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salt

adjective
- containing or filled with salt; "salt water"
Antonyms: fresh Similar: brackish, briny, saliferous, saline, salty, saltish - of speech that is painful or bitter; "salt scorn"- Shakespeare; "a salt apology"
Similar: sharp - one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water
Synonyms: salty Similar: tasteful
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
Synonyms: common salt, table 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
Synonyms: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
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"
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