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salt   (TTS Sound)

The noun salt has 4 senses

• salt -- (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))


• salt, table salt, common salt -- (white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food)


• Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, SALT -- (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, saltiness, salinity -- (the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth)

The verb salt has 4 senses

• salt -- (add salt to)


• salt -- (sprinkle as if with salt; "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps")


• salt -- (add zest or liveliness to; "She salts her lectures with jokes")


• salt -- (preserve with salt; "people used to salt meats on ships")

The adj salt has 1 sense

• salt -- ((of speech) painful or bitter; "salt scorn"- Shakespeare; "a salt apology")