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Words with a similar base: common_salt, salt, saltiness, table_salt

'salt'

[salt.n.01] as in: a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

'salt'

[salt.n.02] as in: white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food

'salt'

[strategic_arms_limitation_talks.n.01] as in: 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

'salt'

[salt.n.04] as in: the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth

'salt'

[salt.v.01] as in: add salt to

'salt'

[salt.v.02] as in: sprinkle as if with salt

Examples:
the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps

'salt'

[salt.v.03] as in: add zest or liveliness to

Examples:
She salts her lectures with jokes

'salt'

[salt.v.04] as in: preserve with salt

Examples:
people used to salt meats on ships

'salt'

[salt.s.01] as in: (of speech) painful or bitter; - Shakespeare

Examples:
salt scorn
a salt apology

Origins

					salt (English)
└── sealt (Old English (ca. 450-1100))