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Definition: SALT PAN |
SALT PAN1. (a) A large pan used for making salt by evaporation; also, a shallow basin in the ground where salt water is evaporated by the heat of the sun. (b) pl. Salt works. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Geography | Undrained, small, shallow natural depression in which water accumulates and evaporates, leaving a salt deposit. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Enclosed basin or basin connected with the sea in which the waters become saturated or oversaturated with salts due to high evaporation. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A salt pan is a place where water pools when it rains. A salt pan would be a lake or a pond if it was in a location in a climate where the rate of water evaporation wasn't faster than the rate of water precipitation, i.e., if it wasn't in a desert. If the water is unable to drain into the ground, it sits on the surface until it evaporates. When the water evaporates it leaves behind whatever minerals were dissolved in it. Over thousands of years, the minerals (usually salts) accumulate until the the surface is white with it. There are many salt pans in the south-western United States. You can see them from an airliner; from that height a salt pan can look like a frozen lake or a snowfield.
Salt pans can be dangerous. You should never attempt to cross a salt pan on foot or in a vehicle unless you know exactly what you are doing. The crust of salt can conceal a quagmire of mud that can engulf a truck. One section of the eastern Sahara desert contains many such raps; it was a strategic barrier during World War II.
The two best-known salt pans in the USA are probably the one where Burning Man Festival is held, and the Salt Lake Desert, a vast flat plain where many land speed records have been set.
The Etosha Pan in the Etosha National Park in Namibia is another prominent example of a salt pan.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Salt pan."
Crosswords: SALT PAN |
| English words defined with "SALT PAN": Brine pan. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SALT PAN": flour salt ♦ marsh pan. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "SALT PAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pellg kripe (salt-pond), liqen kripe. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | солница (pan, salt pit, salt-box, saltcellar, saltern, saltshaker, saltworks), солено езеро. (various references) | |
Czech | loï (boat, craft, lugger, sailer, ship, vessel). (various references) | |
Danish | saltsænkning (saltpan), saltpande, saltkedel (saltpan), saltgryde, bassin til produktion af salt. (various references) | |
Dutch | zoutpan (brine pond, salt marsh), kwelderpan (saltpan). (various references) | |
Finnish | suola-allas (saltpan). (various references) | |
French | partènement, nourrice, horizon dur et salé, fond salant, cuvette sel (saltpan). (various references) | |
German | Salzpfanne (saltpan). (various references) | |
Greek | σκληρός αλατούχος ορίζοντας, λεκάνη συμπύκνωσης, λεκάνη αλυκής (pan), αλίπεδο (saline). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sós mocsár (salt). (various references) | |
Italian | strato indurito e salato del suolo, Serbatoio di riserva (reserve tank), bacino di roccolta delle acque. (various references) | |
Manx | lhag sollan. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | altsay anpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | viveiro (coop, corf, farm, hatchery, nursery, nursery garden, pond, run, seed plot, vivarium, yard), tina de sal (saltpan), laguna salgada, compartimento (bay, box stall, branch, cage, carrel, cell, compartment, coupé, cubicle, magazine, pigeonhole, pocket, recess, section, speciality, trap). (various references) | |
Romanian | salinã (saltern, saltworks). (various references) | |
Russian | соляное озеро, чрен для выпарки рассола. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | solanska jama. (various references) | |
Spanish | salina (brine pond, salina, saline, salt marsh, salt pit, salt works, saltern), recipiente utilizado para obtener sal, piscina de concentración del agua de mar, piscina de agua de mar en una salina, cubeta de sal (saltpan). (various references) | |
Swedish | saltpanna (saltpan), mellanlagringsdamm, flackt,avloppslöst bäcken,vari hopats salter genom det tillrinnande vattnets avdunstning (saltpan), dekantering (decantation, decanting). (various references) | |
Turkish | tuzla (saline, salt marsh, saltern, saltpan, saltworks). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: platans, saltpan. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-l-n-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: alants, aslant, plants, platan. | |
-2 letters: alans, alant, anlas, antas, ataps, atlas, nasal, natal, pants, pasta, plans, plant, plats, salpa, slant, splat, talas, tapas. | |
-3 letters: aals, alan, alas, alps, alts, anal, anas, ansa, anta, ants, atap, laps, last, lats, naps, pals, pans, pant, past, pats, plan, plat, salp, salt, slap, slat, snap, span, spat, tala, tans, tapa, taps. | |
-4 letters: aal, aas, ala, alp, als, alt, ana, ant, apt, asp, lap, las, lat, nap, pal, pan, pas, pat, sal, sap, sat, spa, tan, tap, tas. | |
-5 letters: aa, al, an, as, at, la, na, pa, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-l-n-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: ashplant, platanes, platinas, pleasant, postanal, saltpans. | |
+2 letters: ashplants, palatines, panatelas, panetelas, pantalets, placentas, plantains, plantsman, postnatal, rataplans, talapoins, waxplants. | |
+3 letters: altiplanos, analeptics, anaplastic, antipodals, appellants, applicants, asphalting, cantaloups, leadplants, nameplates, nonspatial, palmations, palpations, pantalones, pantaloons, partisanly, phantasmal, placations, placentals, planations, pleasanter, pleasantly, pleasantry, polyanthas, spallation, tailplanes, tarpaulins, transeptal, transplant, transpolar, unpastoral, unpleasant. | |
+4 letters: analphabets, angioplasty, antechapels, antiphonals, antiplagues, cantaloupes, complaisant, encapsulate, floatplanes, landscapist, manipulates, noncapitals, nyctalopias, palatinates, palliations, pantalettes, parliaments, pastureland, paternalism, paternalist, pentagonals, phalanstery, plainchants, planarities, plantations, playactings, pleasantest, postcranial, postnatally, spallations, topgallants, transalpine, transplants. | |
+5 letters: antipleasure, appellations, applications, appositional, aspirational, capitalising, complainants, cryptanalyst, encapsulated, encapsulates, explanations, kleptomanias, landscapists, malapertness, manipulators, naphthalenes, palatialness, palpitations, pansexuality, passionately, pastoralness, pasturelands, paternalisms, paternalists, planetariums, planetesimal, plantigrades, plastocyanin, platemakings, pleasantness, pleasantries, postneonatal, postprandial, postvaccinal, proletarians, speciational, supernatural, synaptically, synaptosomal, transplanted, transplanter, transposable, unpleasantly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 41 4C 54 50 41 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01000001 01001100 01010100 00100000 01010000 01000001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S A L T   P A N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0041 004C 0054 0050 0041 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)533546542503548 |
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