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salt
/sɑlt/
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What does salt mean?
noun
- A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a food ingredient, seasoning, condiment, and preservative.
- One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
- A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
More meanings (36)
noun
- (slang) A sailor (also old salt).
- A sequence of random data added to plain text data (such as passwords or messages) prior to encryption or hashing, in order to make brute force decryption more difficult.
- A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
- (figuratively) Skepticism and common sense.
- Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing.
- Acronym of state and local tax(es) [deduction], a tax deduction whereby some portion of the money paid as taxes to state and local governments is not taxed at the federal level; the tax-deductible portion is nominally capped, but the cap is circumventable via special-interest loopholes.
- Acronym of speech and language therapist.
- Acronym of speech and language therapy.
- (obsolete) Flavour; taste; seasoning.
- (obsolete) Piquancy; wit; sense.
- (obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
- (historical) Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine.
- (historical) The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem.
- (obsolete) A bounding; a leaping; a prance.
adjective
- Of water: containing salt, saline.
- Treated with salt as a preservative; cured with salt, salted.
- Of land, fields etc.: flooded by the sea.
- Of plants: growing in the sea or on land flooded by the sea.
- Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
- (figuratively, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.
- (figuratively, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.
- (archaic) Costly; expensive.
verb
- To add salt to.
- To deposit salt as a saline solution.
- To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.
- To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
- To add bogus evidence to an archaeological site.
- To add certain chemical elements to (a nuclear or conventional weapon) so that it generates more radiation.
- To sprinkle throughout.
- To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
- To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.
- To lock a page title so it cannot be created.
- To seek employment at a company in order to help unionize it.
proper noun
- A village in Salt and Enson parish, Stafford borough, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9527).
- A surname.
- (historical) Acronym of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
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“I want something to eat. I won’t say a word until I get some peptone into my arteries. Thanks. And the salt.”
“Yes, the ocean has indeed circulation, and to promote it, the Creator has caused things to multiply in it—caloric, salt, and animalculae.”
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An end was put to the melee, by the captain’s calling the ship’s company to put the salt water mobocrats in irons.
Friedrichs suggested that she fell into the sea and that the salt stiffened around her clothing, thus making a statue of her.
This lake they say changes at intervals of time, and is sometimes sweet, and sometimes so salt that it cannot be drunk.