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salting
salt S0046500 (sôlt)n.1. A usually whitish crystalline solid, chiefly sodium chloride, used extensively in ground or granulated form as a food seasoning and preservative. Also called common salt, table salt.2. An ionic chemical compound formed by replacing all or part of the hydrogen ions of an acid with metal ions or other cations.3. salts Any of various mineral salts used as laxatives or cathartics.4. salts Smelling salts.5. often salts Epsom salts.6. An element that gives flavor or zest.7. Sharp lively wit.8. Informal A sailor, especially when old or experienced.9. A saltcellar.adj.1. Containing or filled with salt: a salt spray; salt tears.2. Having a salty taste or smell: breathed the salt air.3. Preserved in salt or a salt solution: salt mackerel.4. a. Flooded with seawater.b. Found in or near such a flooded area: salt grasses.tr.v. salt·ed, salt·ing, salts 1. To add, treat, season, or sprinkle with salt.2. To cure or preserve by treating with salt or a salt solution.3. To provide salt for (deer or cattle).4. To add zest or liveliness to: salt a lecture with anecdotes.5. To give an appearance of value to by fraudulent means, especially to place valuable minerals in (a mine) for the purpose of deceiving.Phrasal Verbs: salt away To put aside; save. salt out To separate (a dissolved substance) by adding salt to the solution.Idioms: salt of the earth1. A person or group considered as embodying simplicity and moral integrity.2. Archaic A person or group considered the best or most worthy part of society. worth (one's) salt Efficient and capable.
[Middle English, from Old English sealt; see sal- in Indo-European roots.]
SALT S0046500 (sôlt)abbr. Strategic Arms Limitation Talkssalting (ˈsɔːltɪŋ) n (Physical Geography) (often plural) an area of low ground regularly inundated with salt water; often taken to include its halophyte vegetation; a salt marshThesaurus| Noun | 1. |  salting - the act of adding salt to food seasoning - the act of adding a seasoning to food |
TranslationsIdiomsSeesaltSalting
Salting in the fur industry, the treatment of semifinished pelts in an aqueous solution of common salt in order to restore hygro-scopicity, plasticity, and softness, properties partially lost during such previous processes as pickling, bleaching, and dyeing. FinancialSeeUnion Saltingsalting
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