Salt

  • 61salt — I UK [sɔːlt] / US [sɔlt] noun Word forms salt : singular salt plural salts ** 1) [uncountable] a white substance that is often added to food before or after cooking to improve its flavour. Salt is dug from the ground, or produced from sea water… …

    English dictionary

  • 62Salt — In medicine, salt usually refers to sodium chloride, table salt, used for seasoning food, for the preservation of meat, etc. Salt is found in the earth and in sea water and is isolated by evaporation and crystallization from sea water and other… …

    Medical dictionary

  • 63Salt —    Used to season food (Job 6:6), and mixed with the fodder of cattle (Isa. 30:24, clean; in marg. of R.V. salted ). All meat offerings were seasoned with salt (Lev. 2:13). To eat salt with one is to partake of his hospitality, to derive… …

    Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • 64salt — n. 1) to pour salt 2) common, table; fine; garlic; mineral; onion salt 3) a dash, pinch; grain of salt 4) a spoonful of salt 5) (misc.) to take smt. with a grain of salt ( to regard smt. with skepticism ); the salt of the earth ( the very best )… …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 65salt —    The belief that spilling salt brings bad luck (especially, a quarrel between friends) was first noted in the 16th century, and is widely known today; to avert the evil, one should take a pinch of the spilt salt with the *right hand and throw… …

    A Dictionary of English folklore

  • 66salt —   Pa akai.    ♦ To salt, kāpī, kōpī, ho omiko, kāmala.    ♦ Ocherous earth used to color and flavor salt, alaea.    ♦ Salt thus treated, pa akai ula ula.    ♦ Salt bed, ālialia, ālia, hāhāpa akai.    ♦ Salt flat, papa pa akai (fig., sour… …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • 67salt — sɔːlt n. sodium chloride, common crystalline mineral, table salt; element that provides zest or liveliness; experienced sailor; element that makes an expression poignant or caustic v. add salt, season with salt; preserve in salt; scatter salt;… …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 68salt — Synonyms and related words: 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,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 69salt — sf. 1) İçinde yabancı bir öge bulunmayan, mutlak Salt sevinç. 2) fel. İçine, kendisine yabancı hiçbir şey karışmamış, arı 3) zf. Yalnızca Sanat adına konuşmakta kendinde hak gören, her konuştuğunu da salt doğrudur diye karşısındakine… …

    Çağatay Osmanlı Sözlük

  • 70salt — n 1. sodium chloride, table salt, sea salt, rock salt. 2. salts Epsom salts, potassium salts, Chem., Pharm. Rochelle salt; purgative, cathartic, laxative. 3. wit, Attic wit, Attic salt, sarcasm, dry humor; spice, spiciness, pepper, piquancy,… …

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