Definition of salt
- a people … full of life, vigor, and the salt of personality
- —Clifton Fadiman
- a tale worthy of an old salt
The soup needs a little more salt.
Season the meat with salt and pepper.
The meat was preserved by being salted and smoked.
The city salted the roads after the snowstorm.
before 12th century
interlace, intersperse, interweave, lace, thread, weave, wreathe;
insert, intermingle, mingle, mix;
amalgamate, assimilate, blend, combine, commingle, embody, fuse, incorporate, integrate, merge;
before 12th century
: 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
: to flavor or preserve (food) with salt
: to put salt on (a surface) especially in order to melt ice
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