salt

A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a food ingredient, seasoning, condiment, and preservative.

Near-synonyms: table salt, rock salt, road salt

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One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.

A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.

A sailor (also old salt).

Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts.

I never go as a passenger; nor, though I am something of a salt, do I ever go to sea as a Commodore, or a Captain, or a Cook.

A sequence of random data added to plain text data (such as passwords or messages) prior to encryption or hashing, in order to make brute force decryption more difficult.

Of water: containing salt, saline.

Why the Sea is Salt

After a few days of north-west wind, the waters of the Gordon will be found salt for twelve miles up from the bar.

Treated with salt as a preservative; cured with salt, salted.

salt beef

Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm.

Of land, fields etc.: flooded by the sea.

a salt marsh

Of plants: growing in the sea or on land flooded by the sea.

salt grass

Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.

a salt mine

The salt factory is a key connecting element in the seawater infrastructure.

To add salt to.

to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter

To deposit salt as a saline solution.

The brine begins to salt.

To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.

To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.

To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.