Salt - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
- 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
- the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth (syn: salinity, saltiness)
verb
- sprinkle as if with salt
adjective
a salt apology
Extra examples
The soup needs a little more salt.
Season the meat with salt and pepper.
The food was pure salt.
If the beans are salted down they will keep all winter.
The meat can be salted away for the winter.
The book is a little dull, and needs salting with some interesting examples.
This might need some salt and pepper.
Could you pass the salt?
The meat is salted to store it through the winter.
She salts her lectures with jokes
The salt crystals separated out of the liquid.
He forgot his manners and reached across the table for the salt.
She was told to restrict the amount of salt she uses.
She poured salt into the palm of her hand and then sprinkled it over the stew.
Salt can be used to preserve meat.
Phrasal verbs
Word forms
I/you/we/they: salt
he/she/it: salts
present participle: salting
past tense: salted
past participle: salted
singular: salt
plural: salts
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