Definitions For Salt

noun

• The taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
• 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
• White crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
• A compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
• A natural white substance that is used especially to flavor or preserve food
• A chemical compound formed when part of an acid is replaced by a metal or something like a metal

verb

• Preserve with salt
• Add zest or liveliness to
• Sprinkle as if with salt
• Add salt to
• To flavor or preserve (food) with salt
• To put salt on (a surface) especially in order to melt ice

adjective

• (of speech) painful or bitter