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Salt
Found in thesaurus: chemical compound, flavourer, flavorer, seasoning, gustatory perception, taste perception, season, flavour, splosh, spice, keep
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salt
v.
add salt, season with salt; preserve in salt; scatter salt; spice up, make lively; fraudulently place expensive minerals within a mine to make the mine appear valuable
n.
sodium chloride, common crystalline mineral, table salt; element that provides zest or liveliness; experienced sailor; element that makes an expression poignant or caustic
adj.
salty, having the flavor of salt; containing salt; preserved with salt; bitter, piquant, sharp
SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)
n.
series of talks between the United States and the Soviet Union for the purpose of limiting strategic nuclear arms (began in 1969)
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Salt
Common salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl), a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts; salt in its natural form as a crystalline mineral is known as rock salt or halite. Salt is present in vast quantities in seawater, where it is the main mineral constituent; the open ocean has about of solids per litre, a salinity of 3.5%. Salt is essential for animal life, and saltiness is one of the basic human tastes. The tissues of animals contain larger quantities of salt than do plant tissues; therefore the typical diets of nomads who subsist on their flocks and herds require little or no added salt, whereas cereal-based diets require supplementation. Salt is one of the oldest and most ubiquitous of food seasonings, and salting is an important method of food preservation.
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Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) were two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union—the Cold War superpowers—on the issue of armament control. The two rounds of talks and agreements were SALT I and SALT II.
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SALT
Noun
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
(synonym) Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
(hypernym) diplomacy, diplomatic negotiations
salt
Noun
1. a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
(hypernym) compound, chemical compound
(hyponym) acetate, ethanoate
2. white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
(synonym) table salt, common salt
(hypernym) flavorer, flavourer, flavoring, flavouring, seasoner, seasoning
3. the taste experience when salt is taken into the mouth
(synonym) saltiness, salinity
(hypernym) taste, taste sensation, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory perception
Verb
1. add salt to
(hypernym) season, flavor, flavour
(derivation) saltiness, salinity
(classification) cooking, cookery, preparation
2. sprinkle as if with salt; "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps"
(hypernym) sprinkle, splash, splosh
3. add zest or liveliness to; "She salts her lectures with jokes"
(hypernym) spice, spice up
4. preserve with salt; "people used to salt meats on ships"
(hypernym) preserve, keep
(derivation) saltiness, salinity
(classification) cooking, cookery, preparation
Adjective
1. containing or filled with salt; "salt water"
(antonym) fresh
(similar) brackish, briny
(see-also) tasteful
2. of speech that is painful or bitter; "salt scorn"- Shakespeare; "a salt apology"
(similar) sharp
3. one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water
(synonym) salty
(similar) tasteful
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Salt (der)
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SALT, SALT talks, strategic arms limitation talks, series of talks between the United States and the Soviet Union for the purpose of limiting strategic nuclear arms (began in 1969)
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SALT
SALT, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, series of talks between the United States and the Soviet Union for the purpose of limiting strategic nuclear arms (began in 1969)
