salts

Meanings

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
• plural of salt

Verb

• add salt to
• sprinkle as if with salt
• add zest or liveliness to
  • "She salts her lectures with jokes"
• preserve with salt
• third-person singular simple present indicative of salt

Synonyms

common salt, salinity, SALT, salt, saltiness, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, table salt