salt
a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,825 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,871 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
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 also: 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 also: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
- the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth also: saltiness, salinity
verb
- add salt to
- sprinkle as if with salt the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps
- add zest or liveliness to She salts her lectures with jokes
- preserve with salt people used to salt meats on ships
salt in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Hot biscuits! with butter! and rock salt.
The Cavalier · George Washington Cable · Chapter 1
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The salt air seemed to bring fresh life to me--fresh life and fresh ideas.
The Reflections of Ambrosine: A Novel · Elinor Glyn · Chapter 2
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I got the milk by witchcraft yesterday out of four kingdoms, and now it is salt!’
The Yellow Fairy Book: The Grateful Beasts · World Traditions (Celtic, Norse, Asian & Persian) · Chapter 2
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As they could not subsist at sea without salt provisions, they resolved to form an establishment upon land.
The pirates own book · Charles Ellms · Chapter 1
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There was a faint suggestion of far-away sandy beaches, the breaking of waves, and the rush of salt winds.
Jane Field: A Novel · Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman · Chapter 1