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Sounds | sao'lt |
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Rhymes | asphalt, assault / Assault, basalt, and 10 more rhymes in aolt at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Containing or filled with salt. |
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Examples | "salt water" |
Similar | brackish, briny; saliferous; saline, salty; saltish |
See also | tasteful |
Contrary | fresh |
Meaning | Of speech that is painful or bitter. |
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Examples | "salt scorn"- Shakespeare; "a salt apology" |
Similar to | sharp |
Meaning | One of the four basic taste sensations. Like the taste of sea water. |
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Synonyms | salty |
Similar to | tasteful |
Meaning | A compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal). |
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Narrower | acetate, ethanoate; arsenate; chlorate; dibasic salt; hypochlorite; pyrophosphate; sulfonate; perchlorate; alkali; ammonium chloride, sal ammoniac; benzoate; borate; borosilicate; calcium lactate; calcium stearate, calcium octadecanoate; carbamate; carbonate; fulminate; chromate; cyanide; potassium bromide; potassium chlorate; potassium dichromate; ferricyanide; ferrocyanide; fluoroboride; fluosilicate; glutamate; halide; isocyanate; calcium chloride; calcium sulphate, calcium sulfate; manganate; chrome alum; tartrate; oxalacetate, oxaloacetate; oxalate; permanganate; phosphate, orthophosphate, inorganic phosphate; polyphosphate; propenoate, acrylate; salicylate; double salt; bile salt; Glauber's salt, Glauber's salts; cream of tartar, tartar, potassium hydrogen tartrate; sodium chlorate; bichromate, dichromate; sodium dichromate, sodium bichromate; microcosmic salt; silicate; sodium carbonate, washing soda, sal soda, soda ash, soda; sodium carboxymethyl cellulose; sodium fluoride; sulfate, sulphate; thiocyanate; tungstate; urate; vanadate; xanthate |
Broader | compound, chemical compound |
Meaning | White crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food. |
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Synonyms | table salt, common salt |
Broader | flavorer, flavourer, flavoring, flavouring, seasoner, seasoning |
Verbs | salt; salt |
Meaning | 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. |
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Synonyms | Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
Broader | diplomacy, diplomatic negotiations |
Meaning | The taste experience when salt is taken into the mouth. |
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Synonyms | saltiness, salinity |
Broader | taste, taste sensation, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory perception |
Verbs | salt; salt |
Meaning | Add salt to. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Category | cooking, cookery, preparation |
Broader | season, flavor, flavour |
Nouns | salt; salter; salt; salting |
Meaning | Sprinkle as if with salt. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody PP; Somebody ----s something PP; Somebody ----s something with something |
Examples | "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps" |
Broader | sprinkle, splash, splosh |
Meaning | Add zest or liveliness to. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "She salts her lectures with jokes" |
Broader | spice, spice up |
Meaning | Preserve with salt. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Model | The chefs salt the vegetables |
Examples | "people used to salt meats on ships" |
Category | cooking, cookery, preparation |
Broader | preserve, keep |
Nouns | salt; salter; salt |