salt
noun
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Definition of salt
(Entry 1 of 6)
1a
: a crystalline compound NaCl that consists of sodium chloride, is abundant in nature, and is used especially to season or preserve food or in industry
— called also common salt
b
: a substance (such as Glauber's salt) resembling common salt
c salts plural
(1)
: a mineral or saline mixture (such as Epsom salts) used as an aperient or cathartic
(2)
: smelling salts
d
: any of various compounds that result from replacement of part or all of the acid hydrogen of an acid by a metal or a group acting like a metal : an ionic crystalline compound
2
: a container for salt at table
—often used in the phrases above the salt and below the salt alluding to the former custom of seating persons of higher rank above and those of lower rank below a saltcellar placed in the middle of a long table
3a
: an ingredient that gives savor, piquancy, or zest : flavor
a people … full of life, vigor, and the salt of personality— Clifton Fadiman
b
: sharpness of wit : pungency
c
: common sense
d
: reserve, skepticism — see grain of salt
e
: a dependable steadfast person or group of people
—usually used in the phrase salt of the earth
4
: sailor
a tale worthy of an old salt
5
: keep sense 1
—usually used in the phrase worth one's salt
salt
verb
salted;
salting;
salts
Definition of salt (Entry 2 of 6)
1a
: to treat, provide, or season with common salt
salt the food salt a driveway
b
: to preserve (food) with salt or in brine
a supply of salted beef/fish
c
: to supply (an animal) with salt
the field where cattle are salted
2
: to give flavor or piquancy to (something, such as a story)
3a
: to enrich (a mine) artificially by secretly placing valuable mineral in some of the working places
b
: to add something to secretly
salted the files with forged papers
also
: to insert or place secretly
salted the mines along the road
4a
: to sprinkle with or as if with a salt
b
: scatter, intersperse
salt
adjective (1)Definition of salt (Entry 3 of 6)
1a
: full of or containing salt : saline, salty sense 1a
salt tears a salt solution
b
: being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is suggestive of seawater : salty sense 1b — compare bitter entry 1 sense 1a, sour entry 1 sense 1, sweet entry 1 sense 1, umami entry 2
2
: cured or seasoned with salt : salted
salt cod
3
: overflowed with salt water
a salt pond
salt
adjective (2)Definition of salt (Entry 4 of 6)
obsolete
SALT
abbreviation
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Definition of SALT (Entry 5 of 6)
1
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
2
state and local taxes
Salt
geographical name
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Definition of Salt (Entry 6 of 6)
1
river 200 miles (322 kilometers) long in Arizona flowing west into the Gila River
2
river 100 miles (161 kilometers) long in north central Kentucky flowing into the Ohio River
3
river 200 miles (322 kilometers) long in northeastern Missouri flowing southeast into the Mississippi River
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Other Words from salt
Noun
saltlike
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adjective
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adjective
Verb
salter
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noun
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noun
Adjective (1)
saltness
noun