Search Result:SALT


KK Pronunciation

〔 sɒlt 〕

Pronunciation

〔 sɒ:lt 〕


Overview of noun salt

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)


Overview of verb salt

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")


Overview of adj salt

The adj salt has 1 sense


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