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

I added a soupcon of salt.
Salt was sprinkled in the soup.
It is the ammonium salt of lactic acid.
In the crockery, it is mixed with salt water.
It is the salt of hydroxylamine and nitric acid.
What's the difference between the salt and the powder
The rock salt that is found in salt domes is mostly impermeable.
The Romans used lead salt pans to extract the salt from the brine.
It is not simply that the salt and sugar replenish those lost by the diarrhea.
Scientists at Sheffield Hallam University used seaweed granules to replace salt in bread and processed foods.