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.
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"
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