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Salt
English
Pronunciation
Noun
salt (uncountable and countable; plural: salts )
- An ionic compound composed of an alkalai metal atom and a halogen atom.
- A compound formed from the reaction of an acid with a base
- General term for sodium chloride (NaCl ) (also common salt).
- A marsh (also salt-marsh )
- (slang) A sailor (also old salt).
- (cryptography): additional bytes inserted into a term to increase randomness and obscure algorythm either before or after a step of encryption.
Derived words
- Desalt (verb).
- sea salt
- saltwater
- salt lake
- salt-marsh
Translations
- Breton: holen m -où pl
- Catalan: sal f
- Cherokee: ᎠᎹ (āma)
- Chinese Characters: 鹽 / 塩 / 盐; 鹺, 鹾
- Chinese: 盐
- Dutch: zout n (1,2,3), keukenzout n (1), zeezout n (1), rot m (5), oude rot m (5)
- Ekspreso: sal
- Esperanto: salo
- Finnish: suola
- French: sel m (1), sel de table (3), sel marin (3)
- Frisian: sâlt
- Galician: sal
- German: Salz n (1,2,3), Kochsalz n (3)
- Guarani: juky
- Indonesian: garam
- Interlingua: sal
- Hebrew: מלח (melach)
- Hungarian: só
- Italian: sale m
- Japanese: 塩 (しお, shio)
- Latin: sal
- Old English: sealt n
- Polish: sól f
- Portuguese: sal m
- Romanian: sare f
- Russian: соль (sol')
- Slovak: soľ f (1, 2, 3)
- Slovene: sol f (1,2,3)
- Spanish: sal f
- Swedish: salt
- Tupinambá: îukyra
- Turkish: tuz
- Volapük: sal
Related phrases
- salt of the earth (a person of great worthiness)
- take with a pinch of salt (regard as exaggerated)
- worth one's salt (capable)
Further Reading
- Wikipedia article on Sodium chloride
- Wikipedia article on Salt
Adjective
salt
- Salty
- Jack complained about the meal being too salty.
- Saline
Translations
- Dutch: zout, zoute , gezouten
- Finnish: suolainen
- French: salé m, salée f
- German: salzig
- Indonesian: asin
- Interlingua: salate
- Old English: sealt
- Polish: słony m, słona f, słone n
- Portuguese: salgado m, salgada f
- Romanian: sărat m, sărată f
- Slovak: slaný m, slaná f, slané n
- Swedish: salt
Verb
to salt (salts , salted , salting )
- add salt
- Salting a mine. Practice of blasting gold into a portion of a mine, to give the appearence of it being a productive seam.
- (cryptography): Practice of adding filler bytes before encryption (essentially, a technique to make brute force decryption much harder.) salting an algorythm.
- include colorful language
Derived words
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