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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
sodium
chloride
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.
(noun)
salt
,
saltiness
,
salinity
the
taste
experience
when
common
salt
is taken into the
mouth
5.
(adj)
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"
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