What is the meaning of salt?

noun

• 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.
  • synonyms: table salt, common salt
• 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.
  • synonyms: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
• The taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth.
  • synonyms: saltiness, salinity

verb

• Add salt to.
• Sprinkle as if with salt.
  • usage: "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps"
• Add zest or liveliness to.
  • usage: "She salts her lectures with jokes"
• Preserve with salt.
  • usage: "people used to salt meats on ships"

adjective

• Of speech. ( painful or bitter)
  • usage: "salt scorn- Shakespeare; "a salt apology"