salt

/sɔlt/ nounverbadjective
4 letters1 syllable4 points in Scrabble®5 points in WWF®
DEFINITIONS9
NOUN
1

The taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth.

2

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.

3

White crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food.

4

A compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal).

VERB
1

Add salt to.

2

Add zest or liveliness to.

“She salts her lectures with jokes”

3

Preserve with salt.

“people used to salt meats on ships”

4

Sprinkle as if with salt.

“the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps”

ADJECTIVE
1

(of speech) painful or bitter.

“salt scorn”

“a salt apology”

WORD FORMS
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