salt
sawlt
- n a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
- n white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
- n 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
- n the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
- v add salt to
- v sprinkle as if with salt
the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps - v add zest or liveliness to
She salts her lectures with jokes - v preserve with salt
people used to salt meats on ships - s (of speech) painful or bitter
salt scorn"- Shakespeare
a salt apology
- Americans consume way, way too much salt.
- Sea salt, like table salt, is made of sodium chloride.
- Tom Grill Corbis In the past four decades, Americans' salt consumption has risen 50%, mostly as a result of eating more processed foods and more food prepared in restaurants .