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1  [sawlt]
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–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: garlic salt; celery salt.
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: Anecdotes are the salt of his narrative.
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, esp. an old or experienced one.
–verb (used with object)
9. to season with salt.
10. to cure, preserve, or treat with salt.
11. to furnish with salt: to salt cattle.
12. to treat with common salt or with any chemical salt.
13. to spread salt, esp. rock salt, on so as to melt snow or ice: The highway department salted the roads after the storm.
14. 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.
15. to add interest or excitement to: a novel salted with witty dialogue.
–adjective
16. containing salt; having the taste of salt: salt water.
17. cured or preserved with salt: salt cod.
18. inundated by or growing in salt water: salt marsh.
19. producing the one of the four basic taste sensations that is not sweet, sour, or bitter.
20. pungent or sharp: salt speech.
—Verb phrases
21. salt away,
a. Also, salt down. to preserve by adding quantities of salt to, as meat.
b. Informal. to keep in reserve; store away; save: to salt away most of one's earnings.
22. salt out, to separate (a dissolved substance) from a solution by the addition of a salt, esp. common salt.
—Idioms
23. with a grain of salt, with reserve or allowance; with an attitude of skepticism: Diplomats took the reports of an impending crisis with a grain of salt.
24. worth one's salt, deserving of one's wages or salary: We couldn't find an assistant worth her salt.
Origin:
bef. 900; (n. and adj.) ME; OE sealt; c. G Salz, ON, Goth salt; akin to L sāl, Gk háls (see halo- ); (v.) ME salten, OE s(e)altan; cf. OHG salzan, ON salta, D zouten; see salary

Related forms:
saltlike, adjective

Synonyms:
5. flavor, savor. 8. See sailor.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 2salt
Function: adjective
1 : SALINE, SALTY
2 : being or inducing the one of the four basic taste sensations that is suggestive of seawater—compare BITTER, SOUR, SWEET
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salt (sôlt)
n.

  1. A colorless or white crystalline solid, chiefly sodium chloride, used extensively as a food seasoning and preservative.

  2. A chemical compound replacing all or part of the hydrogen ions of an acid with metal ions or electropositive radicals.

  3. salts Any of various mineral salts, such as magnesium sulfate, sodium sulfate, or potassium sodium tartrate, used as laxatives or cathartics.

  4. salts Smelling salts.

  5. salts Epsom salts.

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salt   (sôlt)  Pronunciation Key 

  1. Any of a large class of chemical compounds formed when a positively charged ion (a cation) bonds with a negatively charged ion (an anion), as when a halogen bonds with a metal. Salts are water soluble; when dissolved, the ions are freed from each other, and the electrical conductivity of the water is increased. See more at complex salt, double salt, simple salt.

  2. A colorless or white crystalline salt in which a sodium atom (the cation) is bonded to a chlorine atom (the anion). This salt is found naturally in all animal fluids, in seawater, and in underground deposits (when it is often called halite). It is used widely as a food seasoning and preservative. Also called common salt, sodium chloride, table salt. Chemical formula: NaCl.


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