Main entry: salinity, salt, saltiness
Definition: the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
Main entry: SALT, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
Definition: 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
Main entry: table salt, salt, common salt
Definition: white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
Main entry: salt
Definition: a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
Main entry: salt
Definition: preserve with salt
Usage: people used to salt meats on ships
Main entry: salt
Definition: add zest or liveliness to
Usage: She salts her lectures with jokes
Main entry: salt
Definition: sprinkle as if with salt
Usage: the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps
Main entry: salt
Definition: add salt to
Main entry: salt
Definition: (of speech) painful or bitter
Usage: salt scorn- Shakespeare; a salt apology