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nounthe taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
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nounnegotiations 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
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nounwhite crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
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nouna compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)type of:
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verbadd salt to
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verbadd zest or liveliness to
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adjective(of speech) painful or bitter
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verbpreserve with salt
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verbsprinkle as if with salt
Examples of salt
- "She salts her lectures with jokes"
- "salt scorn"
- "a salt apology"
- "people used to salt meats on ships"
- "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps"