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Definition: Salt |
SaltAdjective1. Containing or filled with salt; "salt water". 2. (rare; of speech) painful; bitter; "salt scorn"- Shakespeare; "a salt apology". 3. One of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water. 4. (used especially of meats) preserved in salt. Noun1. A compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal). 2. White crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food. 3. Negotiations between the US and the USSR opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons. 4. The taste experience when salt is taken into the mouth. Verb1. Add salt to. 2. Preserve with salt, as of meats. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "salt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Computing | Salt n. A tiny bit of near-random data inserted where too much regularity would be undesirable; a data frob (sense 1). For example, the Unix crypt(3) man page mentions that "the salt string is used to perturb the DES algorithm in one of 4096 different ways.". Source: Jargon File. |
Bible | Salt used to season food (Job 6:6), and mixed with the fodder of cattle (Isa. 30:24, "clean;" in marg. of R.V. "salted"). All meat-offerings were seasoned with salt (Lev. 2:13). To eat salt with one is to partake of his hospitality, to derive subsistence from him; and hence he who did so was bound to look after his host's interests (Ezra 4:14, "We have maintenance from the king's palace;" A.V. marg., "We are salted with the salt of the palace;" R.V., "We eat the salt of the palace"). A "covenant of salt" (Num. 18:19; 2 Chr. 13:5) was a covenant of perpetual obligation. New-born children were rubbed with salt (Ezek. 16:4). Disciples are likened unto salt, with reference to its cleansing and preserving uses (Matt. 5:13). When Abimelech took the city of Shechem, he sowed the place with salt, that it might always remain a barren soil (Judg. 9:45). Sir Lyon Playfair argues, on scientific grounds, that under the generic name of "salt," in certain passages, we are to understand petroleum or its residue asphalt. Thus in Gen. 19:26 he would read "pillar of asphalt;" and in Matt. 5:13, instead of "salt," "petroleum," which loses its essence by exposure, as salt does not, and becomes asphalt, with which pavements were made. The Jebel Usdum, to the south of the Dead Sea, is a mountain of rock salt about 7 miles long and from 2 to 3 miles wide and some hundreds of feet high. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | Salt is an omen of discordant surroundings when seen in dreams. You will usually find after dreaming of salt that everything goes awry, and quarrels and dissatisfaction show themselves in the family circle. To salt meat, portends that debts and mortgages will harass you. For a young woman to eat salt, she will be deserted by her lover for a more beautiful and attractive girl, thus causing her deep chagrin. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Industry | Inclusion caused by molten material which was not incorporated into the glass and recrystallized on cooling of the glass(usually sodium sulphate). Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Salt Flavour, smack. The salt of youth is that vigour and strong passion which then predominates. Shakespeare uses the term on several occasions for strong amorous passion. Thus Iago refers to it as "hot as monkeys, salt as wolves in pride" (Othello, iii. 3). The Duke calls Angelo's base passion his "salt imagination," because he supposed his victim to be Isabella, and not his betrothed wife whom the Duke forced him to marry. (Measure for Measure, v. 1.) "Though we are justices, and doctors, and churchmen, Master Page, we have some salt of our youth in us."- Merry Wives of Windsor, ii. 3. Spilling salt was held to be an unlucky omen by the Romans, and the superstition has descended to ourselves. In Leonardo da Vinci's famous picture of the Lord's Supper, Judas Iscariot is known by the salt-cellar knocked over accidentally by his arm. Salt was used in sacrifice by the Jews, as well as by the Greeks and Romans; and it is still used in baptism by the Roman Catholic clergy. It was an emblem of purity and the sanctifying influence of a holy life on others. Hence our Lord tells His disciples they are "the salt of the earth." Spilling the salt after it was placed on the head of the victim was a bad omen, hence the superstition. A covenant of salt (Numbers xviii. 19). A covenant which could not be broken. As salt was a symbol of incorruption, it, of course, symbolised perpetuity. "The Lord God of Israel gave the kingdom ... to David ... by a covenant of salt."- 2 Chronicles xiii. 5. Cum grano salis. With great limitation; with its grain of salt, or truth. As salt is sparingly used in condiments, so is truth in the remark just made. He won't earn salt for his porridge. He will never earn a penny. Not worth one's salt. Not worth the expense of the food he eats. To eat a man's salt. To partake of his hospitality. Among the Arabs to eat a man's salt was a sacred bond between the host and guest. No one who has eaten of another's salt should speak ill of him or do him an ill turn. "One does not eat a man's salt ... at these dinners. There is nothing sacred in ... London hospitality."- Thackeray. To sit above the salt- in a place of distinction. Formerly the family saler (salt cellar) was of massive silver, and placed in the middle of the table. Persons of distinction sat above the "saler"- i.e. between it and the head of the table; dependents and inferior guests sat below. "We took him up above the salt and made much of him."- Kingsley: Westward Ho / chap. xv. True to his salt. Faithful to his employers. Here salt means salary or interests. (See above, To eat a man's salt. "M. Waddington owes his fortune and his consideration to his father's adopted country [France], and he is true to his salt."- Newspaper paragraph, March 6, 1893. Salt A sailor, especially an old sailor; e.g. an old salt. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. A general term for naturally occurring sodium chloride, NaCl. See also:halite; common salt; rock salt b. To introduce extra amounts of a valuable mineral into a sample to be assayed or into the working places of a mine, with fraudulent intent. c. The generic term salt is applied to any one of a class of similar compounds formed when the acid hydrogen of an acid is partly or whollyreplaced by a metal or a metallic radical. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | SALT. Lecherous. A salt bitch: a bitch at heat, or proud bitch. Salt eel; a rope's end, used to correct boys, &c. at sea: you shall have a salt eel for supper. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In chemistry, a salt is a chemical compound composed of cations (positively charged ions) bound to anions (negatively charged ions). They are typically the product of a chemical reaction between a base and an acid, the base contributing the cation and the acid contributing the anion.
A familiar example is table salt, in common usage simply called salt. It is the specific salt sodium chloride, and is described thoroughly in that article. Its formula is NaCl and it is the product of the base sodium hydroxide, NaOH and hydrochloric acid, HCl. Table salt is derived by purification from sea salt, or by mining directly from pockets of salt trapped in impervious rock (see Salt mine).
In general, salts are ionic compounds which form crystals. They are usually soluble in water, where the two ions separate. Salts typically have a high melting point, low hardness, and low compressibility. If molten or dissolved in water, they conduct electricity.
Salts are named according to their constituent ions. The cationic components, often metal ions or ammonium, are given first, followed by the anionic components. Cations are often named according to the their conjugate acid:
- acetates are the salts of acetic acid
- carbonates are the salts of carbonic acid
- chlorides are the salts of hydrochloric acid
- cyanates are the salts of cyanic acid
- nitrates are the salts of nitric acid
- nitrites are the salts of nitrous acid
- phosphates are the salts of phosphoric acid
- sulfates are the salts of sulfuric acid
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Salt."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Sodium chloride, also known as common salt, table salt, or halite, is a chemical compound with formula NaCl. Sodium chloride is the salt most responsible for the salinity of the ocean and of the extracellular fluid of many multicellular organisms. It is commonly used as a flavour enhancer and preservative for food and to de-ice roads.
Properties
General
Name Sodium chloride Chemical formula NaCl Appearance White or clear solid Physical
Formula weight 58.4 amu Melting point 1074 K (801 °C) Boiling point 1738 K (1465 °C) Density 2.2 ×103 kg/m3 Crystal structure f.c.c. Solubility 35.9 g in 100g water Thermochemistry
ΔfH0gas -181.42 kJ/mol ΔfH0liquid -385.92 kJ/mol ΔfH0solid -411.12 kJ/mol S0gas, 1 bar 229.79 J/mol·K S0liquid, 1 bar 95.06 J/mol·K S0solid 72.11 J/mol·K Safety
Ingestion Dangerous in large quantities Inhalation May cause irritation Skin May cause irritation Eyes May cause irritation More info Hazardous Chemical Database SI units were used where possible. Unless otherwise stated, standard conditions were used. Disclaimer and references
Sodium chloride is essential for life. Humans are unusual among primates in secreting large amounts of salt by sweating.
0.9% sodium chloride in water is called a physiological solution because it is isoosmotic with blood plasma. It is known medically as normal saline. This saline solution can be prepared by dissolving 0.85 gram of sodium chloride in 100 ml of distilled water. Physiological solution is the mainstay of fluid replacement therapy that is widely used in medicine in prevention or treatment of dehydration.
Salt is produced by evaporation of seawater or brine from other sources, such as brine wells and salt lakes, and by mining rock salt.
Many microorganisms cannot live in an overly salty environment: water is drawn out of their cells by osmosis. For this reason salt is used to preserve some foods, such as smoked bacon or fish. It has also been used to disinfect wounds.
Because of its importance for life, control over salt has often been used for social and political ends. In the Roman Empire, salt was sometimes used as a form of currency. The English word "salary" derives from the Latin word for "salt". The empire of Mali, in Africa, valued salt enough to buy it for its weight in gold; this trade led to the legends of the incredibly wealthy city of Timbuktu, and fueled inflation in Europe, which was exporting the salt.
In later times, for instance during the British colonial period, salt production and transport was controlled in India as a means of generating enormous tax revenues.
Long a scarce commodity, industrialised production has made salt plentiful. About 51% of world output is now used by northern countries to de-ice roads in winter. This works because salt water has a lower freezing point than pure water: the ions prevent regular ice crystals from forming.
Salt is commonly used as a flavour enhancer for food and has been identified as one of the basic tastes. Ironically, given its history, this has resulted in large sections of the developed world ingesting salt massively in excess of the required intake, particularly in colder climates where the required intake is much lower. This causes elevated levels of blood pressure in some, which in turn is associated with increased risks of heart attack and stroke.
Salty soil is generally unfit for agriculture, hence the practice of salting the earth in ancient times.
The CAS number of sodium chloride is 7647-14-5.
See also : soap
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sodium chloride."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SALT | English | Society for Applied Learning Technology | Computing |
SALT | Finnish | Strategisten aseiden rajoittamissopimus | Public Administration |
SALT | German | Vertrag über die Begrenzung strategischer Waffen | Law, Politics & International Affaires |
| SA | English | Salt Added | N/A |
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Synonyms: SaltSynonyms: salt(a) (adj), salt-cured (adj), salted (adj), salty (adj), common salt (n), salinity (n), saltiness (n), table salt (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: fresh (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Importance | Great thing, great point; main chance, "the be all and the end all "; cardinal point; substance, gist; (essence); sum and substance, gravamen, head and front; important part, principal part, prominent part, essential part; half the battle; sine qua non; breath of one's nostrils; (life);cream, salt, core, kernel, heart, nucleus; keynote, keystone; corner stone; trump card; (device); salient points. |
Mariner | Noun: sailor, mariner, navigator; seaman, seafarer, seafaring man; dock walloper; tar, jack tar, salt, able seaman, A. B.; man-of-war's man, bluejacket, galiongee, galionji, marine, jolly, midshipman, middy; skipper; shipman, boatman, ferryman, waterman, lighterman, bargeman, longshoreman; bargee, gondolier; oar, oarsman; rower; boatswain, coxswain; steersman, pilot; crew. |
Money | Currency, circulating medium, specie, coin, piece, hard cash, cold cash; dollar, sterling coin; pounds shillings and pence; Ls.d.; pocket, breeches pocket, purse; money in hand, cash at hand; ready money, ready cash; slug, wad wad of bills, wad of money, thick wad of bills, roll of dough; rhino, blunt, dust, mopus, tin, salt, chink; argent comptant; bottom dollar, buzzard dollar; checks, dibs. |
Preservation | Embalm, cure, salt, pickle, season, kyanize, bottle, pot, tin, can; sterilize, pasteurize, radiate; dry, lyophilize, freeze-dry, concentrate, evaporate; freeze, quick-freeze, deep-freeze; husband; (store). |
Pungency | Render -pungent. Adjective: season, spice, salt, pepper, pickle, brine, devil. smoke, chew, take snuff. |
Saltiness | Adjective: salty, salt, saline, brackish, briny; salty as brine, salty as a herring, salty as Lot's wife. |
Wit | Noun: wit, humor, wittiness; sense of humor; attic wit, attic salt; atticism; salt, esprit, point, fancy, whim, drollery, pleasantry. |
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Screenplays | Our mission after leaving high school as two aspiring young punks, I think like the only two punks in Salt Lake City at the time, was to go to University and bring down the system (S.L.C. Punk!; writing credit: James Merendino.) The salt balance has to be just right, so the best fat for making soap comes from humans (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) You know Salt, fear gets a bad rap. I don't want anybody in my outfit that doesn't get scared (Outbreak; writing credit: Laurence Dworet; Robert Roy Pool) Salt water makes Doyle bloat (Bio-Dome; writing credit: Adam Leff; Mitchell Peck) I just don't want anyone to slip me salt peter (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben) | |
Lyrics | Salt water trout, pretty young thing (Left & Right Featuring Method Man And Redman; performing artist: D'Angelo) Put your salt on the shelf (Video; performing artist: India.Arie) Searching for my lost shaker of salt (Margaritaville; performing artist: JIMMY BUFFET) I wanna taste the salt of your skin (How's It Going To Be; performing artist: Third Eye Blind) | |
Clever | Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Salt and Pepper (1968) The Historical Mystery: Miracle of Salt Lake (1938) Salt Water Daffy (1933) A Trip to Salt Lake City (1905) | |
Song Titles | PUSH IT (performing artist: SALT 'N PEPA) | |
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 | Mormons observing a parade. It is a bright sunny day in Salt Lake City. Pictured are crowds of people and also small groups of people. (note: this could be a picture of any people watching an outdoor event, such as a parade). The Mormons are being studied for their low cancer death rate-about 20% below the national average. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | Pictured are various views of portions of the Mormon Temple, Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints, Salt Lake City. The Mormons are being studied for their low cancer death rate, about 20% lower than the national average. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
 | The Dasht-e Kevir, or Great Salt Desert, is the largest desert in Iran. It is a primarily uninhabited wasteland, composed of mud and salt marshes covered with crusts of salt that protect the meager moisture from completely evaporating. Credit: NASA. |  | Great Salt Lake, UT. Credit: NASA. |
 | Crossing a railway embankment on the Salt Lake City Base Using the Eimbeck base bar apparatus Figure No. 8, Appendix No. 12 Part II, Report of the Superintendent ... 1897, p. 774. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Beginning the measurement of the Salt Lake City Base Perhaps last use of Eimbeck base bar apparatus Figure No. 7, Appendix No. 12 Part II, Report of the Superintendent ... 1897, p. 774. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | View from the northeastern edge of Provincetown. The windmills were used in the the production of salt. The high sand dunes added to the unique appearance of this Cape Cod town. In: Historical Collections ... of Every Town in Massachusetts. 1841. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | A view of Salt River Bay, where Columbus landed and was attacked by native Americans. This is a National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Salt and corned mutton - a few staples of the day at Scott's Hut Point shelter. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Salt Lake Bay, Port Frederick, Alaska 1982 May. Credit: Geodesy - Measuring the Earth. |
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| "Salt and pepper" by Justin Heit Commentary: "Late morning breakfast with warm colors and friends." | "Mormon Temple Salt Lake City" by Velda Christensen Commentary: "A view of the LDS temple from just outside the square." |
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The Talmud | These things are good in little measure and evil in large; yeast, salt, and hesitation. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He stood still, petrified like the pillar of salt, not daring to stir |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Pepper and salt suit |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | She mixed flour with grease in a kettle and added water and salt and stirred the gravy |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Sodium is found in salt and other foods. (references) | |
Dehydration is treated with salt and fluids. (references) | ||
Swelling resulting from buildup of salt and water. (references) | ||
Business | The terrain is mostly sand desert, barren mountains, and salt flats. (references) | |
About 20 former salt mines are also used to store, stabilize, and dispose of hazardous waste. (references) | ||
The quantity of waste going to salt mines is expected to remain stable, or even increase, if more sites are approved. (references) | ||
Children | El Salvador | The Government has a national plan for infants designed to increase access to potable water, iodized salt, and micronutrients, and to encourage breast feeding, but all of these remain problem areas, especially among the rural poor. (references) |
Economic History | Malta | National resources: Limestone, salt. (references) |
Ecuador | Morton (U.S.) produces salt with a local partner. (references) | |
Human Rights | Jordan | In July 2000, the GID detained 12 persons from Salt without charge, allegedly for security reasons. (references) |
Brazil | According to the organization, one prisoner's left arm was broken and another prisoner, Wilson Pereira da Silva, was beaten severely; police then threw a mixture of vinegar, water, and salt on his wounds. (references) | |
Jordan | By year's end, the GID had dropped charges against and released the 4 persons from Salt whom it had detained along with 8 others in July 2000. During the year, police detained up to hundreds of persons involved in protests against the Israeli Government's actions in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. (references) | |
Trade | Eritrea | The reform removes excise taxes on textiles and salt. (references) |
Eritrea | The list includes raw hides and skins, pulses, salt, oil seeds, clay bricks and beam tiles, steel sheets, cement, steel wires and nails, safety box matches, and weights and measures. (references) | |
Honduras | The following products are excluded from this requirement: alcoholic beverages containing 10 percent or more of alcohol by volume, bakery products which due to their nature are generally consumed within 24 hours of the time they were produced, vinegar, salt, chewing gum, fresh fruits and vegetables. (references) | |
Travel | Ghana | Add extra salt to your food to replace what your body loses in perspiration. (references) |
Chad | Avoid alcoholic beverages and (for some) increase salt intake in food to replace what is lost in perspiration. (references) | |
Ghana | While the salt water at the ocean beaches near Accra is relatively clean, the strong surf and treacherous undertow are extremely dangerous. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Mali | There were some reports that the de facto slavery long reported to have existed in northern salt mining communities has evolved to wage labor in recent years; however, reliable current evidence about labor conditions in those remote facilities remained unavailable. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LETTUCE, n. An herb of the genus Lactuca, "Wherewith," says that pious gastronome, Hengist Pelly, "God has been pleased to reward the good and punish the wicked. For by his inner light the righteous man has discerned a manner of compounding for it a dressing to the appetency whereof a multitude of gustible condiments conspire, being reconciled and ameliorated with profusion of oil, the entire comestible making glad the heart of the godly and causing his face to shine. But the person of spiritual unworth is successfully tempted to the Adversary to eat of lettuce with destitution of oil, mustard, egg, salt and garlic, and with a rascal bath of vinegar polluted with sugar. Wherefore the person of spiritual unworth suffers an intestinal pang of strange complexity and raises the song." |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | The American nuclear deterrent will remain strong after SALT II. |
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| "Salt" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.50% of the time. "Salt" is used about 2,566 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.5% | 2,476 | 3,639 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.11% | 80 | 37,112 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.31% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.08% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,566 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "salt" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Salt | Last name | 170 | 49,632 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "salt". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Tel-melah | N/A | Biblical | Heap of salt |
| Salacia | Female | Roman Mythology | The salt |
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Expressions using "salt": 1 quintal(dry salt fish) ♦ Above the salt ♦ Acid salt ♦ ad below the salt ♦ add a taste of salt ♦ add more salt ♦ add salt ♦ Alkaline salt ♦ Amphid salt ♦ attic salt ♦ Baker's salt ♦ Basic salt ♦ bay salt ♦ below the salt ♦ bicarbonate salt ♦ bile salt ♦ Binary salt ♦ bitter salt ♦ by salt ♦ celery salt ♦ Cell salt therapy ♦ common salt ♦ cooking salt ♦ dibasic salt ♦ Digestive salt ♦ Diuretic salt ♦ Double salt ♦ eat smb.'s salt ♦ ems salt ♦ emulsifying salt ♦ enriched kainit salt ♦ Epsom salt ♦ Essential salt ♦ Ethereal salt ♦ fixing salt ♦ fused salt ♦ garlic salt ♦ glaubers salt ♦ Glauber's salt ♦ grain of salt ♦ great Salt Lake ♦ green salt ♦ Green salt of Magnus ♦ hair salt ♦ Haloid salt ♦ in salt ♦ iodized salt ♦ kitchen salt ♦ lacking in salt ♦ microcosmic salt ♦ mineral salt ♦ molten salt oxidation ♦ monsels salt ♦ Monsel's salt ♦ neutral salt ♦ North Salt Lake ♦ not to be worth one's salt ♦ old salt ♦ onion salt ♦ oxy salt ♦ pepper and salt ♦ per cent salt ♦ per salt ♦ perennial salt marsh aster ♦ permanent salt ♦ pink salt ♦ Polychrest salt ♦ pour salt in the wound ♦ powder with salt ♦ primary salt ♦ proto salt ♦ Prunella salt ♦ removal of the salt ♦ remove the salt ♦ rochelle salt ♦ rock salt ♦ salt acid ♦ salt ammoniac ♦ salt and pepper ♦ salt away ♦ salt beef ♦ salt block ♦ salt bottom ♦ salt bubble ♦ salt cake ♦ salt cellar ♦ salt cod ♦ salt depletion ♦ salt desert ♦ salt down ♦ salt figure ♦ salt fish ♦ salt flat ♦ salt flats ♦ salt garden ♦ salt gauge ♦ Salt Gland ♦ Salt Gum ♦ salt herring ♦ salt horse ♦ SALT I. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "salt": salt-bathed, salt-bearing, salt-bleached, salt-box, salt-bridge, salt-burn, salt-bushes, salt-caked, salt-cat, salt-cellar, salt-cellars, salt-charged, salt-coffer, salt-covered, salt-cracked, salt-crusted, salt-cured, salt-dependence, salt-domes, salt-dried, salt-driven, salt-encrusted, salt-extraction, salt-fish, salt-free, salt-free diet, salt-gathering, salt-glaze, salt-glazed, Salt-green, salt-herring, salt-kissed, salt-laden, salt-lakes, salt-light, salt-loving, salt-making, salt-marsh, Salt-marsh caterpillar, Salt-marsh fleabane, Salt-marsh hen, Salt-marsh terrapin, salt-marshes, Salt-n-pepa, salt-of-the-earth, salt-peter, salt-petre, salt-pickled, salt-pond, salt-pools, salt-preserved, salt-pressed, salt-produced, salt-resistant, salt-rising bread, salt-scarred, salt-screw, salt-seasoned, salt-seeking, salt-sensitive, salt-set, salt-shaking, salt-smelling, salt-snail, salt-spattered, salt-spoon, salt-spoonful, salt-stained, salt-sticks, salt-stratified, salt-streaked, salt-streaks, salt-sugar, salt-tanned, salt-tolerant, salt-traders, salt-washed, salt-water, salt-water bream, salt-water chub, salt-water fish, Salt-water sailor, Salt-water tailor, salt-water trout, salt-waters, salt-wedge, salt-white, salt-working, salt-workings, salt-works. | |
Ending with "salt": low-salt, rice-salt, sea-salt. | |
Containing "salt": low-salt diet. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
salt lake city utah | 6,684 | veruca salt | 269 |
salt lake tribune | 4,226 | salt spring island | 245 |
salt lake city | 2,036 | salt lake city newspaper | 210 |
salt water aquarium | 1,493 | salt lake city airport | 189 |
salt water fish | 1,030 | salt lake county | 188 |
salt | 974 | salt peter | 177 |
bath salt | 596 | salt river tubing | 170 |
sea salt | 583 | salt and pepper | 163 |
salt lake community college | 577 | salt water taffy | 162 |
salt river project | 475 | salt lake city library | 156 |
dead sea salt | 400 | salt lake city real estate | 140 |
salt water fishing | 378 | bath salt recipe | 120 |
epsom salt | 352 | morton salt | 119 |
salt and pepper shaker | 348 | salt fork state park | 116 |
salt lake city hotel | 313 | great salt lake | 111 |
salt n pepa | 306 | low salt diet | 109 |
salt lake county library | 301 | salt lick | 108 |
salt water fish tank | 285 | covenant of salt | 106 |
salt lake | 277 | salt river | 105 |
lake salt stingers | 274 | salt water aquarium fish | 97 |
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| Language | Translations for "salt"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | sout. (various references) | |
Albanian | zmadhoj (aggrandize, amplify, augment, enhance, enlarge, exaggerate, extend, heighten, increase, magnify, overcharge, overcolor, overcolour, overdo, overdraw, overstate, redouble, stretch), mprehtësi (acuity, acumen, acuteness, clairvoyance, discernment, edge, insight, penetration, perspicacity, poignancy, quickness, resourcefulness, sharpness, subtlety), me kripë, kripos (brine, interlard), kripësi toke, kripë (broke, haloid, Sal), krip, i njelmët (saline, salty), i mprehtë (acute, astute, bright, clairvoyant, Clarion, discerning, edgy, exquisite, fine, high, high pitched, incisive, ingenious, keen, keen-witted, knowing, nimble, penetrating, penetrative, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, piercing, piping, pointed, pungent, quick, ridged, ridgy, sagacious, sharp, sharp cut, shrill, subtile, subtle, tart, trenchant), i kripur (corned, saline, salted, salty), i hidhur (acid, acidulated, acrid, acrimonious, bitter, distressing, sardonic), deti (billow, blue, drink, pelagian, saltwater). (various references) | |
Arabic | مَليح (pretty), مملح (bacon, corned, salted), ملاح (boatman, mariner, navigator, sailor, seafarer, seaman, tar), ملح الطعام, ملح (corn, cure, demanding, exigent, imperative, imperious, importunate, importune, insistent, insisting, interfering, obsessive, pertinacious, pressing, stringent, urgent), مالح (briny, saline, salty, savory, savoury), مرير (bitter, bitterly), تبل (flavor, flavour, relish, spice), إتفاقية الحد من سباق التسلح. (various references) | |
Asturian | sal. (various references) | |
Aymara | jayu. (various references) | |
Basque | gatz. (various references) | |
Bavarian | soiz. (various references) | |
Bemba | umucele. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | isttsiksipoko. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | надписвам (inscribe, letter, overcharge, superscribe), духовит (bright, epigrammatic, jocular, witty), имунизирам, пикантен (gamy, gingery, juicy, piquant, poignant, pungent, racy, rich, salacious, salty, savoury, spicy, tasty, zesty), пикантност (heat, piquancy, poignancy, pungency, raciness, salacity, savor, savour, spicery, zest), подправям (adulterate, cook, debase, doctor, dose, dress, fabricate, falsify, fiddle, fix up, flavour, forge, gaff, imitate, load, raise, season, sophisticate, spice, wangle), посолен (salted), посолявам, придавам пикантност на (sauce), лют (angry, biting, fiery, hot, peppery, pungent), живеещ в солени води, давам сол на, много скъп, соля, осолен, осолявам (corn, salt away, salt down), остроумие (ingeniousness, ingenuity, repartee, sparkle, wit, witticism, wittiness), остроумен (ingenious, patent, ready-witted, salty, smart, witty), горчив (bitter, poignant), растящ в солени води, сол (saline), солен (briny, corned, pickled, saline, salted, salty), солено поле, солено блато (salina, saline), много солен. (various references) | |
Cebuano | asin. (various references) | |
Chamorro | asiga. (various references) | |
Chinese | 鹺 (brine), 鹽 , 鹵 (brine, crass, halogen), 盐 (saline, salts), 滷 (brine, gravy). (various references) | |
Cornish | holan. (various references) | |
Czech | solit, solený (salted, salty), slaný (briny, salty, Savory), sùl (Sal), sůl, koření (condiment, seasoning, spice, spices, zest). (various references) | |
Danish | salt (sal, salted, salty). (various references) | |
Dutch | zouten (pickle), zout (salty). (various references) | |
Esperanto | salo, sali. (various references) | |
Faeroese | salt. (various references) | |
Farsi | نمکزار, نمکدان (Saltcellar, Saltshaker), نمک پاشیدن , نمک میوه , نمک های طبی , نمک زده ن به , نمک طعام , شورکردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | suola (rock salt). (various references) | |
French | sel (mineral salt, sal), saler (add salt, salts). (various references) | |
Frisian | sâlt (salty). (various references) | |
Galician | sal. (various references) | |
German | Salz, salzen (salts, salty, to salt). (various references) | |
Greek | αλάτι. (various references) | |
Haitian Creole | sèl. (various references) | |
Hebrew | למלוח (brine, marinate, salinate), לתבל (flavour, sauce, season, spice), להמליח, שנינות (cleverness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, perspicacity, sarcasm, subtlety, wit). (various references) | |
Hungarian | só (Sal), sózott (corned, in salt, salted, salty), sós (brackish, briny, in salt, pickled, poignant, saline, salty, savory, savoury). (various references) | |
Icelandic | saltleginn (salt-soaked). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengasini (pickle), garam (a mineral salt, effectiveness, experience). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | taqriuq. (various references) | |
Italian | sale (function rooms, meeting rooms, sal). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 塩. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しお (ebb and flood, opportunity, salt water, tide), なみのはな (crest of a wave), えんぶん (love affair, love letter, ones love story, redundancy in a text, romance, salt content), えん (bonds, chance, charming, circle, connection, dam, destiny, false charge, fascinating, fate, garden, hatred, karma, relation, voluptuous, weir, Yen). (various references) | |
Korean | 소금 (salts). (various references) | |
Macedonian | sol. (various references) | |
Malay | garam. (various references) | |
Manx | sollan, sailley (brine, corn, cure, pickle, salt water), sailjey (brackish, briny, corned, pickled, saline, salty), cur sollan er, cur sheese (book, deposit, depress, discharge, give in, lay, lower, prescribe, put down, send down, suppress). (various references) | |
Maori | tote. (various references) | |
Maya | ta'ab. (various references) | |
Mohawk | tyohyòtsis. (various references) | |
Norwegian | salt. (various references) | |
Occitan | salat (salted), sal. (various references) | |
Papago | on. (various references) | |
Papiamen | salu (salty), salo, salga, sala (living-room, lounge, parlour, salon, sitting-room). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | altsay.(various references) | |
Polish | sól. (various references) | |
Portuguese | sal (sal), salgar (brine, corn, gammon, kipper). (various references) | |
Provencal | sal. (various references) | |
Romanian | sare (pep, salts, spice), salinitate (salinity, saltiness), salin (saline), sãrat (briny, saline, salted, salty, steep), sãra (brine, corn, cure, powder, powder with salt, souse), presãra cu sare, conserva în saramurã, conservat (bottled, canned, conserved, preserved, tinned), exagera (aggrandize, draw the long draw, enhance, exaggerate, exceed, lay it on, magnify, overdo, overdraw, overestimate, overrate, overshoot oneself, overstate, pile it on, put it on, stick on, stretch, talk through one's hat, throw the hatchet), farmec (allurement, amenity, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, charm, delight, enchantment, endearment, enticement, fascination, glamor, glamour, grace, loveliness, lure, relish, seduction, sex appeal, spell, spicery, witchery), haz (frolic, fun, gracefulness, humor, humour, jocularity, spicery, sport, wit), imuniza (immunize), pãstrat în sare, amar (bitter, bitterly, bitterness, dreadful, gall, poignant, rude, severe, sore, sour, suffering), piperat (juicy, peppery, steep, swollen), trata cu o sare, pus la sare, ridica (advance, aggrandize, appear, arise, arrest, ascend, assemble, balloon, bring up, build, carry up, collect, construct, convene, create, draw the cloth, elevate, encash, enhance, erect, found, get up, heave, hoist, interpose, kick up, lift, loop, Mount, muster, perk up, pick up, pitch, pose, prong, pry, put, put up, raise, receive, remove, resound, rise, round up, set up, shovel, start, step up, stick up, straighten, strike, suspend, take up, up, uplift, weigh), picant (attractive, fruity, hot, peppery, piquant, poignant, pungent, racy, Savory, savoury, snappy, spicy). (various references) | |
Romansch | sal. (various references) | |
Romany | lon. (various references) | |
Ruanda | umunyu. (various references) | |
Russian | соль (g, sal, sal 2, saline), соленый (briny, corned, pickled, saline, salted), солить соль, солить (brine, pickle, salt away), слишком дорогой, неприличный (fie-fie, graceless, improper, indecent, indecorous, nasty, naughty, obscene, spicy, unbecoming, unrepeatable), морской (marine, maritime, nautical, naval, Neptunian, pelagian, saltwater, salt-water, sea), засоленный (saline), засаливать (pickle, preserve by salting), жгучий (burning, scalding), бывалый моряк (water dog, water-dog), поваренная соль. (various references) | |
Samoan | masima. (various references) | |
Scottish | salann. (various references) | |
Sepedi | letswai. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | so (sal), slan (briny, saline, salty), usoljen (corned, soused), usoliti (preserve by salting, rouse, salt away, souse), posoliti, osoliti. (various references) | |
Shona | munyu. (various references) | |
Sicilian | sali. (various references) | |
Spanish | sal (raciness, Sal, sauce, wit). (various references) | |
Sranan | sowtu (salty). (various references) | |
Swahili | chumvi. (various references) | |
Swazi | lú-tswáyi. (various references) | |
Swedish | salt (briny, salty, Savory, savoury), salta. (various references) | |
Tagalog | asin. (various references) | |
Turkish | tuz (Sal). (various references) | |
Turkmen | duzlamak, duz. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сіль (saline), соляний (saline), солончаковий, солоний (briny, corned, pickled, saline, salt water, salted, salty), солити (brine, pickle, salt away), непристойний (bad, bawdy, beastly, blue, coarse, dirty, fie-fie, foul, graceless, greasy, immodest, improper, impure, indecent, lewd, nasty, nubbly, obscene, off color, off colour, paw-paw, ribald, salacious, scabrous, scurrilous, shameless, smutty, sultry, unbecoming, unchaste), засолювати (corn, salt down), засолений (salted), дотеп (esprit, gag, joke, mot, nifty, quirk, repartee, wheeze, wisecrack, witticism, yak). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sắc sảo (astute, cute), sự sắc sảo (astuteness, mustard, sagacity, sting, stung), sự hóm hỉnh, thương tâm châm chọc, tẩm muối, muối sự châm chọc, hóm hỉnh tục, có muối (salted), ướp muối (preservation). (various references) | |
Welsh | halwyn (salts), halltu, hallt (brackish, salty, severe), halen (brine). (various references) | |
Yucatec | ta'ab. (various references) | |
Zulu | usawoti. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | dinig, munu. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | sal. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | sealt. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | sal petrae. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 14, Verse 34 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kalon to alaV ean de to alaV mwranqh en tini artuqhsetai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Bonum est sal si autem sal quoque evanuerit in quo condietur |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | God ys sealt gif hit awyrð on þam þe hit gesylt bið. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Salt is good; but if salt vanysche, in what thing schal it be sauerid? |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Salt is good but yf salt have loste hyr saltnes what shall be seasoned ther with? |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Salt is good: but if the salt hath lost its savor, with what shall it be seasoned? |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For salt is good, but if the taste goes from it, of what use is it? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 14, Verse 34 |
| Cebuano | "Ang asin maoy usa ka maayong butang; apan kon ang asin kawad-an sa iyang lami, unsaon pa man sa pagpabalik sa kaparat niini? |
| Croatian | "Dobra je sol. Ali ako i sol obljutavi, èime æe se ona zaèiniti? |
| Danish | Saltet er altså godt; men dersom også Saltet mister sin Kraft, hvorved skal det da få den igen? |
| Dutch | Het zout is goed; maar indien het zout smakeloos geworden is, waarmede zal het smakelijk gemaakt worden? |
| Finnish | Suola on hyvä; mutta jos suolakin käy mauttomaksi, millä se saadaan suolaiseksi? |
| French | Le sel est une bonne chose; mais si le sel perd sa saveur, avec quoi l`assaisonnera-t-on? |
| German | Das Salz ist ein gutes Ding; wo aber das Salz dumm wird, womit wird man's würzen? |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | "Garam itu baik, tetapi kalau menjadi tawar, mungkinkah diasinkan kembali? |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Adapun garam itu baik; tetapi jikalau garam itu menjadi tawar, dengan apakah dapat ia dimasinkan pula? |
| Italian | Il sale è buono, ma se anche il sale perdesse il sapore, con che cosa lo si salerà? |
| Latvian | Sâls ir laba lieta, bet ja sâls paliek nederîga, kâ lai to uzlabo? |
| Manx Gaelic | Ta sollan mie: agh my ta'n sollan er choayl e vlass, kys hig e vree ayn reesht? |
| Maori | No reira he pai te tote: otira ki te hemo te ha o te tote, ma te aha ka whai ha ai? |
| Norwegian | Salt er en god ting, men når også saltet mister sin kraft, hvad skal det da saltes med? |
| Portuguese | Bom é o sal; mas se o sal se tornar insípido, com que se há de restaurar-lhe o sabor? |
| Rumanian | Sarea este bunq; dar dacq sarea kwi pierde gustul ei de sare, prin ce i se va da knapoi gustul acesta? |
| Russian | уПМШ--ДПВТБС ЧЕЭШ; ОП ЕУМЙ УПМШ РПФЕТСЕФ УЙМХ, ЮЕН ЙУРТБЧЙФШ ЕЕ? |
| Shuar | `Weeka jeaku pénkeraiti. Tura michumarka ¿itiurak atak pénker ati? |
| Spanish | "Buena es la sal; pero si la sal se vuelve insípida, ¿con qué será sazonada? |
| Swahili | "Chumvi ni nzuri; lakini ikipoteza ladha yake, itakolezwa na nini? |
| Swedish | Så är väl saltet en god sak, men om till och med saltet mister sin sälta, varmed skall man då återställa dess kraft? |
| Uma | "Poi', wori' kalaua-na. Aga ane mobali' -mi kapoi' -na alaa-na uma-pi mopoi', napa tena to ma'ala mpakapoi' -i? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "salt": saltant, saltarelli, saltarello, saltarellos, saltation, saltations, saltatorial, saltatory, saltbox, saltboxes, saltbush, saltbushes, saltcellar, saltcellars, salted, salter, saltern, salterns, salters, saltest, saltie, saltier, saltiers, salties, saltiest, saltily, saltimbocca, saltimboccas, saltine, saltines, saltiness, saltinesses, salting, saltings, saltire, saltires, saltish, saltless, saltlike, saltness, saltnesses, saltpan, saltpans, saltpeter, saltpeters, salts, saltshaker, saltshakers, saltwater, saltwork, saltworks. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "salt": basalt, desalt, oversalt, oxysalt, persalt. (additional references) | |
Words containing "salt": basaltes, basaltic, basalts, desalted, desalter, desalters, desalting, desalts, drysalter, drysalteries, drysalters, drysaltery, misalter, misaltered, misaltering, misalters, oversalted, oversalting, oversalts, oxysalts, persalts, psalter, psalteria, psalteries, psalterium, psalters, psaltery, psaltries, psaltry, unsalted. (additional references) | |
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"Salt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: asalt, Aslet, Asmt, asult, esetl, eslat, Isolt, nalt, psalt, saal, saat, sact, saft, sahl, saht, Sait, sala, salat, salati, salb, sald, salf, Salg, salit, salk, sall, saln, salo, salot, salte, Salto, salu, salut, salv, salw, salz, Samlot, samt, sant, sapt, sast, satt, Sattb, saut, Sawt, saxt, sealt, selq, selt, setl, silth, sla, Slatt, slaut, slet, smaltz, sult, zal, zalt, zelt, zolt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "salt" (pronounced sô"lt) |
| 4 | s ô" l t | assault, basalt, Sault. |
| 3 | -ô" l t | default, exalt, fault, Gault, halt, malt, vault. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: alts, last, lats, slat. | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-s-t" | |
-1 letter: als, alt, las, lat, sal, sat, tas. | |
-2 letters: al, as, at, la, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-s-t" | |
+1 letter: alist, altos, atlas, blast, blats, clast, flats, halts, lasts, laths, least, litas, lotas, malts, plats, salts, salty, sault, setal, shalt, slant, slate, slats, slaty, smalt, splat, stale, stalk, stall, steal, stela, taels, tails, talas, talcs, tales, talks, talus, teals, tesla, tolas. | |
+2 letters: ablest, adults, aglets, alants, alates, alerts, allots, almost, altars, alters, artels, aslant, astral, atolls, basalt, blasts, blasty, bleats, bloats, castle, claspt, clasts, cleats, costal, cutlas, deltas, desalt, distal, eclats, elates, estral, exalts, faults, festal, flatus, floats, flotas, gaslit, gaults, gloats, halest, haslet, instal, lamest, lasted, laster, lastly, latens, latest, lathes, lathis, latish, latkes, lattes, laxest, leasts, lotahs, lovats, lustra, lysate, lyttas, metals, oblast, osteal, palest, palets, pastel, pastil, petals, plaits, plants, plates, platys, pleats, postal, ratals, ratels, sallet, salted, salter, saltie, salute, samlet, santol, saults, septal, shelta, skatol, slants, slanty, slatch, slated, slater, slates, slatey, smalti, smalto, smalts, solate, spital, splats, stable, stably, stalag, staled, staler, stales, stalks, stalky, stalls, staple, statal, steals, stelae, stelai, stelar, stella, stomal, stylar, sultan, tablas, tables, tahsil, talars, talers, tallis, talons, taluks, tamals, tarsal, tassel, teasel, tepals, teslas, ticals, tilaks, tolans, tolars, totals, trails, trawls, trials, tussal, ultras, valets, vastly, vaults, vestal, vitals. | |
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