salt
adjective
- 1
(of speech) painful or bitter
salt scorn"- Shakespeare
a salt apology
noun
- 1
the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
- 2
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
- 3
white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
- 4
a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
verb
- 1
preserve with salt
people used to salt meats on ships
- 2
add zest or liveliness to
She salts her lectures with jokes
- 3
sprinkle as if with salt
the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps
- 4
add salt to
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