salt

Meanings

Plural: salts

Noun

a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
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
the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
A sailor (also old salt).
A sequence of random data added to plain text data (such as passwords or messages) prior to encryption or hashing, in order to make brute force decryption more difficult.
A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
Flavour; taste; seasoning.
Piquancy; wit; sense.
A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine.
Skepticism and common sense.
Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing.
The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem.
A bounding; a leaping; a prance.

Verb

add salt to
sprinkle as if with salt
- "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps"
add zest or liveliness to
- "She salts her lectures with jokes"
preserve with salt
- "people used to salt meats on ships"
To add salt to.
To deposit salt as a saline solution.
To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.
To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
To add bogus evidence to an archaeological site.
To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
To add certain chemical elements to (a nuclear or conventional weapon) so that it generates more radiation.
To sprinkle throughout.
To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
To render a thing useless.
To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.
To render a thing useless.
To lock a page title so it cannot be created.

Adjective Satellite

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

Adj

Of water: containing salt, saline.
Treated with salt as a preservative; cured with salt, salted.
Of land, fields etc.: flooded by the sea.
Of plants: growing in the sea or on land flooded by the sea.
Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
Bitter; sharp; pungent.
Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.
Costly; expensive.

Origin / Etymology

PIE word
*séh₂ls
From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-West Germanic *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls (“salt”). Doublet of sal, ultimately from Latin sāl (“salt”), which it superseded as the general term for "salt".

Synonyms

common salt, sal, salinity, salt down, saltiness, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, table salt

Antonyms

desalt

Scrabble Score: 4

salt is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
salt is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
salt is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 5

salt is a valid Words With Friends word