Japanese Meaning of salt

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Definitions and Meaning of salt in English

Wordnet

salt (n)

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

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

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

the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth

Wordnet

salt (v)

add salt to

sprinkle as if with salt

add zest or liveliness to

preserve with salt

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salt (s)

(of speech) painful or bitter

Webster

salt ()

Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral waters at Epsom, England, -- whence the name; afterwards prepared from sea water; but now from certain minerals, as from siliceous hydrate of magnesia.

Webster

salt (n.)

The chloride of sodium, a substance used for seasoning food, for the preservation of meat, etc. It is found native in the earth, and is also produced, by evaporation and crystallization, from sea water and other water impregnated with saline particles.

Hence, flavor; taste; savor; smack; seasoning.

Hence, also, piquancy; wit; sense; as, Attic salt.

A dish for salt at table; a saltcellar.

A sailor; -- usually qualified by old.

The neutral compound formed by the union of an acid and a base; thus, sulphuric acid and iron form the salt sulphate of iron or green vitriol.

Fig.: That which preserves from corruption or error; that which purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction; as, his statements must be taken with a grain of salt.

Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt.

Marshes flooded by the tide.

Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; salt water.

Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass.

Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent.

Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful.

The act of leaping or jumping; a leap.

Webster

salt (v. t.)

To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt cattle.

To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.

Webster

salt (v. i.)

To deposit salt as a saline solution; as, the brine begins to salt.

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salsuginous => 塩辛い, salsola soda => ハマニガナ, salsola kali tenuifolia => ソルトウォート, salsola kali => イボクサ, salsola => サルソラ,