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Adjective salt has 3 senses
  1. salt - containing or filled with salt; "salt water"
    Antonyms:     fresh, freshwater, sweet, unsalty
  2. salt - of speech that is painful or bitter; "salt scorn"- Shakespeare; "a salt apology"
    Antonym:     dull (indirect, via sharp)
  3. salty, salt - one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water
    Antonym: tasteless (indirect, via tasteful)
,Noun salt has 4 senses
  1. salt - a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
    --1 is a kind of     compound, chemical compound
    --1 has particulars:
     acetate, ethanoate; arsenate; chlorate; dibasic salt; hypochlorite; pyrophosphate; sulfonate; perchlorate; alkali; ammonium chloride, sal ammoniac; benzoate; borate; borosilicate; calcium lactate; calcium stearate, calcium octadecanoate; carbamate; carbonate; fulminate; chromate; cyanide; potassium bromide; potassium chlorate; potassium dichromate; ferricyanide; ferrocyanide; fluoroboride; fluosilicate; glutamate; halide; isocyanate; calcium chloride; calcium sulphate, calcium sulfate; manganate; chrome alum; tartrate; oxalacetate, oxaloacetate; oxalate; permanganate; phosphate, orthophosphate, inorganic phosphate; polyphosphate; propenoate, acrylate; salicylate; double salt; bile salt; Glauber's salt, Glauber's salts; cream of tartar, tartar, potassium hydrogen tartrate; sodium chlorate; bichromate, dichromate; sodium dichromate, sodium bichromate; microcosmic salt; silicate; sodium carbonate, washing soda, sal soda, soda ash, soda; sodium carboxymethyl cellulose; sodium fluoride; sulfate, sulphate; thiocyanate; tungstate; urate; vanadate; xanthate
  2. salt, table salt, common salt - white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
    --2 is a kind of flavorer, flavourer, flavoring, flavouring, seasoner, seasoning
    Derived forms: verb salt4, verb salt1
  3. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, SALT - 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 is a kind of diplomacy, diplomatic negotiations
  4. salt, saltiness, salinity - the taste experience when salt is taken into the mouth
    --4 is a kind of taste, taste sensation, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory perception
    Derived forms: verb salt4, verb salt1
,Verb salt has 4 senses
  1. salt - add salt to
    --1 is one way to     season, flavor, flavour
    Derived forms: noun salt4, noun salt2, noun salter1, noun salting1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  2. salt - sprinkle as if with salt; "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps"
    --2 is one way to     sprinkle, splash, splosh
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody PP
    Somebody ----s something PP
    Somebody ----s something with something
  3. salt - add zest or liveliness to; "She salts her lectures with jokes"
    --3 is one way to     spice, spice up
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  4. salt - preserve with salt; "people used to salt meats on ships"
    --4 is one way to     preserve, keep
    Derived forms: noun salt4, noun salt2, noun salter1
    Sample sentence:
    The chefs salt the vegetables
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