salt (n.)

  1. a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

  2. white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food

    [ Syn: table salt , common salt ]

  3. 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

    [ Syn: strategic arms limitation talks , salt ]

  4. the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth

    [ Syn: saltiness , salinity ]

    salt (adj.)

  1. (of speech) painful or bitter; salt scorn- Shakespeare; a salt apology'

    salt (v.)

  1. add salt to

  2. sprinkle as if with salt; the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps'

  3. add zest or liveliness to; She salts her lectures with jokes'

  4. preserve with salt; people used to salt meats on ships'

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