fr. salire to leap.]

Wikidata

  1. Salt

    In chemistry, salts are ionic compounds that result from the neutralization reaction of an acid and a base. They are composed of related numbers of cations and anions so that the product is electrically neutral. These component ions can be inorganic such as chloride, as well as organic such as acetate and monatomic ions such as fluoride, as well as polyatomic ions such as sulfate. There are several varieties of salts. Salts that hydrolyze to produce hydroxide ions when dissolved in water are basic salts and salts that hydrolyze to produce hydronium ions in water are acid salts. Neutral salts are those that are neither acid nor basic salts. Zwitterions contain an anionic center and a cationic center in the same molecule but are not considered to be salts. Examples include amino acids, many metabolites, peptides, and proteins. Usually non-dissolved salts in standard temperature and pressure are in solid state of matter, but there are exceptions. Molten salts and solutions containing dissolved salts are called electrolytes, as they are able to conduct electricity. As observed in the cytoplasm of cells, in blood, urine, plant saps and mineral waters, mixtures of many different ions in solution usually do not form defined salts after evaporation of the water. Therefore, their salt content is given for the respective ions.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Salt

    sawlt, n. chloride of sodium, or common salt, a well-known substance used for seasoning, found either in the earth or obtained by evaporation from sea-water: anything like salt: seasoning: piquancy: abatement, modification, allowance: an experienced sailor: that which preserves from corruption: an antiseptic: (chem.) a body composed of an acid and a base united in definite proportions, or of bromine, chlorine, fluorine, or iodine, with a metal or metalloid: (obs.) lust.—v.t. to sprinkle or season with salt: to fill with salt between the timbers for preservation.—adj. containing salt: tasting of salt: overflowed with, or growing in, salt-water: pungent: lecherous: (coll.) costly, expensive—ns. Salt′-block, a salt-evaporating apparatus; Salt′-bott′om, a flat piece of ground covered with saline efflorescences: Salt′-bush, an Australian plant of the goose-foot family; Salt′-cake, the crude sodium sulphate occurring as a by-product in the manufacture of hydrochloric acid; Salt′-cat, a mixture given as a digestive to pigeons; Salt′er, one who salts, or who makes, sells, or deals in salt, as in Drysalter: a trout leaving salt-water to ascend a stream; Sal′tern, salt-works; Salt′-foot, a large saltcellar marking the boundary between the superior and inferior guests; Salt′-gauge, an instrument for testing the strength of brine; Salt′-glaze, a glaze produced upon ceramic ware by putting common salt in the kilns after they have been fired.—adj. Salt′-green (Shak.), sea-green.—ns. Salt′-group, a series of rocks containing salt, as the Onondaga salt-group; Salt′-hold′er, a saltcellar; Salt′-horse, salted beef; Salt′ie, the salt-water fluke or dab; Salt′ing, the act of sprinkling with salt: the celebration of the Eton 'Montem.'—adj. Salt′ish, somewhat salt.—adv. Salt′ishly, so as to be moderately salt.—ns. Salt′ishness, a moderate degree of saltness; Salt′-junk, hard salt beef for use at sea.—adj. Salt′less, without salt: tasteless.—n. Salt′-lick, a place to which animals resort for salt.—adv. Salt′ly.—ns. Salt′-marsh, land liable to be overflowed by the sea or the waters of estuaries; Salt′-marsh cat′erpillar, the hairy larva of an arctiid moth; Salt′-marsh hen, a clapper-rail; Salt′-marsh terr′apin, the diamond-backed turtle; Salt′-mine, a mine where rock-salt is obtained; Salt′ness, impregnation with salt; Salt′-pan, a pan, basin, or pit where salt is obtained or made; Salt′-pit, a pit where salt is obtained; Salt′-rheum, a cutaneous eruption; Salts, Epsom salt or other salt used as a medicine.—adj. Salt′-sliv′ered, slivered and salted, as fish for bait.—ns. Salt′-spoon, a small spoon for serving salt at table; Salt′-spring, a brine-spring; Salt′-wa′ter, water impregnated with salt, sea-water; Salt′-works, a place where salt is made; Salt′-wort, a genus of plants of many species, mostly natives of salt-marshes and sea-shores, one only being found in Britain, the Prickly S., which was formerly burned for the soda it yielded.—adj. Salt′y (same as Saltish).—Salt a mine, to deposit ore in it cunningly so as to deceive persons who inspect it regarding its value; Salt of lemon, or sorrel, acid potassium oxalate, a solvent for ink-stains; Salt of soda, sodium carbonate; Salt of tartar, a commercial name for purified potassium carbonate; Salt of vitriol, sulphate of zinc; Salt of wormwood, carbonate of potash.—Above the salt, at the upper half of the table, among the guests of distinction; Attic salt, wit; Below the salt, at the lower half of the table; Be not worth one's salt, not to deserve even the salt that gives relish to one's food; Bronzing salt, used in burning gun-barrels; Epsom salts, magnesium sulphate, a cathartic; Essential salts, those produced from the juices of plants by crystallisation; Glauber's salt, or Horse salts, a well-known cathartic, used in woollen dyeing; Lay salt on the tail of, to catch; Neutral salt, a salt in which the acid and the base neutralise each other; Rochelle salt, sodium potassium tartrate, a laxative; Spirits of salt, the old name for muriatic or hydrochloric acid; Take with a grain of salt, to believe with some reserve. [A.S. sealt; cf. Ger. salz, also L. sal, Gr. hals.]

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. salt

    A tiny bit of near-random data inserted where too much regularity would be undesirable; a data frob (sense 1). For example, the Unix crypt(3) man page mentions that “the salt string is used to perturb the DES algorithm in one of 4096 different ways.”

The Standard Electrical Dictionary

  1. Salt

    A salt is a chemical compound containing two atoms of two radicals,. which saturate each other. One atom or radical is electro-positive referred to the other, which is electro-negative. By electrolysis salts are decomposed, the atoms or radicals separating and uniting to form new molecules.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. salt

    A weather-beaten sailor. One of the old seamen who not only have known but have felt what war was.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SALT

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Salt is ranked #23153 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Salt surname appeared 1,102 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Salt.

    58% or 640 total occurrences were White.
    30.7% or 339 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    6.2% or 69 total occurrences were Asian.
    2.4% or 27 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'SALT' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3553

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'SALT' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2208

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'SALT' in Nouns Frequency: #1309

Anagrams for SALT »

  1. last

  2. lats

  3. slat

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of SALT in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of SALT in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of SALT in a Sentence

  1. Jamie Raskin:

    We've got to have a SALT march, like Gandhi did, let's have a SALT march in America to restore some common sense to our tax policy.

  2. Cat Ellington:

    Songwriters are the salt of the Earth.

  3. Humphrey Knight:

    Should the company be forced to file for bankruptcy protection, we don't believe this would materially impact its potash business, however, if this did result in a slowdown in Qinghai Salt Lake's potash production then this would hand the advantage to overseas producers as it could increase China's dependency on potash imports.

  4. The Talmud:

    There are three things which, in great quantity, are bad, and, in little, very good: leaven, salt, and liberality.

  5. Guanyu Huang:

    If we combine all the data from all the cities together, Salt Lake City will be helpful for all levels of government from state level, federal level to create some climate resilience plan for the entire country. So, that's what we can do through here. we can use it to do research, to teach your climate change classes, to tell the people that climate change is actually right there, it's just next to our neighborhood.

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