salt

Adjective

• (of speech) painful or bitter
  • salt scorn- Shakespeare
    
  • a salt apology
    

Noun

• the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth

• 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

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

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

Verb

• preserve with salt
  • people used to salt meats on ships
    

• add zest or liveliness to
  • She salts her lectures with jokes
    

• sprinkle as if with salt
  • the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps
    

• add salt to

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  saltiness , salinity , Strategic Arms Limitation Talks , SALT , table salt , common salt