26984 words

salt

13 definitions • 15 examples
1
a common white substance found in sea water and in the ground, used especially to add flavour to food or to preserve it:

Examples:

salt and pepper
Can you pass the salt, please?
Add a pinch of (= small amount of) salt to the sauce.
2
a chemical substance that is a combination of a metal or a base with an acid:
3
containing or preserved in salt:

Examples:

salt water
salt cod/pork
4
to add salt to or put salt on something:

Examples:

Don't forget to salt the potatoes.
When it's icy, the city salts the roads to thaw the ice.
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abbreviation for Strategic Arms Limitation Talks: a series of discussions between the US and the USSR that took place from 1969 to 1979 and aimed to limit the number of nuclear weapons
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a common, white substance, found in sea water and in the ground, used to add flavor to food or to preserve it:

Examples:

a grain of salt
Please pass the salt and pepper.
Add a pinch of salt (= small amount of it).
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a chemical substance made with an acid
10
Salt is used to melt ice on roads and sidewalks in the winter.
11
to add salt to food:

Examples:

She salted and peppered her stew.
12
to put salt on roads and sidewalks in the winter:

Examples:

Work crews were busy plowing and salting roads.
13
containing or tasting of salt, or preserved with salt:

Examples:

a salt pond/lake
salt pork/cod

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