Salt - Definition

adj 1: (of speech) painful or bitter; "salt scorn"- Shakespeare;
"a salt apology"
n 1: a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a
metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
2: white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to
season and preserve food [syn: salt, table salt, common
salt]
3: 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
[syn: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, SALT]
4: the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
[syn: salt, saltiness, salinity]
v 1: add salt to
2: sprinkle as if with salt; "the rebels had salted the fields
with mines and traps"
3: add zest or liveliness to; "She salts her lectures with
jokes"
4: preserve with salt; "people used to salt meats on ships"