salt

phonetic symbol: / sɔ́lt / 

salt - English Dictionary

[ noun ]
■ the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
salinity , saltiness

[ noun ]
■ 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
strategic arms limitation talks

[ noun ]
■ white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
common salt , table salt

[ noun ]
■ a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

[ verb ]
■ preserve with salt
e.g.)
・people used to salt meats on ships

[ verb ]
■ add zest or liveliness to
e.g.)
・She salts her lectures with jokes

[ verb ]
■ sprinkle as if with salt
e.g.)
・the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps

[ verb ]
■ add salt to

[ adjective satellite ]
■ (of speech) painful or bitter
e.g.)
・salt scorn
・a salt apology

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