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How to pronounce salt
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What does salt mean?
nounA 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.
adjOf 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.
verbTo 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.
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