Definitions for SALT

Definitions for (noun) SALT

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)


Definitions for (verb) SALT

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


Definitions for (adj) SALT

Main entry: salt

Definition: (of speech) painful or bitter

Usage: salt scorn- Shakespeare; a salt apology


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