Definition of salt

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  • salt is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 4
  • salt is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 4
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Definition of salt

  • the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. salinity
    2. saltiness
  • 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 (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. strategic arms limitation talks
  • white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. common salt
    2. table salt
  • a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal) (noun)
  • add salt to (verb)
  • add zest or liveliness to (verb)

    Examples

    1. She salts her lectures with jokes
  • (of speech) painful or bitter (adjective)

    Examples

    1. salt scorn
    2. a salt apology
  • preserve with salt (verb)

    Examples

    1. people used to salt meats on ships
  • sprinkle as if with salt (verb)

    Examples

    1. the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps

See definition of salt in Merriam Webster