salt

/sˈɔlt/

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Adjective Satellite
(of speech) painful or bitter; "salt scorn"- Shakespeare; "a salt apology"
Noun
a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
Noun
white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
Noun
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
Noun
the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
Verb
add salt to
Verb
sprinkle as if with salt; "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps"
Verb
add zest or liveliness to; "She salts her lectures with jokes"
Verb
preserve with salt; "people used to salt meats on ships"
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