salt

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: sŏlt, IPA: /sɒlt/
  • (Conservative RP) enPR: sôlt, IPA: /sɔːlt/
• (US) enPR: sôlt, IPA: /sɔlt/
  • (cot–caught merger) enPR: sält, IPA: /sɑlt/, [sɑɫt], [sɑɫʔ]
• (New Zealand) enPR: sŏlt, IPA: /sɔlt/, [sɔɯ̯t]

Noun

salt (countable and uncountable, plural salts)

1. A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
2. (chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
3. (uncommon) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
4. (slang) A sailor (also old salt).
5. (cryptography) Randomly chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting or hashing it, in order to render brute-force decryption more difficult.
6. A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
7. (obsolete) Flavour; taste; seasoning.
8. (obsolete) Piquancy; wit; sense.
   • Attic salt
9. (obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
10. (historical, in the plural) Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine.
11. (figurative) Skepticism and common sense.
    • Any politician's statements must be taken with a grain of salt, but his need to be taken with a whole shaker of salt.
12. (Internet slang) Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing.
    • There was so much salt in that thread about the poor casting decision.
13. (UK, historical) The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem.
14. One who joins a workplace for the purpose of unionizing it.

Adjective

salt (comparative more salt, superlative most salt)

1. Salty; salted.
   • salt beef;  salt tears
2. Saline.
   • a salt marsh;  salt grass
3. Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
   • a salt mine
   • The salt factory is a key connecting element in the seawater infrastructure.
4. (figurative, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.
5. (figurative, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.
6. (colloquial, archaic) Costly; expensive.

Verb

salt (third-person singular simple present salts, present participle salting, simple past and past participle salted)

1. (transitive) To add salt to.
   • to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter
2. (intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.
   • The brine begins to salt.
3. (nautical, of a ship) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.
4. To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
   1. (mining) To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
   2. (archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archaeological site.
   3. (transitive) To add certain chemical elements to (a nuclear or conventional weapon) so that it generates more radiation.
5. (transitive) To sprinkle throughout.
   • They salted the document with arcane language.
6. (cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
7. To render a thing useless.
   1. (military, transitive) To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.
      • In this place were put to the ground and salted the houses of José Mascarenhas.
   2. (wiki) To lock a page title so it cannot be created.

Noun

salt (plural salts)

1. (obsolete) A bounding; a leaping; a prance.

Anagrams

• Alts, LTAs, TLAs, alts, last, lats, slat

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA: /ˈsalt/
• (Central) IPA: /ˈsal/

Noun

salt m (plural salts)

1. jump
2. waterfall

Noun

salt

1. salt

Noun

salt

1. genitive plural of salto

Pronunciation

• IPA: /salˀd/, [sælˀd̥], [sælˀt]

Adjective

salt

1. salty, salt

Pronunciation

• IPA: /salˀt/, [sæ̝lˀt]

Noun

salt n (singular definite saltet, plural indefinite salte)

1. salt

Verb

salt

1. imperative of salte

Pronunciation

• IPA: [sal̥t]

Noun

salt n (genitive singular salts, plural sølt)

1. salt

Adjective

salt

1. salty

Noun

salt m (plural salts)

1. jump, leap, spring

Romanization

salt

1. Romanization of 𐍃𐌰𐌻𐍄

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sal̥t/

Noun

salt n (genitive singular salts, nominative plural sölt)

1. salt
   • Geturðu rétt mér saltið?
     • Can you pass me the salt?

Adjective

salt

1. positive degree neuter singular nominative/accusative of saltur

Verb

salt (intr., 1st conj., pres. salstu, salsti, salst, past salu)

1. to freeze

Alternative forms

• selt, sealt, salte, zalt, saulte, sawt, scealte

Pronunciation

• IPA: /salt/, /sɛlt/

Noun

salt (uncountable)

1. salt (sodium chloride)
2. Something containing or for storing salt
3. Any of a group of crystalline compounds that resemble salt

Adjective

salt (plural and weak singular salte, comparative salter, superlative saltest)

1. salty, tasting of salt
2. salted, coated in salt

Adjective

salt (neuter singular salt, definite singular and plural salte, comparative saltere, indefinite superlative saltest, definite superlative salteste)

1. salty, salt, salted
   • salte peanøtter - salted peanuts

Noun

salt n (definite singular saltet, indefinite plural salter, definite plural salta or saltene)

1. salt

Verb

salt

1. imperative of salte

Derived terms

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sɑlt/

Adjective

salt (neuter singular salt, definite singular and plural salte, comparative saltare, indefinite superlative saltast, definite superlative saltaste)

1. salty, salt, salted

Noun

salt n (definite singular saltet, indefinite plural salt, definite plural salta)

1. salt

Derived terms

Noun

salt n

1. salt

Adjective

salt

1. salty, salt

Noun

salt n

1. salt

Adjective

salt

1. salty, salted

Noun

salt n

1. salt

Adjective

salt

1. strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of saltr (“salty”)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsalt/

Noun

salt n (plural salturi)

1. leap
2. saltation

Verb

salt

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of sălta

Pronunciation

• IPA: /salt/

Adjective

salt (comparative saltare, superlative saltast)

1. salty

Noun

salt n

1. salt
   1. (uncountable) sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
   2. (chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.

Anagrams

• last, lats, stal, tals

Pronunciation

• IPA: /saɫt/

Adverb

salt

1. exclusively, only, just, absolute
   • salt çoğunluk

     • absolute majority