Salt

Noun

 * 1) A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
 * 2)  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) A kind of marsh at the shore of a sea (short for salt marsh, apparently not in a wide-spread use).
 * 4)  A sailor (also old salt).
 * 5) * 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
 * I never go as a passenger; nor, though I am something of a salt, do I ever go to sea as a Commodore, or a Captain, or a Cook.
 * 1)  Additional bytes inserted into a plaintext message before encryption, in order to increase randomness and render brute-force decryption more difficult.
 * 2) A person that engages in the political act of seeking employment at a company in order to help unionize it.

Derived terms

 * chicken salt
 * desalt
 * Epsom salt
 * persalt
 * pinch of salt
 * protosalt


 * rock salt
 * rub salt in the wound / rub salt in a wound
 * salt and pepper
 * saltcellar
 * salt lake


 * Salt Lake City
 * salt marsh
 * salt of the earth
 * salt sea
 * saltwater


 * salty
 * sea salt
 * table salt
 * take with a pinch of salt
 * worth one’s salt

Related terms

 * salary

Adjective

 * 1) Salty.
 * 2) Saline.

Verb

 * 1)  To add salt to.
 * 2)  To blast gold into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
 * 3)  To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
 * 4) To include colorful language in.
 * 5) To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
 * 6)  To add bogus evidence to an archeological site.

Antonyms

 * desalt

Derived terms

 * desalt

Adjectives for Salt
insinuating; resultant; solid; valuable; mineral; specific; complex; relaxing; systematic; desolating; insoluble; deliquescent; shrill; atmospheric; iodized; celery.

Thesaurus
AB, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Attic, Atticism, Dylan, Flying Dutchman, Neptune, OD, Poseidon, Tabasco, Varuna, Worcestershire sauce, able seaman, able-bodied seaman, accumulate, adulterate, aftertaste, agile wit, alimentation, alimony, allspice, amass, anchovies, angelica, anhydrate, applesauce, basil, bell pepper, bite, biting, bitter, black humor, black pepper, blast-freeze, bluejacket, borage, brackish, brackishness, bread, brilliant, brine, brininess, briny, buccaneer, burlesque, burnet, caper, capsicum, caraway seeds, cardamom, caricature, catsup, cautiously, celery salt, chervil, chili, chili sauce, chili vinegar, chives, chutney, cinnamon, clever, cloves, comedy, condiments, cook, coriander, corn, cranberry sauce, cubeb, cumin, cure, cured, curry, dahl sauce, deep-sea man, dehydrate, desiccate, dill, dillseed, doctor, doctor accounts, doubtfully, droll, dry, dry wit, dry-cure, dry-salt, duck sauce, embalm, embalming fluid, esprit, evaporate, facetious, fagara, fair-weather sailor, fake, farce, fennel, file, fisherman, five spice powder, flavor, formaldehyde, freeze, freeze-dry, fume, funny, garble accounts, garlic, garlic butter, garlic powder, garlic salt, ginger, green pepper, gust, hearty, hedge garlic, hoard, horseradish, humor, humorous, humorsome, hyssop, irony, irradiate, jack, jack afloat, jack-tar, jacky, jerk, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joky, joshing, juggle, keen, keen-witted, keep, kipper, lampoon, leek, limey, livelihood, liveliness, load, lobsterman, mace, maintenance, manipulate, marinade, marinate, mariner, marjoram, matelot, mayonnaise, mint, mordant, mummify, mustard, navigator, nimble wit, nimble-witted, nutmeg, old campaigner, old hand, old pro, old salt, old sea dog, old-timer, onion, onion salt, oregano, pack, palate, paprika, parody, parsley, pep, pepper, peppercorn, peppermint, piccalilli, pickle, pickled, pile up, pimento, pimpernel, piquancy, pirate, plant, pleasantry, poignancy, pointed, potherb, preservative, preservative medium, preservatize, preserve, pretty wit, privateer, punch, pungency, pungent, quick wit, quick-freeze, quick-witted, radish, rapier-like, ready wit, red pepper, refrigerate, relish, reservedly, retouch, rig, saffron, sage, sailor, salad dressing, saline, salinity, salt away, salted, saltiness, saltish, salty, sapidity, sapor, sarcasm, satire, sauce, sauce-alone, save up, savor, savor of wit, savoriness, savory, sceptically, scintillating, sea dog, sea rover, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, season, seasoned salt, seasoned veteran, seasoning, sesame oil, sesame seeds, shallot, sharp, shellback, shipman, slapstick, slapstick humor, smack, smart, smoke, smoke-cure, sock away, sodium chloride, sophisticate, sour, souse, soused, soy, soy sauce, sparkling, spice, spiciness, sprightly, squib, squirrel away, stack, star anise, stockpile, stomach, store up, stuff, subsistence, subtle wit, support, surcharge, suspiciously, sustenance, sweet, tamper with, tang, tar, tarpaulin, tarragon, tartar sauce, taste, thyme, tomato paste, tongue, tooth, travesty, turmeric, vanilla, vet, veteran, vigor, viking, vinegar, visual humor, vitality, war-horse, warily, water dog, whaler, whimsical, white pepper, windjammer, windsailor, wit, with qualifications, with reservations, witty, zest, zing, zip

Etymology
From sealt:, from  (cf. Dutch zout:, German Salz:, Swedish salt:), from  (cf. Welsh halen:, Latin sal:, Russian соль:, Ancient Greek ἅλς:).

Pronunciation




Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Ainu: ,
 * Arabic: ملح
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܡܠܚܐ (milħā’)
 * Hebrew: מלחא (milħā’)
 * Armenian: աղ
 * Azeri:
 * Bashkir:
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali: নুন
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ဆား
 * Catalan: sal
 * Central Atlas Tamazight: tisent
 * Chamicuro:
 * Cherokee: ᎠᎹ, ᎹᎹ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 鹽, 盐
 * Cantonese: ,
 * Min Nan:
 * Chuvash:
 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dolgan:
 * Dutch:, keukenzout
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Evenki:
 * Ewe: dze
 * Faroese: salt
 * Finnish:
 * Franco-Provençal:
 * French:
 * Gagauz:
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἅλας (alas)
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 塩
 * Kalmyk:
 * Karachay-Balkar:
 * Karakalpak:
 * Kazakh: тұз
 * Khakas:
 * Korean: 소금


 * Kumyk:
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: druska
 * Macedonian:, кујнска сол
 * Malay: garam
 * Manx:
 * Mongolian:
 * Nahuatl:
 * Navajo:
 * Nogai:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Old Frisian: salt
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, sól kuchenna
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: sal, sel
 * Russia Buryat:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: со,  сол
 * Roman: so,  sol
 * Shor:
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: letswai
 * Southern Altai:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: (uppu)
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: ఉప్పు (uppu)
 * Thai: (gleua)
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Tuvan:
 * Ukrainian: сіль
 * Urdu:
 * Uyghur: تۇز
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * West Frisian: sâlt
 * Yakut:
 * Yiddish: זאַלץ
 * Zazaki:


 * Armenian: աղ (aġ)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: salt
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: άλας
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 塩 (えん, en)
 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian:


 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Pashto:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: లవణం (lavanam)
 * Turkish:
 * West Frisian: sâlt


 * Danish:
 * Dutch: zeerot,
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Greek: θαλασσόλυκος
 * Icelandic:
 * Polish: wilk morski
 * Russian: морской волк


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Icelandic: salt


 * Japanese: ソルト
 * Polish:
 * Swahili:


 * : kripë
 * : sout
 * : (milh)
 * : duz
 * : gatz
 * : sol, so
 * : holen, holenoù
 * : ᎠᎹ (āma)
 * : 盐 (yán)
 * : salo
 * : sal
 * : juky
 * : નમક (namak), લૂણો (lu.no)
 * : asin
 * : garam
 * : sal
 * : sale (1,2)
 * : sale (1,2)


 * : sal
 * : ഉപ്പ് (uppu) (1,2), ലവണം (lavaNam) (1)
 * : melħ
 * : लवण (lava.n)
 * : давс
 * : sealt
 * : sal
 * : nun
 * : lon
 * : लवणम् (lava.nam)
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: so
 * : asin
 * : masin
 * : (gleua),  (kem)
 * : îukyra
 * : sal
 * : sal

Adjective

 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, zoutig, gezouten
 * Estonian: soolane
 * Faroese: saltur
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Greek: (alatisménos),  (almirós )
 * Icelandic:, , , , ,
 * Italian:


 * Kurdish: ,
 * Latvian: sāļš, sāļa
 * Macedonian: солен, солена,  солено
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: slan, slana , slano
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Czech: solný
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: soolane, soola-
 * Faroese: saltkendur
 * Finnish: suolainen, suola-
 * French: ,
 * Greek: (alatoúkhos)


 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: солен, солена,  солено
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: salthaltig


 * : salat salada
 * : salzig
 * : asin
 * : salate


 * : sealt
 * : salgado, salgada
 * : sărat, sărată
 * : slaný, slaná , slané
 * : ఉప్పగా (uppagaa), ఉప్పటి (uppaTi)

Verb

 * Catalan: salar
 * Czech: solit, osolit
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: soolata
 * Faroese: salta
 * Finnish: suolata, lisätä suolaa
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 塩漬けにする


 * Latvian: sālīt
 * Macedonian: соли, посоли,  засоли
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:, posolić
 * Portuguese: salgar
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: солить (solít'), посолить (posolít')
 * Scottish Gaelic: saill
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: tuzlamak
 * Zazaki:


 * Swahili:


 * Danish:
 * Dutch:


 * Finnish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * : soliti, posoliti
 * : soliti, posoliti
 * : sealtan, sieltan


 * Cyrillic: солити, посолити
 * Roman: soliti, posoliti
 * Roman: soliti, posoliti

Anagrams

 * last
 * lats
 * slat

Noun

 * 1) jump

Etymology
From saltus:.

Adjective

 * 1) salty, salt

Noun

 * 1) salt

Etymology
From saltr: (adjective), from salt: (noun), from.

Noun

 * 1) salt

Adjective

 * 1) salty

Etymology
From saltr: (adjective), from salt: (noun), from.

Noun

 * 1) salt
 * Geturðu rétt mér saltið?
 * Can you pass me the salt?

Verb

 * 1) freeze

Adjective

 * 1) salty, salt

Noun

 * 1) salt

Derived terms

 * bordsalt
 * havsalt
 * saltlake
 * saltkrystall
 * saltsyre
 * salte

Etymology 1
From saltr:.

Etymology 2
From salt:.

Noun

 * 1) salt

Noun

 * 1) leap
 * 2) saltation

Etymology
From saltus:.

Related terms

 * sălta
 * săltare
 * săltat
 * săltăreț
 * săltător
 * săltătură

Adjective

 * 1) salty

Noun

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

Etymology
From saltr:, from, from.

Synonyms

 * bordssalt

Derived terms

 * bergsalt
 * havssalt
 * medelhavssalt
 * saltlake
 * saltkristall
 * saltstänkt
 * saltsyra

Related terms

 * salta
 * sälta

Adverb

 * 1)  exclusively

Synonyms

 * sadece
 * yalnız
 * yalnızca
 * sade
 * tek
 * bir
 * münhasıran