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Definition of 'salt'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

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.

16.  salt
cured or preserved with salt:
salt cod.

17.  salt
inundated by salt water.

18. (n.) SALT
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (or Treaty).

Definition of 'salt'

Princeton's WordNet

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"

Definition of 'salt'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

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

2. (noun) salt
hence, flavor; taste; savor; smack; seasoning

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; salt water

11. (noun) salt
overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass

12. (noun) salt
fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent

13. (noun) salt
fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful

14. (noun) salt
the act of leaping or jumping; a leap

15. 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

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 salt cattle

17. (verb) salt
to fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber

18. (verb) salt
to deposit salt as a saline solution; as, the brine begins to salt

Definitions of 'salt'

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.”

Definition of 'salt'

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.

Translation of 'salt'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: (alsocommon salt) sodium chloride, a white substance frequently used for seasoning The soup needs more 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
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