salt
A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a food ingredient, seasoning, condiment, and preservative.
Noun 4 meanings
A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a food ingredient, seasoning, condiment, and preservative.
“Near-synonyms: table salt, rock salt, road salt”
One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
A sequence of random data added to plain text data (such as passwords or messages) prior to encryption or hashing, in order to make brute force decryption more difficult.
Adjective 4 meanings
Of water: containing salt, saline.
“Why the Sea is Salt”
Treated with salt as a preservative; cured with salt, salted.
Of land, fields etc.: flooded by the sea.
Of plants: growing in the sea or on land flooded by the sea.
Verb 4 meanings
To add salt to.
“to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter”
To deposit salt as a saline solution.
“The brine begins to salt.”
To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.
To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
Etymology
PIE word *sḗh₂l From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-West Germanic *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l (“salt”). Doublet of sal, salary, and salsa, all ultimately from Latin sāl (“salt”), which it superseded as the general term for "salt".
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SALT at a glance
SALT has 4 letters and scores 4 points in Scrabble (S 1 + A 1 + L 1 + T 1) and 5 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,443 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with salt
All rhymes- DEALT6
- HALT7
- ASPHALT12
- MALT6
- COBALT10
- SHALT8
- BASALT8
- GESTALT8
- EXALT12
- DALT5
- OVERSALT11
- STRINGHALT14
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