salt
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą (compare Dutch zout, German Salz, Norwegian Bokmål salt and Swedish salt), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l- (compare Welsh halen, Old Irish salann, Latin sal, Russian соль (solʹ), Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls), Albanian ngjelmë (“salty, savory”), Old Armenian աղ (ał), Tocharian A sāle, Sanskrit सलिल (salila)).
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) IPA(key): /sɔːlt/, /sɒlt/
- (US) IPA(key): /sɔlt/, /sɑlt/
- (General New Zealand)IPA(key): /sɒɯt/
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NounEdit
salt (countable and uncountable, plural salts)
- A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
- c. 1430 (reprinted 1888), Thomas Austin, ed., Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: N. Trübner & Co. for the Early English Text Society, volume I, OCLC 374760, page 11:
- Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke […] caste þher-to Safroun an Salt […]
- c. 1430 (reprinted 1888), Thomas Austin, ed., Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: N. Trübner & Co. for the Early English Text Society, volume I, OCLC 374760, page 11:
- (chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
- (uncommon) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
- (slang) A sailor (also old salt).
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
- Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 1
- I never go as a passenger; nor, though I am something of a salt, do I ever go to sea as a Commodore, or a Captain, or a Cook.
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
- (cryptography) Randomly chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting or hashing it, in order to render brute-force decryption more difficult.
- A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
- (obsolete) Flavour; taste; seasoning.
- Shakespeare
- Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen […] we have some salt of our youth in us.
- Shakespeare
- (obsolete) Piquancy; wit; sense.
- Attic salt
- (obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
- Samuel Pepys
- I out and bought some things; among others, a dozen of silver salts.
- Samuel Pepys
- (figuratively) Skepticism and common sense.
- Any politician's statements must be taken with a grain of salt, but his need to be taken with a whole shaker of salt.
- (Internet slang) Indignation; outrage; arguing.
- There was so much salt in that thread about the poor casting decision.
Derived termsEdit
- besalted
- chicken salt
- desalt
- Epsom salt
- Great Salt Lake
- hair-salt
- persalt
- pinch of salt
- protosalt
- rock salt
- rub salt in the wound
- salt and pepper
- saltcellar
- salt-free
- salt lake
- Salt Lake City
- Salt Lake County
- salt marsh
- salt of the earth
- salt sea
- saltspoon
- saltwater
- salty
- sea salt
- table salt
- take with a pinch of salt
- worth one's salt
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
sodium chloride
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compound of an acid and a base
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salt marsh — see salt marsh
sailor
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additional bytes inserted into an encryption
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AdjectiveEdit
salt (comparative more salt, superlative most salt)
- Salty; salted.
- salt beef; salt tears
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- Philander went into the next room […] and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
- Saline.
- a salt marsh; salt grass
- Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
- a salt mine
- The salt factory is a key connecting element in the seawater infrastructure.
- (figuratively, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.
- c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, Scene 4,[1]
- I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me;
- c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, Scene 4,[1]
- (figuratively, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.
- 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello Act III, Scene 3:
- It is impossible you should see this, / Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys, / As salt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross / As ignorance made drunk.
- 1653, Thomas Urquhart (translator), The First Book of the works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Book 2, Chapter 22, p. 153,[2]
- And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their accesse to her, and every way keeping such a coyle with her, as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed […]
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
salty
saline
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VerbEdit
salt (third-person singular simple present salts, present participle salting, simple past and past participle salted)
- (transitive) To add salt to.
- to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter
- (intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.
- The brine begins to salt.
- To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
- To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
- (mining) To blast gold into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
- (archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archeological site.
- To include colorful language in.
- (cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
AntonymsEdit
- (add salt): desalt
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to add salt to
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to include colorful language
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AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin saltus.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
salt m (plural salts)
Related termsEdit
Crimean GothicEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l-.
NounEdit
salt
- salt
- 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
- Salt. Sal.
- 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
CzechEdit
DanishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse saltr (“salt”), from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls, *sáls.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
salt
InflectionEdit
| Inflection of salt | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Comparative | Superlative | |
| Common singular | salt | saltere | saltest2 |
| Neuter singular | salt | saltere | saltest2 |
| Plural | salte | saltere | saltest2 |
| Definite attributive1 | salte | saltere | salteste |
| 1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively. | |||
Etymology 2Edit
From Old Norse salt (akin to Old Saxon salt, Old High German salz, Old Dutch salt, Old English sealt), from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls. Compare Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish salt.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
salt n (singular definite saltet, plural indefinite salte)
InflectionEdit
Declension of salt
Etymology 3Edit
See the etymology of the main entry.
VerbEdit
salt
- imperative of salte
Related termsEdit
FaroeseEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls, *sáls.
NounEdit
salt n (genitive singular salts, plural sølt)
DeclensionEdit
| Declension of salt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n5 | singular | plural | ||
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | salt | saltið | sølt | søltini |
| accusative | salt | saltið | sølt | søltini |
| dative | salti | saltinum | søltum | søltunum |
| genitive | salts | saltsins | salta | saltanna |
Related termsEdit
- pipar
- edikur
- sinnopur
- olivinolja
- epli
- pannukøka
- rosina
- sukur
- drúvusukur
- vaniljusukur
- súltusukur
- siropur
Etymology 2Edit
From Old Norse saltr (“salt”), from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls, *sáls.
AdjectiveEdit
salt
DeclensionEdit
| saltur a21 | |||
| Singular (eintal) | m (kallkyn) | f (kvennkyn) | n (hvørkikyn) |
| Nominative (hvørfall) | saltur | sølt | salt |
| Accusative (hvønnfall) | saltan | salta | |
| Dative (hvørjumfall) | søltum | saltari | søltum |
| Genitive (hvørsfall) | (salts) | (saltar/ saltrar) |
(salts) |
| Plural (fleirtal) | m (kallkyn) | f (kvennkyn) | n (hvørkikyn) |
| Nominative (hvørfall) | saltir | saltar | sølt |
| Accusative (hvønnfall) | saltar | ||
| Dative (hvørjumfall) | søltum | ||
| Genitive (hvørsfall) | (salta saltra) | ||
FriulianEdit
GothicEdit
IcelandicEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls, *sáls.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
salt n (genitive singular salts, nominative plural sölt)
- salt
- Geturðu rétt mér saltið?
- Can you pass me the salt?
- Geturðu rétt mér saltið?
DeclensionEdit
declension of salt
Derived termsEdit
AdjectiveEdit
salt
- positive neuter singular nominative or accusative of saltur
LatvianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“cold; hot”). Cognates include Lithuanian šálti.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
salt intr., 1st conj., pres. salstu, salsti, salst, past salu
- to freeze
DeclensionEdit
conjugation of salt
| INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme) | IMPERATIVE (pavēles izteiksme) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present (tagadne) |
Past (pagātne) |
Future (nākotne) | |||
| 1st pers. sg. | es | salstu | salu | salšu | — |
| 2nd pers. sg. | tu | salsti | sali | salsi | salsti |
| 3rd pers. sg. | viņš, viņa | Lua error: not enough memory | Lua error: not enough memory | Lua error: not enough memory | Lua error: not enough memory Lua error: not enough memory |
| 1st pers. pl. | Lua error: not enough memory | Lua error: not enough memory | Lua error: not enough memory | Lua error: not enough memory | Lua error: not enough memory |
| 2nd pers. pl. | Lua error: not enough memory | Lua error: not enough memory | Lua error: not enough memory | Lua error: not enough memory, Lua error: not enough memory |
Lua error: not enough memory |
| 3rd pers. pl. | Lua error: not enough memory, Lua error: not enough memory | Lua error: not enough memory | Lua error: not enough memory | Lua error: not enough memory | Lua error: not enough memory Lua error: not enough memory |
| RENARRATIVE (atstāstījuma izteiksme) | PARTICIPLES (divdabji) | ||||
| Present | Lua error: not enough memory | Present Active 1 (Adj.) | Lua error: not enough memory | ||
| Past | Lua error: not enough memory Lua error: not enough memory | Present Active 2 (Adv.) | Lua error: not enough memory | ||
| Future | Lua error: not enough memory | Present Active 3 (Adv.) | Lua error: not enough memory | ||
| Imperative | Lua error: not enough memory Lua error: not enough memory | Present Active 4 (Obj.) | Lua error: not enough memory | ||
| CONDITIONAL (vēlējuma izteiksme) | Past Active | Lua error: not enough memory | |||
| Present | Lua error: not enough memory | Present Passive | Lua error: not enough memory | ||
| Past | Lua error: not enough memory Lua error: not enough memory | Past Passive | Lua error: not enough memory | ||
| DEBITIVE (vajadzības izteiksme) | NOMINAL FORMS | ||||
| Indicative | (Lua error: not enough memory) Lua error: not enough memory | Infinitive (nenoteiksme) | Lua error: not enough memory | ||
| Conjunctive 1 | Lua error: not enough memory Lua error: not enough memory | Negative Infinitive | Lua error: not enough memory | ||
| Conjunctive 2 | Lua error: not enough memory | Verbal noun | Lua error: not enough memory | ||
Middle EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- Lua error: not enough memory
EtymologyEdit
From Lua error: not enough memory, from Lua error: not enough memory (noun) and Lua error: not enough memory (adjective).
PronunciationEdit
- Lua error: not enough memory
NounEdit
Lua error: not enough memory (uncountableLua error: not enough memory)
- Lua error: not enough memory Lua error: not enough memory
- Something containing or for storing salt
- Any of a group of crystalline compounds that resemble salt
Related termsEdit
- Lua error: not enough memory
- Lua error: not enough memory
DescendantsEdit
- Lua error: not enough memory
- Lua error: not enough memory, Lua error: not enough memory, Lua error: not enough memory
ReferencesEdit
- “salt (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.
AdjectiveEdit
Lua error: not enough memory
- salty, tasting of salt
- salted, coated in salt
DescendantsEdit
- Lua error: not enough memory
- Lua error: not enough memory, Lua error: not enough memory, Lua error: not enough memory
ReferencesEdit
- “salt (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Lua error: not enough memory
PronunciationEdit
Lua error: not enough memory
Etymology 1Edit
From Lua error: not enough memory.
AdjectiveEdit
Lua error: not enough memory
- Lua error: not enough memory, Lua error: not enough memory, Lua error: not enough memory
- salte peanøtter - salted peanuts
Etymology 2Edit
From Lua error: not enough memory (akin to Lua error: not enough memory, Lua error: not enough memory, Old Dutch salt, Lua error: not enough memory), from Lua error: not enough memory, from Lua error: not enough memory, Lua error: not enough memory. Compare Danish, Swedish and Lua error: not enough memory.
NounEdit
Lua error: not enough memory
- Lua error: not enough memory
Etymology 3Edit
VerbEdit
Lua error: not enough memory
- Lua error: not enough memory
Derived termsEdit
Lua error: not enough memory
ReferencesEdit
- Lua error: not enough memory
Norwegian NynorskEdit
Lua error: not enough memory
PronunciationEdit
- Lua error: not enough memory
Etymology 1Edit
From Lua error: not enough memory.
AdjectiveEdit
Lua error: not enough memory
- Lua error: not enough memory, Lua error: not enough memory, Lua error: not enough memory
Etymology 2Edit
From Lua error: not enough memory (akin to Lua error: not enough memory, Lua error: not enough memory, Old Dutch salt, Lua error: not enough memory), from Lua error: not enough memory, from Lua error: not enough memory, Lua error: not enough memory.
NounEdit
Lua error: not enough memory
- Lua error: not enough memory
Derived termsEdit
- Lua error: not enough memory
- Lua error: not enough memory
- Lua error: not enough memory Lua error: not enough memory
- Lua error: not enough memory
- Lua error: not enough memory
- Lua error: not enough memory
- Lua error: not enough memory
ReferencesEdit
- Lua error: not enough memory
Old DanishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Lua error: not enough memory.
NounEdit
Lua error: not enough memory
- Lua error: not enough memory
DescendantsEdit
- Danish: Lua error: not enough memory
Etymology 2Edit
From Lua error: not enough memory.
AdjectiveEdit
Lua error: not enough memory
- Lua error: not enough memory, Lua error: not enough memory
DescendantsEdit
- Danish: Lua error: not enough memory
Old FrisianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Lua error: not enough memory, Lua error: not enough memory.
NounEdit
Lua error: not enough memory
- Lua error: not enough memory
DeclensionEdit
Lua error: not enough memory
DescendantsEdit
- North Frisian:
- Föhr-Amrum: Lua error: not enough memory
- West Frisian: Lua error: not enough memory
AdjectiveEdit
Lua error: not enough memory
DescendantsEdit
- West Frisian: Lua error: not enough memory
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Lua error: not enough memory.
PronunciationEdit
- Lua error: not enough memory
NounEdit
Lua error: not enough memory
DeclensionEdit
declension of salt
| singular | plural | |||
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| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) Lua error: not enough memory | Lua error: not enough memory | (niște) Lua error: not enough memory | Lua error: not enough memory |
| genitive/dative | (unui) Lua error: not enough memory | Lua error: not enough memory | (unor) Lua error: not enough memory | Lua error: not enough memory |
| vocative | Lua error: not enough memory | Lua error: not enough memory | ||
Related termsEdit
- Lua error: not enough memory
- Lua error: not enough memory
- Lua error: not enough memory
- Lua error: not enough memory
- Lua error: not enough memory
- Lua error: not enough memory
SwedishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Lua error: not enough memory, from Lua error: not enough memory, from Lua error: not enough memory, from Lua error: not enough memory, Lua error: not enough memory, Lua error: not enough memory.
PronunciationEdit
- Lua error: not enough memory
Lua error: not enough memoryaudio (file)
AdjectiveEdit
Lua error: not enough memory
DeclensionEdit
Lua error: not enough memory
Etymology 2Edit
From Lua error: not enough memory, from Lua error: not enough memory (akin to Old Saxon Lua error: not enough memory, Old High German Lua error: not enough memory, Old Dutch salt, Old English Lua error: not enough memory), from Lua error: not enough memory, from Lua error: not enough memory, Lua error: not enough memory. Compare Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian Lua error: not enough memory.
NounEdit
Lua error: not enough memory
- Lua error: not enough memory
- Lua error: not enough memory sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
- Lua error: not enough memory One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
DeclensionEdit
Lua error: not enough memory
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
- Lua error: not enough memory
- Lua error: not enough memory
TurkishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Lua error: not enough memory
PronunciationEdit
Lua error: not enough memory
AdverbEdit
Lua error: not enough memory
- Lua error: not enough memory exclusively
- Lua error: not enough memory