Definitions for SALT

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SALT salt

Spelling: [sawlt]

IPA: /sɔlt/

Salt is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in SALT (alst).

Definitions for SALT

noun

1. a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc.
2. table salt mixed with a particular herb or seasoning for which it is named:
3. Chemistry. any of a class of compounds formed by the replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms of an acid with elements or groups, which are composed of anions and cations, and which usually ionize in solution; a product formed by the neutralization of an acid by a base.
4. salts, any of various salts used as purgatives, as Epsom salts.
5. an element that gives liveliness, piquancy, or pungency:
6. wit; pungency.
7. a small, usually open dish, as of silver or glass, used on the table for holding salt.
8. Informal. a sailor, especially an old or experienced one:
9. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
10. See under Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
11. See under Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.

Idioms

1. rub salt in / into someone's wounds, to make someone's bad situation even worse.
2. with a grain / pinch of salt, with reserve or allowance; with an attitude of skepticism:
3. worth one's salt, deserving of one's wages or salary:

adjective

1. containing salt; having the taste of salt:
2. cured or preserved with salt:
3. inundated by or growing in salt water:
4. producing the one of the four basic taste sensations that is not sweet, sour, or bitter.
5. pungent or sharp:
6. lustful; lecherous.

Verb phrases

1. salt away, Also, salt down. to preserve by adding quantities of salt to, as meat. Informal. to keep in reserve; store away; save:
2. salt out, to separate (a dissolved substance) from a solution by the addition of a salt, especially common salt.

verb (used with object)

1. to season with salt.
2. to cure, preserve, or treat with salt.
3. to furnish with salt:
4. to treat with common salt or with any chemical salt.
5. to spread salt, especially rock salt, on so as to melt snow or ice:
6. to introduce rich ore or other valuable matter fraudulently into (a mine, the ground, a mineral sample, etc.) to create a false impression of value.
7. to add interest or excitement to:

Origin of SALT

before 900; (noun and adj.) Middle English; Old English sealt; cognate with German Salz, Old Norse, Gothic salt; akin to Latin sāl, Greek háls (see halo-); (v.) Middl

Examples for SALT

Rub the loin with olive oil, and season with salt and pepper.

Place the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt on parchment or wax paper.

As our horses would not drink it, it can be imagined how salt it was.

The immense pools in the Phillips were as salt as sea water.

Remove from heat and stir in the walnuts, rum, powdered sugar, and salt until fully incorporated.

A salt lake was visible a few miles to the east, towards which we proceeded.

And they submitted to this without a murmur; but all sighed for salt!

Whisk in the half and half and season to taste with salt and pepper.

Bring a large pot of water to a boil and season liberally with salt.

It flowed out into a large flat, and finally runs into a salt lake.