salt
adj 1: containing or filled with salt; "salt water" [ant: {fresh}]
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 [syn: {salty}]
4: (used especially of meats) preserved in salt [syn: {salt(a)},
{salted}, {salt-cured}]
n 1: 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 [syn: {table salt}, {common salt}]
3: negotiations between the US and the USSR opened in 1969 in
Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of
nuclear weapons [syn: {Strategic Arms Limitation Talks}, {SALT}]
4: the taste experience when salt is taken into the mouth [syn:
{saltiness}, {salinity}]
v 1: add salt to
2: preserve with salt, as of meats