ENGLISH: salt - CREOLE: sèl



Overview of noun salt



The noun salt has 4 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)



1. (26) salt -- (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))

2. (5) salt, table salt, common salt -- (white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food)

3. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, 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)

4. salt, saltiness, salinity -- (the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth)



Overview of verb salt



The verb salt has 4 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)



1. (1) salt -- (add salt to)

2. salt -- (sprinkle as if with salt; "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps")

3. salt -- (add zest or liveliness to; "She salts her lectures with jokes")

4. salt -- (preserve with salt; "people used to salt meats on ships")



Overview of adj salt



The adj salt has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)



1. (1) salt -- ((of speech) painful or bitter; "salt scorn"- Shakespeare; "a salt apology")

2. salty, salt -- (one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water)

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