Meaning of 'salt'

adjective

(of speech) painful or bitter

Example: "salt scorn- Shakespeare"

noun

the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth

Synonyms: saltiness salinity

noun

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

Synonyms: table salt

noun

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

verb

preserve with salt

Example: "people used to salt meats on ships"

Synonyms: corn

verb

add zest or liveliness to

Example: "I salt my lectures with jokes."

verb

sprinkle as if with salt

Example: "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps"

verb

add salt to

Synonyms: salinate