Noun | 1. | salt - a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal) |
2. | salt - white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food Synonyms: table salt, common salt | |
3. | SALT - 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 Synonyms: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks | |
4. | salt - the taste experience when salt is taken into the mouth | |
Verb | 1. | salt - add salt to |
2. | salt - sprinkle as if with salt; "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps" | |
3. | salt - add zest or liveliness to; "She salts her lectures with jokes" | |
4. | salt - preserve with salt; "people used to salt meats on ships" | |
Adj. | 1. | salt - containing or filled with salt; "salt water" Antonyms: fresh - not containing or composed of salt water; "fresh water" |
2. | salt - of speech that is painful or bitter; "salt scorn"- Shakespeare; "a salt apology" | |
3. | salt - one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water Synonyms: salty |
1. | SALT - Symbolic Assembly Language Trainer. Assembly-like language implemented in BASIC by Kevin Stock, now at Encore in France. | ||
2. | SALT - Sam And Lincoln Threaded language. A threaded extensible variant of BASIC. "SALT", S.D. Fenster et al, BYTE (Jun 1985) p.147. | ||
3. | salt - A tiny bit of near-random data inserted where too much regularity would be undesirable; a data frob (sense 1). For example, the Unix crypt(3) manual page mentions that "the salt string is used to perturb the DES algorithm in one of 4096 different ways." |