1. (n.)salt a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring chiefly as a mineral or a constituent of seawater, and used for seasoning food and as a preservative.
2. salt any of a class of chemical compounds formed by neutralization of an acid by a base, a reaction in which hydrogen atoms of the acid are replaced by cations supplied by the base.
3. salt table salt mixed with an herb or seasoning as named: onion salt.
4. salt an element that gives liveliness or pungency.
5. salt sharp, biting wit.
6. salt a sailor, esp. an old or experienced one.
7. (v.t.)salt to season with salt.
8. salt to cure or preserve with salt.
9. salt to provide with salt: to salt cattle.
10. salt to treat with common salt or with any chemical salt.
11. salt to spread salt on so as to melt snow or ice.
12. salt to introduce rich ore fraudulently into (a mine, a mineral sample, etc.) to create a false impression of value.
13. salt Also,
14. salt to save (money) for future use.
15. (adj.)salt containing salt, or tasting of salt: a salt drink.
1. (noun)salt a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
2. (noun)salt, table salt, common salt white crystalline form of especially sodiumchloride used to season and preserve food
3. (noun)Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, 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. (adj)salt, saltiness, salinity the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
5. (verb)salt (of speech) painful or bitter "salt scorn"- Shakespeare; "a salt apology"
6. (verb)salt add salt to
7. (verb)salt sprinkle as if with salt "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps"
8. (verb)salt add zest or liveliness to "She salts her lectures with jokes"
9. (verb)salt preserve with salt "people used to salt meats on ships"
1. (noun)salt a white substance used to add flavor to food a pinch of salt; Put plenty of salt in the water.
2. salt take sth with a grain of salt not to take sth too seriously Take everything he says with a grain of salt.
3. salt take sth with a pinch of salt take sth with a grain of salt
4. (verb)salt to add salt to food Salt the potatoes and add a little butter.
Definition of 'SALT'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)SALT 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. (noun)SALT hence, also, piquancy; wit; sense; as, Attic salt
4. (noun)SALT a dish for salt at table; a saltcellar
5. (noun)SALT a sailor; -- usually qualified by old
6. (noun)SALT 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
7. (noun)SALT 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
8. (noun)SALT any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt
9. (noun)SALT marshes flooded by the tide
10. (noun)SALT of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; saltwater
14. (noun)SALT the act of leaping or jumping; a leap
15. SALT sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boilingdown the mineralwaters at Epsom, England, -- whence the name; afterwards prepared from sea water; but now from certain minerals, as from siliceous hydrate of magnesia
16. (verb)SALT 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 saltcattle
17. (verb)SALT to fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber
1. SALT A tiny bit of near-random data inserted where too much regularity
would be undesirable; a datafrob (sense 1). For
example, the Unixcrypt(3) man page mentions that “the saltstring is
used to perturb the DES algorithm in one of 4096 different
ways.”
Definition of 'SALT'
The Standard Electrical Dictionary
1. SALT A salt is a chemicalcompound 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.
Definitions of SALT 
Afrikaans: sout
Arabic: مِلْح
Bulgarian: сол
Brazilian: sal
Czech: sůl
German: das Salz
Danish: salt
Greek: αλάτι
Spanish: sal
Estonian: sool
Farsi: نمك
Finnish: suola
French: sel
Hebrew: מֶלַח
Hindi: नमक
Croatian: sol, natrijev klorid
Hungarian: só
Indonesian: garam
Icelandic: salt
Italian: sale
Japanese: 塩
Korean: 소금
Lithuanian: druska
Latvian: sāls
Malay: garam
Dutch: zout
Norwegian: salt
Polish: sól
Persian: نمك
Pashto: مالګه
Portuguese: sal
Romanian: sare
Russian: соль
Slovak: soľ
Slovenian: sol
Serbian: so
Swedish: salt
Thai: เกลือ
Turkish: tuz
Taiwanese: 鹽
Ukrainian: кухонна сіль
Urdu: نمک
Vietnamese: muối
Chinese: 盐
