Salt — synonyms, definition

1. salt (a)

acrid alkaline brackish briny cured marinated pickled preserved salted salty sour

2. salt (Noun)

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salt (Noun) — 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.

salt (Noun) — The taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth.

salt (Noun) — White crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food.

salt (Noun) — A compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal).

salt (Noun) — (cryptography) random content added to a message before encryption in order to make decryption more difficult.

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3. salt (Verb)

add salt can corn cure flavor flavour keep pep up pepper pickle preserve season spice spice up

salt (Verb) — (cooking) add salt to.

salt (Verb) — Sprinkle as if with salt. ex. "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps"

salt (Verb) — Add zest or liveliness to. ex. "She salts her lectures with jokes"

salt (Verb) — (cooking) preserve with salt. ex. "people used to salt meats on ships"

flavor flavour keep preserve season spice spice up splash splosh sprinkle

4. salt (Adjective)

salt (Adjective) — (of speech) painful or bitter. ex. "salt scorn" ex. "a salt apology"