salt

IPA: sˈɔɫt

A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
(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).
(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.
(obsolete) Piquancy; wit; sense.
(obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
(historical, in the plural) Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine.
(figurative) Skepticism and common sense.
(Internet slang) Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing.
(UK, historical) The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem.
One who joins a workplace for the purpose of unionizing it.
(obsolete) A bounding; a leaping; a prance.
A village in Staffordshire, England.
A surname.
(politics) Initialism of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.

(transitive) To add salt to.
(intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.
(nautical, of a ship) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks 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 metal 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 archaeological site.
(transitive) To add certain chemical elements to (a nuclear or conventional weapon) so that it generates more radiation.
(transitive) To sprinkle throughout.
(cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
To render a thing useless.
(military, transitive) To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.
(wiki) To lock a page title so it cannot be created.

Examples of "salt" in Sentences

And let me define that for you: any artist worth his/her salt is an aesthetic fascist.
III. iv.51 (459,7) salt and sullen rheum] -- _salt and_ sorry rheum] The old quarto has,
The term salt is an ancient word, occurring in various forms in earliest English and in related languages.
Well I do most of my own gunsmithing, because finding a gunsmith worth his salt is a difficult proposition.
Import of the term salt -- number of the salts (Thomson 2, 305) -- nomenclature -- ic changed into ate and ous into ite.
Put it into a pail having a close-fitting cover and pack in pounded ice and salt, -- _rock salt_, not the common kind, -- about three-fourths ice and one-forth salt.
In those days the economy was booming, for these people traded in salt from the flats of Sayula and, more importantly, they were situated right next to the third largest obsidian deposits in the world.