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BNC: 2536 COCA: 1571

salt

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noun

1

a

: a crystalline compound NaCl that consists of sodium chloride, is abundant in nature, and is used especially to season or preserve food or in industry

called also common salt

b

: a substance (such as Glauber's salt) resembling common salt

c salts plural

(1)

: a mineral or saline mixture (such as Epsom salts) used as an aperient or cathartic

(2)

: smelling salts

d

: any of various compounds that result from replacement of part or all of the acid hydrogen of an acid by a metal or a group acting like a metal : an ionic crystalline compound

2

: a container for salt at table

—often used in the phrases above the salt and below the salt alluding to the former custom of seating persons of higher rank above and those of lower rank below a saltcellar placed in the middle of a long table

3

a

: an ingredient that gives savor, piquancy, or zest : flavor

a people … full of life, vigor, and the salt of personality

Clifton Fadiman

b

: sharpness of wit : pungency

c

d

: reserve, skepticism see grain of salt

e

: a dependable steadfast person or group of people

—usually used in the phrase salt of the earth

4

a tale worthy of an old salt

5

—usually used in the phrase worth one's salt

saltlike

adjective

salt

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verb

salted; salting; salts

transitive verb

1

a

: to treat, provide, or season with common salt

salt the food

salt a driveway

b

: to preserve (food) with salt or in brine

a supply of salted beef/fish

c

: to supply (an animal) with salt

the field where cattle are salted

2

: to give flavor or piquancy to (something, such as a story)

3

a

: to enrich (a mine) artificially by secretly placing valuable mineral in some of the working places

b

: to add something to secretly

salted the files with forged papers

also : to insert or place secretly

salted the mines along the road

4

a

: to sprinkle with or as if with a salt

b

: scatter, intersperse

salter

noun

salt

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adjective (1)

1

a

: full of or containing salt : saline, salty sense 1a

salt tears

a salt solution

b

: being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is suggestive of seawater : salty sense 1b compare bitter entry 1 sense 1a, sour entry 1 sense 1, sweet entry 1 sense 1, umami entry 2

2

: cured or seasoned with salt : salted

salt cod

3

: overflowed with salt water

a salt pond

4

: sharp, pungent

saltness noun

salt

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adjective (2)

obsolete

: lustful, lascivious

SALT

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abbreviation

1

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

2

state and local taxes

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Middle English, from Old English sealt; akin to Old High German salz salt, Lithuanian saldus sweet, Latin sal salt, Greek hals salt, sea

Adjective (2)

by shortening & alteration from assaut, from Middle English, from Anglo-French en saut in rut

First Known Use

Noun

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Verb

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Adjective (1)

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Adjective (2)

1598, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler

The first known use of salt was before the 12th century

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