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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. (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"

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