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)