salt

Meaning of salt

noun
  1. A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
  2. One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
  3. A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
  4. A sailor (also old salt).
  5. Randomly chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting or hashing it, in order to render brute-force decryption more difficult.
  6. A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
  7. Flavour; taste; seasoning.
  8. Piquancy; wit; sense.
    Attic salt
  9. A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
  10. Skepticism and common sense.
  11. Indignation; outrage; arguing.
verb
  1. To add salt to.
    to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter
  2. To deposit salt as a saline solution.
    The brine begins to salt.
  3. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
  4. To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
  5. To include colorful language in.
  6. To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
adjective
  1. Salty; salted.
    salt beef;  salt tears
  2. Saline.
    a salt marsh;  salt grass
  3. Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
    The salt factory is a key connecting element in the seawater infrastructure.
  4. Bitter; sharp; pungent.
  5. Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.
  6. Costly; expensive.

Information about salt

Hyphenation of salt

salt

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • salt is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

salt synonyms

Meaning salty:

salty

Meaning saltiness:

saltiness, salinity

salt antonyms

Meaning :

desalt

Translation of salt

Anagrams of salt

alts, last, lats, slat

Words that rhyme with salt

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