salt

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

salts

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative

more salt

Superlative

most salt

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a food ingredient, seasoning, condiment, and preservative.

   • Common salt, chloride of sodium, appears to be essential to the life of the higher animals.
   • Nando was pierced with grief, but he didn't allow himself to cry. Tears, he knew, would cost his body salt. Without salt, you die.

2. 2.One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.

   • Tom put salt in his coffee instead of sugar.

3. 3.A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.

   • Tom put salt in his coffee instead of sugar.

4. 4.A sailor (also old salt).(slang)

   • Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts.
   • I never go as a passenger; nor, though I am something of a salt, do I ever go to sea as a Commodore, or a Captain, or a Cook.

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.Of land, fields etc.: flooded by the sea.

2. 2.Of plants: growing in the sea or on land flooded by the sea.

3. 3.Of water: containing salt, saline.

   • After a few days of north-west wind, the waters of the Gordon will be found salt for twelve miles up from the bar.

4. 4.Treated with salt as a preservative; cured with salt, salted.

   • Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm.

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