Salt
nounsɔlt
Adjective
(of speech) painful or bitter
“salt scorn”
“a salt apology”
Noun
the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
Similar:SalinitySaltinessType of:Tastewhite crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
Type of:SeasonerFlavouringFlavoringnegotiations 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
a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
Type of:Compound
Verb
add zest or liveliness to
“She salts her lectures with jokes”
Type of:Spicepreserve with salt
“people used to salt meats on ships”
Type of:PreserveKeepsprinkle as if with salt
“the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps”
Type of:SplashSploshSprinkleadd salt to
Type of:SeasonFlavorFlavour
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