Meaning of salt In English

• 0 a common white substance found in sea water and in the ground, used especially to add flavour to food or to preserve it:

  • salt and pepper

  • Can you pass the salt, please?

  • Add a pinch of (= small amount of) salt to the sauce.

• 1 a chemical substance that is a combination of a metal or a base with an acid:

  • Potassium nitrate and potassium chloride are potassium salts.

• 2 containing or preserved in salt:

  • salt water

  • salt cod/pork

• 3 to add salt to or put salt on something:

  • Don't forget to salt the potatoes.

  • When it's icy, the city salts the roads to thaw the ice.

• 4 abbreviation for speech and language therapy

• 5 abbreviation for Strategic Arms Limitation Talks: a series of discussions between the US and the USSR that took place from 1969 to 1979 and aimed to limit the number of nuclear weapons

• 6 a common, white substance, found in sea water and in the ground, used to add flavor to food or to preserve it:

  • a grain of salt

  • Please pass the salt and pepper.

  • Add a pinch of salt (= small amount of it).

• 7 a chemical substance made with an acid

• 8 to add salt to food:

  • She salted and peppered her stew.

• 9 to put salt on roads and sidewalks in the winter:

  • Work crews were busy plowing and salting roads.

• 10 containing or tasting of salt, or preserved with salt:

  • a salt pond/lake

  • salt pork/cod