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Meaning of salt

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  salt
      adj 1: (of speech) painful or bitter; "salt scorn"- Shakespeare;
             "a salt apology"
      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: {salt}, {table salt}, {common
         salt}]
      3: 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
         [syn: {Strategic Arms Limitation Talks}, {SALT}]
      4: the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
         [syn: {salt}, {saltiness}, {salinity}]
      v 1: add salt to
      2: sprinkle as if with salt; "the rebels had salted the fields
         with mines and traps"
      3: add zest or liveliness to; "She salts her lectures with
         jokes"
      4: preserve with salt; "people used to salt meats on ships"

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