Salt - English meaning
Salt – definitions in English dictionary
nounA white crystalline substance that gives seawater its characteristic taste and is used for seasoning or preserving food.
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Add the braised chicken and season to taste with salt and pepper sauce.nounAny chemical compound formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, with all or part of the hydrogen of the acid replaced by a metal or other cation.
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Amides are hydrolysed to ammonium salts with catalysis by acids or alkalis.
adjectiveImpregnated with, treated with, or tasting of salt.
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Salt wateradjective(of a plant) growing on the coast or in salt marshes.
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The region is rich in salt plant communities and reed beds
verbSeason or preserve with salt.
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After stuffing the fish, i salted and peppered itverbSprinkle (a road or path) with salt in order to melt snow or ice.
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Local authorities worked to improve travel conditions by gritting and salting roadsverbFraudulently make (a mine) appear to be a profitable one by placing rich ore into it.
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I shall want to see some evidence that there really is a seam—no salting it, no faking
abbreviationStrategic arms limitation talks.
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Word origin
Old English sealt (noun), sealtan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zout and German Salz (nouns), from an Indo-European root shared by Latin sal, Greek hals ‘salt’.
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