Salt
noun
A white substance found in sea water and in the ground, used especially to add flavor to food or to preserve it.
Please pass the salt.
Often appears as...
- sea salt
- table salt
noun
A chemical compound that results from the reaction of an acid with a base, a type of salt.
The salt formed by the reaction of hydrochloric acid with sodium hydroxide is sodium chloride.
Often appears as...
- sodium salt
- potassium salt
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
verb
To add salt to food.
She salted the meat to give it more flavor.
Often appears as...
- salt the soup
- salt the fries
verb
To sprinkle a surface with salt to melt ice or snow.
The city salts the roads during winter to prevent accidents.
Often appears as...
- salt the sidewalks
- salt the streets
verb
To add something to an account, evidence etc. to mislead people.
The account books had been salted with false entries.
Often appears as...
- salt the evidence
- salt the books
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Colloquial
adjective
Containing or tasting of salt.
The soup is very salt, you should add some water.
Often appears as...
- salt taste
- salt air
noun
Experienced sailor.
He was an old salt who had sailed the seven seas.
Often appears as...
- old salt
- sea salt
Usage tips
Approving
Idiomatic
noun
A white substance found in sea water and in the ground, used especially to add flavor to food or to preserve it.
Please pass the salt.
Often appears as...
- sea salt
- table salt
noun
A chemical compound that results from the reaction of an acid with a base, a type of salt.
The salt formed by the reaction of hydrochloric acid with sodium hydroxide is sodium chloride.
Often appears as...
- sodium salt
- potassium salt
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
verb
To add salt to food.
She salted the meat to give it more flavor.
Often appears as...
- salt the soup
- salt the fries
verb
To sprinkle a surface with salt to melt ice or snow.
The city salts the roads during winter to prevent accidents.
Often appears as...
- salt the sidewalks
- salt the streets
verb
To add something to an account, evidence etc. to mislead people.
The account books had been salted with false entries.
Often appears as...
- salt the evidence
- salt the books
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Colloquial
adjective
Containing or tasting of salt.
The soup is very salt, you should add some water.
Often appears as...
- salt taste
- salt air
noun
Experienced sailor.
He was an old salt who had sailed the seven seas.
Often appears as...
- old salt
- sea salt
Usage tips
Approving
Idiomatic
Definition 1 of 7
Pro Tip 1/2Culinary Staple
Refers to common table salt used to enhance food flavor; a fundamental kitchen ingredient.
A pinch of salt can bring out the sweetness in baked goods.
Pro Tip 2/2Preservation
Salt has been used historically to preserve food by inhibiting bacterial growth.
Cured meats are preserved with salt to extend their shelf life.
Pro Tip 1/2Culinary Staple
Refers to common table salt used to enhance food flavor; a fundamental kitchen ingredient.
A pinch of salt can bring out the sweetness in baked goods.
Pro Tip 2/2Preservation
Salt has been used historically to preserve food by inhibiting bacterial growth.
Cured meats are preserved with salt to extend their shelf life.
Pro Tip 1/2Culinary Staple
Refers to common table salt used to enhance food flavor; a fundamental kitchen ingredient.
A pinch of salt can bring out the sweetness in baked goods.
Pro Tip 2/2Preservation
Salt has been used historically to preserve food by inhibiting bacterial growth.
Cured meats are preserved with salt to extend their shelf life.
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How does a jellyfish...
Rinsing with vinegar will usually render undischarged nematocysts inactive. Seawater can also help remove residual nematocysts. But don't use fresh water because any change in salt balance alters the osmotic pressure outside of the cnidocyte and will trigger the nematocyst to fire.
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The science of static...
is what we recognize as that sudden spark. This process doesn't happen with just any objects. Otherwise you'd be getting zapped all the time. Conductors like metals and salt water tend to have loosely bound outer electrons, which can easily flow between molecules.
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The Egyptian Book of the...
the seat of emotion, memory, and intelligence. It's then stuffed with a salt called natron and wrapped in resin-soaked linen. In addition, the wrappings are woven with charms for protection and topped with a heart scarab amulet that will prove important later on.
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Why don't oil and water...
When we look at oil or salt in water, we focus on the forces between particles on a very, very, very small scale, the molecular level. To give you a sense of this scale, in one glass of water, there are more molecules than known stars in the universe.
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How To Levitate PIPE The...
The areas where the salt gathers are actually where the sound waves are canceling each other out, known as "nodes," and controlling those is the key to sonic levitation. A team of world-leading scientists are pushing that idea to its limits.
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Uncovering a radical...
billion people in the developing world who lack access to electricity another aspect that really excites me is how cheap these can be made these thin slang films are made by mixing two inexpensive readily abundant salts to
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Are food preservatives...
contribute to hyperactive behavior. But the results aren't conclusive. Otherwise, these acids seem to be perfectly safe. Another antimicrobial strategy is to add a lot of sugar, like in jam, or salt, like in salted meats.
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King Cobra vs. Saltwater...
fate is not on his side another pint-sized predator is on the lookout for food tube the saltwater crocodile is a legendary giant of these forests this species is the largest living reptile in the world
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Bilal Bomani: Plant...
Ninety-seven percent of the world's water is saltwater. How about we use that? Combine that with number three. Do not use arable land. Because crops are already growing on that land
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Eel Suffers Toxic Shock...
it's difficult to make sense of the sight a lake of concentrated salt water 15 meters deep at the bottom of the sea
Video examples
How does a jellyfish...
Rinsing with vinegar will usually render undischarged nematocysts inactive. Seawater can also help remove residual nematocysts. But don't use fresh water because any change in salt balance alters the osmotic pressure outside of the cnidocyte and will trigger the nematocyst to fire.
Video examples
The science of static...
is what we recognize as that sudden spark. This process doesn't happen with just any objects. Otherwise you'd be getting zapped all the time. Conductors like metals and salt water tend to have loosely bound outer electrons, which can easily flow between molecules.
Video examples
The Egyptian Book of the...
the seat of emotion, memory, and intelligence. It's then stuffed with a salt called natron and wrapped in resin-soaked linen. In addition, the wrappings are woven with charms for protection and topped with a heart scarab amulet that will prove important later on.
Video examples
Why don't oil and water...
When we look at oil or salt in water, we focus on the forces between particles on a very, very, very small scale, the molecular level. To give you a sense of this scale, in one glass of water, there are more molecules than known stars in the universe.
Video examples
How To Levitate PIPE The...
The areas where the salt gathers are actually where the sound waves are canceling each other out, known as "nodes," and controlling those is the key to sonic levitation. A team of world-leading scientists are pushing that idea to its limits.
Video examples
Uncovering a radical...
billion people in the developing world who lack access to electricity another aspect that really excites me is how cheap these can be made these thin slang films are made by mixing two inexpensive readily abundant salts to
Video examples
Are food preservatives...
contribute to hyperactive behavior. But the results aren't conclusive. Otherwise, these acids seem to be perfectly safe. Another antimicrobial strategy is to add a lot of sugar, like in jam, or salt, like in salted meats.
Video examples
King Cobra vs. Saltwater...
fate is not on his side another pint-sized predator is on the lookout for food tube the saltwater crocodile is a legendary giant of these forests this species is the largest living reptile in the world
Video examples
Bilal Bomani: Plant...
Ninety-seven percent of the world's water is saltwater. How about we use that? Combine that with number three. Do not use arable land. Because crops are already growing on that land
Video examples
Eel Suffers Toxic Shock...
it's difficult to make sense of the sight a lake of concentrated salt water 15 meters deep at the bottom of the sea
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Quote examples
Mark Kurlansky
American Journalist
There's a lot about the early history of salt that isn't known, including who first used it and when or how it was discovered that it preserved food. We were sort of handed, in history, this world where everyone knew about salt. And it's not clear exactly how that developed.
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Juliette Binoche
French Actress
In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There's salt if you don't have salt; you can knock at someone's door, like in any city. But you know, you can hear the others, and you want to sleep, you get annoyed.
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Larry Fitzgerald
American Athlete
My diet is always extremely important to me. I've taken a new approach to eating in terms of my blood type. I really don't eat much chicken, sugar, salts, or beef. Just eating clean and feeling so much better.
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Julia Stiles
American Actress
I love the sun and salt water, which is not good for your skin and therefore not good for your image. I'm terrible about protecting my skin as well.
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Theodore Roosevelt
American President
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
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Emily Ratajkowski
British Model
I cook a lot, so that really helps: You know how much salt and sugar and all of that kind of stuff you are putting in your body.
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Helen Baxendale
English Actress
Seriously though, most films worth their salt will have something to say about the world we live in. Even 'Avatar' claimed that!
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Adnan Sami
Pakistani Musician
I believe that sugar is just as important for our body as salt is, and other natural foods.
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Matt Smith
English Actor
Any actor worth his salt has a responsibility to reinvent himself from part to part.
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Jeff Rich
American Explorer
Business is the salt of life.
Quote examples
Mark Kurlansky
American Journalist
There's a lot about the early history of salt that isn't known, including who first used it and when or how it was discovered that it preserved food. We were sort of handed, in history, this world where everyone knew about salt. And it's not clear exactly how that developed.
Quote examples
Juliette Binoche
French Actress
In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There's salt if you don't have salt; you can knock at someone's door, like in any city. But you know, you can hear the others, and you want to sleep, you get annoyed.
Quote examples
Larry Fitzgerald
American Athlete
My diet is always extremely important to me. I've taken a new approach to eating in terms of my blood type. I really don't eat much chicken, sugar, salts, or beef. Just eating clean and feeling so much better.
Quote examples
Julia Stiles
American Actress
I love the sun and salt water, which is not good for your skin and therefore not good for your image. I'm terrible about protecting my skin as well.
Quote examples
Theodore Roosevelt
American President
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Quote examples
Emily Ratajkowski
British Model
I cook a lot, so that really helps: You know how much salt and sugar and all of that kind of stuff you are putting in your body.
Quote examples
Helen Baxendale
English Actress
Seriously though, most films worth their salt will have something to say about the world we live in. Even 'Avatar' claimed that!
Quote examples
Adnan Sami
Pakistani Musician
I believe that sugar is just as important for our body as salt is, and other natural foods.
Quote examples
Matt Smith
English Actor
Any actor worth his salt has a responsibility to reinvent himself from part to part.
Quote examples
Jeff Rich
American Explorer
Business is the salt of life.
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