1. White crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
   "She sprinkled table salt on her french fries";
   - table salt, common salt
    
2. The taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
   "The salt of the sea air was invigorating";
   - saltiness, salinity
    
3. A compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
   "Table salt is the most common example of an ionic salt"
    
4. (cryptography) random content added to a message before encryption in order to make decryption more difficult
   "Adding a salt to passwords enhances security against rainbow table attacks"

1. Containing salt or tasting of salt
   "salt water";
   - salty
    
2. (of speech) painful or bitter
   "salt scorn"; "a salt apology"

1. (cooking) add salt to
   "She salted the stew generously"
    
2. (cooking) preserve with salt
   "people used to salt meats on ships"
    
3. Sprinkle as if with salt
   "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps"
    
4. Add zest or liveliness to
   "She salts her lectures with jokes"

1. 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
   - Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

Derived forms: salts, salted, salting

See also: brackish, brak [S.Africa], briny, saliferous, saline, saltish, sharp, tasty

Type of: chemical compound, compound, diplomacy, diplomatic negotiations, flavor [US], flavorer [US], flavoring [US], flavour [Brit, Cdn], flavourer [Brit, Cdn], flavouring [Brit, Cdn], gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, keep, preserve, seasoner, seasoning, spice, spice up, splash, splosh [informal], sprinkle, taste, taste perception, taste sensation

Encyclopedia: Salt, Sun and Time