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noun sɒltsɔːltsɔlt 1mass noun A white crystalline substance which gives seawater its characteristic taste and is used for seasoning or preserving food. Alternative name: sodium chloride; chemical formula: NaCl Example sentencesExamples - Lightly whisk the eggs in a large bowl and season with salt, pepper and herbs.
- Lay the marinated turkey strips on the grill and season with salt and pepper to taste.
- When preparing foods for your baby you should also avoid adding additional flavours such as salt and sugar as babies can't cope with excess salt in food or sugar and do not need it.
- Meanwhile, blend the remaining ingredients in a food processor until combined, then season with salt to taste.
- As the class drew to a close we talked about nutrition and how some folks made it a choice to eat a healthier diet with less fat, less sugar, less salt and less fast food.
- Dress up a platter of fresh vegetables with a shallow dish of extra-virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar seasoned with salt and pepper.
- Once the cheese has melted, add lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste.
- Correct seasoning with salt, pepper and maybe a pinch of sugar.
- Finely chop tomatoes and mix in bowl with lobster and egg whites and season with salt and pepper.
- When just tender, mix in all the rest of the ingredients with salt to taste.
- Season the carbonara with several turns of freshly ground black pepper and taste for salt.
- Place the flour, oatmeal and a pinch of salt in a food processor with the butter.
- For the pastry, first sift both the flours and half a teaspoon of salt in a food processor.
- Pour in the cream and taste for seasoning, adding salt and pepper as necessary.
- In pure form, the way we mostly see it, salt is white and crystalline.
- Add the braised chicken and season to taste with salt and pepper sauce.
- Add white soy sauce and milk, season with salt and pepper to taste and bring to a simmer.
- In these products, salt seasons the food but is not necessary to ensure its safety.
- Taste and adjust the seasoning with salt, pepper and either lemon juice or wine vinegar.
- Place the flour, Parmesan, butter and a pinch of salt in a food processor and blend briefly.
Synonyms sodium chloride table salt, sea salt, marine salt, rock salt - 1.1literary Something which adds freshness or piquancy.
he described danger as the salt of pleasure Synonyms zest, spice, spiciness, sharpness, raciness, saltiness flavour, piquancy, pungency, tang, bite, edge liveliness, vigour, vitality, spirit, colour, sparkle informal zing, zip, punch, pizzazz
2Chemistry
Any chemical compound formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, with all or part of the hydrogen of the acid replaced by a metal or other cation. Example sentencesExamples - Amides are hydrolysed to ammonium salts with catalysis by acids or alkalis.
- Sulfates are salts or esters of sulfuric acid, H 2 SO 4.
- Samples were pre-incubated with various concentrations of chloride salts of the monovalent cations and then assayed using the standard procedure.
- In some such compounds, the hydrogen atom in the carboxyl group is neutralized by reaction with a base, to form the metal salt of the fatty acid.
- Many common metal hydroxides (with the exceptions of the salts of the alkali metals and some of the alkaline earth metals) are insoluble in water.
3usually old saltinformal An experienced sailor. he was one of many old salts who lined up to volunteer Example sentencesExamples - I guess that brings us back to the beginning - that there is no easy route or short answer to bridge the generation gap between our sharp young Sailors and old salts like me.
- If you're an old salt yourself, or enjoy the carousing tales of the mariners, then you will enjoy the book and perhaps even have met some of the characters.
- I used to jump off the boat to release the pots, but an old salt gave me a tip.
- I looked out across Poole Harbour, searching for the dolphin as directed by the local old salt.
- The jewel of the crew, known as Redman for obvious reasons, was an old salt with Navy SEAL experience, and had coffee and a ‘good morning ‘brewing at 5 a.m. daily.’
Synonyms sailor, seafarer, seafaring man, mariner, boatman, hand, crew member, rating seaman, sailor, seafarer, seafaring man, mariner, boatman, hand, crew member, rating
adjective sɒltsɔːltsɔlt 1attributive Impregnated with, treated with, or tasting of salt. Example sentencesExamples - Mediaeval monks were aware of the benefits of salt mud and concentrated sea water and used them to treat rheumatism, dropsy and obesity.
- During the wintertime, sponge off salt stains with clear water.
- They were in a cluster of warehouses, and the smell of salt air told him the docks were nearby.
- We had Rice and Beans with salt beef in it, barbecued chicken, and macaroni and cheese… excellent!
- She was constantly exposed to salt water and salt spray and when at sea she was drenched more often than she was dry.
- Fish born in the river swim downstream to the salt waters of the North Pacific.
- North past County Line and the smells are heavy salt air and sometimes a little blowing dirt.
- Enjoy the warmth from your suite's fireplace, open your balcony doors to the salt air, and scan the neighboring red cedars for bald eagles.
- As she stepped out into the air, the salt air hit her and she inhaled deeply in its essence.
- Buenos Aires on the River Plate became a major Atlantic port, outlet for Peru's silver and for its own hides and salt beef.
- I could smell the salt air as it whipped through my hair and my chiton.
- Pamela waited, breathing in the salt air, gazing up at the brilliance above.
- All iron swords, mail axes and things would be in sealed and greased barrels below deck to try to stop them from rusting in the salt air.
- She closed her eyes, smelling the salt sea air, feeling the wind in her hair; William watched her and sighed.
- She smelled the salt air and glanced along the lush hills of the glorious Emerald Isles.
- It is also treated with inorganic salt solutions which slow down the combustion.
- Pellerin says that while some salt dust is always floating in the mine's air, the salt air is dry, so it doesn't corrode equipment any faster than normal.
- My doctor has ordered me to take the salt air at Brighton for a few days.
- Whether you're sniffing the olive trees ashore or the salt spray on the water, the very air reeks of history.
- He took in the cooling salt air and paused to listen to a gull's cry past a hedge of trees.
Synonyms salty, salted, saline, briny, brackish 2attributive (of a plant) growing on the coast or in salt marshes. the region is rich in salt plant communities and reed beds Example sentencesExamples - In other places, especially where the terrain is slightly elevated or the bedrock was exposed, a salt shrub and grass community is found.
- There were about thirty tunnels in the mound complex, some as deep as three feet underground and snaking among the tough roots of the salt plants.
- In looking for ways to get rid of the salt hay, or at the very least control its further spread, the CHRA discovered a potential market for it.
- The farmer ripped and mounded by tractor through the patchy salt grasses, then brought lots of spoilt bales of straw down to be rolled out over the really squidgey bit.
verb sɒltsɔːltsɔlt [with object]1usually as adjective saltedSeason or preserve with salt. cook the carrots in boiling salted water Example sentencesExamples - These boats were loaded with all kinds of goods, from eggs to veggies and, of course, salted bacon and hams.
- In the past, we ate far more salted and preserved foods; today, with the advent of fridges, we eat more fresh food.
- The standard accompaniment to salted beef or pork was either mustard or a similar condiment made from the seeds of the rocket plant, Eruca sativa.
- A quarter-cup of roasted and salted sunflower seeds contains 200 calories, more than 200 mg of salt and 17 g total fat.
- Meanwhile, stir-fry garlic until it smells fragrant, add in salted soya beans, stir well.
- Melt together 70g of salted butter and 50g honey in a small saucepan, and pour this into your dough.
- On bronze and copper platters were meats of every kind - honey-roast chicken, minted lamb, rabbit stew in black pots, salted pork, sliced ham and even a suckling pig.
- The plain, salted pretzels weren't ready, but ones stuffed with either cheese or apple cinnamon were available.
- When you go to the cinema, do you have sweet or salted popcorn?
- I was about to bake them with just a little sugar, when I saw a little box of salted butter caramels on the counter, a souvenir from Brittany, and thought I would use a few to sweeten the fruit instead.
- Oysters are most often served in the shell on a bed of crushed ice - although some purists argue that this dulls their flavor - with thin slices of rye bread, salted butter, and lemon juice.
- Nothing beats a well salted slice of cucumber on a hot day.
- Sausage is from the Latin salsus (salted): the Romans made sausages of salted meat to eat during the winter months.
- Properly dried and salted codfish would keep for long periods, an important consideration before refrigeration.
- She wrapped one of the loaves of bread she had baked that morning in some brown paper, along with a little salted meat.
- Stay away from candied or heavily salted nuts, and opt for raw nuts such as those by Planters.
- Their menu varies from the noodle section to the usual rice dishes, offering Laksa Singapore to salted fish and fried rice.
- We met some real Chicago natives and they showed us their techniques for eating salted peanuts whole in the shell.
- I was given a packet of salted almonds on the airplane.
- I doubled the quantity of garlic, added about a teaspoon of hot pepper flakes, and topped the dish with some ground dry-roasted salted peanuts.
- 1.1 Make (something) piquant or more interesting.
there was good talk to salt the occasion Example sentencesExamples - The book is salted with introspective passages that document the author's increasingly obsessive antiwar bias.
- The speech was liberally salted with the standard Lathamite insults from Werriwa College of Invective.
- His work is salted with slogans and phrases in capital letters.
- But it's richly salted with fascinating cultural lore, and an engaging read whether you're a carrot-top or not.
- I'm not sure whether satire shouldn't get its own category; but then, most great political works are salted with satire.
2Sprinkle (a road or path) with salt in order to melt snow or ice. local authorities worked to improve travel conditions by gritting and salting roads Example sentencesExamples - There was no snow falling, there was none on the ground, and there was only a little bit of ice on the roads that hadn't been salted yet.
- We drove out over the ice-rink of a lane from the house and onto the main road, which had been salted and was clear apart from a thin layer of sludge and the occasional patch of ice.
- Teams from May Gurney were out again salting major roads at about 4am today and during the morning were out clearing town centre footways and salting secondary roads.
- The reason we gritted yesterday afternoon is that it is better to salt the roads before the snow falls.
- The snow was up to the tires and the salt truck had not come by to salt the roads.
- The recent frosty spell led to a deterioration of the surface of some routes after Kildare County Council staff salted them.
- However, these stretches of road are thoroughly salted to clear the snow and make them safe for road users.
- The city authorities had to call for help from the truck owners to give them a hand in pouring sand and salting the frozen and slippery avenues of Tehran.
- In that case the context was a very different one, namely the failure of an authority to salt or grit the road when there had been a weather forecast of freezing conditions.
- Pembrokeshire County Council had 14 gritting lorries on continuous patrol to salt the roads.
- Over the course of the week Local Authorities worked around the clock to improve travel conditions by gritting and salting roads in urban areas.
- The city seems to wait a week to see if the ice will melt before salting the roads.
- We salt the roads to prevent ice and snow from sticking to road surface.
- But, after the Hopgrove roundabout, the roads have all been wet as a result of being salted.
3informal Fraudulently make (a mine) appear to be a paying one by placing rich ore into it. I shall want to see some evidence that there really is a seam—no salting it, no faking Example sentencesExamples - Phillip Arnold and John Slack salted a mine under claim to Stanton in Wyoming with uncut diamonds from South Africa.
4as adjective salted(of a horse) having developed a resistance to disease by surviving it. Example sentencesExamples - To determine this I inoculated a "salted" horse, which had also had repeated large injections of virulent blood, with 50 c.c. of fresh blood. ...
- It is what is termed in the South African colonies a "salted horse," or one which has shown itself impervious to the attacks of the tsetse fly.
Phrases rub salt into the (or someone's) wound Make a painful experience even more painful for someone. Boro rubbed salt into the wound by scoring with their first attempt Example sentencesExamples - Bereavement always enhances associational sensitivity and by doing so rubs salt into the wound.
- Maidenhead rubbed salt into the wound, leap-frogging Carshalton after winning their third consecutive game.
- The programme is terminated after six months and to rub salt into the wound these interns are then not considered when the positions are available.
- Hughes rubbed salt into the wound for North End by scoring the resulting penalty.
- To rub salt into the wound the referee blew the final whistle as Ilkley kicked-off.
- Unions today accused cash-strapped Southampton hospital bosses of rubbing salt into the wound after advertising for a new personnel director - with a salary of up to £95,000.
- He's done it a thousand times and you come off second best, looking for somewhere to crawl to while he rubs salt into the wound and others in the audience roll about laughing at your discomfort.
- Just to rub salt into the wound, the Judge also ordered that the mother can only visit the children if supervised by a court appointed representative, and that the cost of this would be over $1, 000 a day to the mother.
- The shot went wide and Michael O'Leary rubbed salt into the wound by doubling his sides advantage almost immediately.
- Flutey's kicking nightmare continued as he fluffed the conversion and Hodgson slotted another three points on the stroke of half-time to rub salt into the wound.
A person or group of people of great kindness, reliability, or honesty. your old man was the salt of the earth Example sentencesExamples - It was a fantastic night, the staff were so nice and the other punters were the salt of the earth.
- I grew up in a small Australian country town and I have since then seen quite a bit of country people both in Australia and the USA and I have no hesitation in saying that to my mind country people are the salt of the earth.
- Life in Salford was rough, though the people were marvellous, the salt of the earth.
- I have nothing but respect for lower league fans - they are the salt of the earth as far as football support is concerned.
- He was the salt of the earth, a man who was very obliging and very quiet.
- There is always more to learn, and like vegetable growers, flower growers are the salt of the earth, always willing to share what they know.
- Perennially cheerful, Vera is the salt of the earth.
- John was the salt of the earth and a very sociable animal, well known in the Old Oak and Mill Tavern.
- They were good lads, the salt of the earth, yet I can't remember any of their names.
- He is an exceptional young man - the salt of the earth - and at his age he is already showing a lot of leadership.
Be of lower social standing or worth. paperback publishers used to be considered people who sat below the salt Example sentencesExamples - The "salt" was passed from here up the table, and if you sat below the salt you were not only "not worth your salt" but you didn't get any.
- At dinner, important people were seated ‘above the salt’, servants and low ranking individuals sat ‘below the salt’.
take something with a pinch (or grain) of salt Regard something as exaggerated; believe only part of something. I take anything he says with a large pinch of salt Example sentencesExamples - Not that I know what the proper remedy is, other than to teach students to be more aware and science-literate by the time they finish high school, so can they take simple headlines with a grain of salt.
- That is the thing about overall stats like this, you have to take them with a grain of salt.
- I took the knocking with a pinch of salt even though in many cases the awful truth, which can hurt, is revealed for all the world to see.
- For the moment I am taking this report with a grain of salt, since previous sightings of Iranian infiltrators have often been proven inaccurate later on.
- Many personnel believe that no matter what they have to say, it will be taken with a grain of salt.
- I'm on the other side of the fence, and I've been critical of some of you lately, so I'll understand if you take my advice with a grain of salt.
- Since I had no recourse to take this route, I took the stories with a pinch of salt and never checked them out.
- Labour could have done this when they were office. We should take their comments with a pinch of salt.
- The next time someone says one bullet is vastly superior to another in regards to wind deflection, take their advice with a grain of salt and check for yourself.
- An AIB spokesman rejected the claim it was ripping off customers and said it took the report with a pinch of salt as it did not believe true like-for-like comparisons were made.
Synonyms disbelieve, not believe, not credit, give no credence to, discredit, discount, doubt, distrust, mistrust, be suspicious of, have no confidence in, have no faith in, be incredulous of, be unconvinced about with reservations, with misgivings, with a grain of salt, sceptically, cynically, mistrustfully, doubtfully, doubtingly, suspiciously, disbelievingly, questioningly, quizzically, incredulously
Good or competent at the job or profession specified. any astrologer worth her salt would have predicted this Example sentencesExamples - The argument that their active lives, and so income, are short, is nonsense, for any sportsperson worth their salt can carve a very good living from coaching, promotional and communications work.
- But, as any proselytiser of right-wing economics worth their salt will tell you, free trade agreements don't work, either ideologically or practically.
- Forget a lazy few hours of relaxing and leafing your way leisurely through the papers - any parent worth their salt will be filling every second of their family life with enriching, life-enhancing activities.
- Any childminder worth their salt should provide an excellent environment for children of any age.
- Like most musicians worth their salt, Phelps enjoys recording but his true love can be found playing live.
- They further argue that no professional worth his salt would want to do other extra-curricular activity that somewhat demean him or her in some foreign land if he or she has the option of comfortably making ends meet at home.
- Let's see if you are really worth your salt as a politician.
- Any nutritionist worth their salt would point you in the direction of the meal with high fiber, protein, and natural ingredients.
- Personal trainers that are worth their salt, can spot poor alignment, correct it and make sure that you are doing the exercise properly.
- Any scientist worth their salt will point out many ways in which their theories can be proven wrong.
Capture (with reference to humorous instructions given to children for catching a bird). Example sentencesExamples - To understand the significance of due process of law is to try to put salt on the tail of "principles" and to avoid getting enmeshed in "details".
- The band uses effects to sprinkle salt on the tail of a sonic event and grab on to it for emphasis or further contemplation.
Phrasal Verbs Secretly store or put by something, especially money. they salted the money away in numbered bank accounts around the world Example sentencesExamples - In many countries resources and funds have been salted away by corrupt governments with the result that vital medical and educational programmes are unable to cope or have ceased functioning altogether.
- He said she was rather tight-fisted with hers preferring to salt it away in a savings account and he felt lumbered with paying for most of the household bills as well as the fun things in life like holidays and meals out.
- The real truth about the surplus - and what the Government is not telling the people - is that Michael Cullen has no idea where it came from and he is salting it away for a rainy day.
- He told the court: ‘He has carefully salted this money away in safe places, in safe investments and property.’
- Maggie, tell me about more of the iceberg, because it's easy to imagine that the money would be salted away in gold bouillon or somewhere exotic, piles of cash sitting in some vault somewhere.
- As I have said I am satisfied it is salted away, therefore in his case, I make a Confiscation Order of the lesser of the two sums, that is the benefit figure, £139, 260 with a three year term imprisonment in default.
- They weren't expecting it after all so they may as well pretend they're not getting it and salt it away for their child's future.
Synonyms save, put aside, put away, put by, lay by, set aside, lay aside, put to one side, reserve, keep in reserve, deposit, keep, store, stockpile, hoard, stow away, cache
1Cause soap to separate from lye by adding salt. Example sentencesExamples - After adding stronger lye, the mixture is boiled until a sample becomes firm on cooling; the soap is then "salted out", i. e., common salt or concentrated brine is added, in which the soap is insoluble.
- 1.1Cause an organic compound to separate from an aqueous solution by adding an electrolyte.
the potassium carbonate salts out the otherwise water-soluble nitrile as a separate upper layer Example sentencesExamples - Determinations carried out on some dileucine hydrochloride which had been salted out with NaCl showed that the NaCl in the preparation was there as a result of adhering mother liquor and therefore not in chemical combination.
- Polymers such as poly(ethylene oxide) or poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) that are salted out by electrolytes usually show an inverse temperature solubility.
Origin Old English sealt (noun), sealtan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zout and German Salz (nouns), from an Indo-European root shared by Latin sal, Greek hals 'salt'. The root of salt is Latin sal, from which words such as salad, salami (mid 20th century), saline (Late Middle English), and sauce derive. A person who is the salt of the earth is kind, reliable, and honest. The phrase comes from St Matthew's Gospel: ‘Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?’ The expression sit below the salt, ‘to be of lower social standing’, goes back to the days when formal dinners were more common and when a person's rank determined where they sat at the table. Long dining tables running the length of the room were the norm, and those of the highest rank sat at the top end of the table, with the others arranged in descending order of status along the remaining length. The salt cellar was usually placed halfway down, and so anyone sitting below it knew they were socially inferior. Salt cellar itself has nothing to do with dark underground storage places. The second element was originally saler, which meant ‘salt box’ on its own. It came through Old French from Latin salarium, which also gave us salary—a salarium was originally a Roman soldier's allowance of money to buy salt. As early as the 15th century people did not fully understand saler and added salt in front of it. Finally it became a complete mystery, and they substituted the familiar cellar (see cell). Before the invention of the refrigerator food was salted, or treated with salt, to preserve it. This is the idea behind salting away money for future use, an expression that dates from the 1840s.
Rhymes assault, Balt, exalt, fault, halt, malt, smalt, vault abbreviationsɔːltsɒltsɔlt Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
nounsôltsɔlt 1A white crystalline substance which gives seawater its characteristic taste and is used for seasoning or preserving food. Alternative name: sodium chloride; chemical formula: NaCl. See sea salt Example sentencesExamples - As the class drew to a close we talked about nutrition and how some folks made it a choice to eat a healthier diet with less fat, less sugar, less salt and less fast food.
- When just tender, mix in all the rest of the ingredients with salt to taste.
- Correct seasoning with salt, pepper and maybe a pinch of sugar.
- For the pastry, first sift both the flours and half a teaspoon of salt in a food processor.
- When preparing foods for your baby you should also avoid adding additional flavours such as salt and sugar as babies can't cope with excess salt in food or sugar and do not need it.
- Add the braised chicken and season to taste with salt and pepper sauce.
- Lay the marinated turkey strips on the grill and season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Dress up a platter of fresh vegetables with a shallow dish of extra-virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar seasoned with salt and pepper.
- In pure form, the way we mostly see it, salt is white and crystalline.
- Season the carbonara with several turns of freshly ground black pepper and taste for salt.
- Pour in the cream and taste for seasoning, adding salt and pepper as necessary.
- In these products, salt seasons the food but is not necessary to ensure its safety.
- Once the cheese has melted, add lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste.
- Finely chop tomatoes and mix in bowl with lobster and egg whites and season with salt and pepper.
- Place the flour, Parmesan, butter and a pinch of salt in a food processor and blend briefly.
- Add white soy sauce and milk, season with salt and pepper to taste and bring to a simmer.
- Taste and adjust the seasoning with salt, pepper and either lemon juice or wine vinegar.
- Lightly whisk the eggs in a large bowl and season with salt, pepper and herbs.
- Meanwhile, blend the remaining ingredients in a food processor until combined, then season with salt to taste.
- Place the flour, oatmeal and a pinch of salt in a food processor with the butter.
- 1.1literary Something which adds freshness or piquancy.
he described danger as the salt of pleasure Synonyms zest, spice, spiciness, sharpness, raciness, saltiness - 1.2 A saltcellar.
2Chemistry
Any chemical compound formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, with all or part of the hydrogen of the acid replaced by a metal or other cation. Example sentencesExamples - Many common metal hydroxides (with the exceptions of the salts of the alkali metals and some of the alkaline earth metals) are insoluble in water.
- In some such compounds, the hydrogen atom in the carboxyl group is neutralized by reaction with a base, to form the metal salt of the fatty acid.
- Amides are hydrolysed to ammonium salts with catalysis by acids or alkalis.
- Sulfates are salts or esters of sulfuric acid, H 2 SO 4.
- Samples were pre-incubated with various concentrations of chloride salts of the monovalent cations and then assayed using the standard procedure.
3usually old saltinformal An experienced sailor. Example sentencesExamples - I guess that brings us back to the beginning - that there is no easy route or short answer to bridge the generation gap between our sharp young Sailors and old salts like me.
- If you're an old salt yourself, or enjoy the carousing tales of the mariners, then you will enjoy the book and perhaps even have met some of the characters.
- The jewel of the crew, known as Redman for obvious reasons, was an old salt with Navy SEAL experience, and had coffee and a ‘good morning ‘brewing at 5 a.m. daily.’
- I looked out across Poole Harbour, searching for the dolphin as directed by the local old salt.
- I used to jump off the boat to release the pots, but an old salt gave me a tip.
Synonyms sailor, seafarer, seafaring man, mariner, boatman, hand, crew member, rating seaman, sailor, seafarer, seafaring man, mariner, boatman, hand, crew member, rating
adjectivesôltsɔlt 1Impregnated with, treated with, or tasting of salt. Example sentencesExamples - Enjoy the warmth from your suite's fireplace, open your balcony doors to the salt air, and scan the neighboring red cedars for bald eagles.
- North past County Line and the smells are heavy salt air and sometimes a little blowing dirt.
- It is also treated with inorganic salt solutions which slow down the combustion.
- She smelled the salt air and glanced along the lush hills of the glorious Emerald Isles.
- She was constantly exposed to salt water and salt spray and when at sea she was drenched more often than she was dry.
- Pamela waited, breathing in the salt air, gazing up at the brilliance above.
- Pellerin says that while some salt dust is always floating in the mine's air, the salt air is dry, so it doesn't corrode equipment any faster than normal.
- During the wintertime, sponge off salt stains with clear water.
- My doctor has ordered me to take the salt air at Brighton for a few days.
- She closed her eyes, smelling the salt sea air, feeling the wind in her hair; William watched her and sighed.
- Mediaeval monks were aware of the benefits of salt mud and concentrated sea water and used them to treat rheumatism, dropsy and obesity.
- Buenos Aires on the River Plate became a major Atlantic port, outlet for Peru's silver and for its own hides and salt beef.
- All iron swords, mail axes and things would be in sealed and greased barrels below deck to try to stop them from rusting in the salt air.
- I could smell the salt air as it whipped through my hair and my chiton.
- Fish born in the river swim downstream to the salt waters of the North Pacific.
- He took in the cooling salt air and paused to listen to a gull's cry past a hedge of trees.
- As she stepped out into the air, the salt air hit her and she inhaled deeply in its essence.
- We had Rice and Beans with salt beef in it, barbecued chicken, and macaroni and cheese… excellent!
- Whether you're sniffing the olive trees ashore or the salt spray on the water, the very air reeks of history.
- They were in a cluster of warehouses, and the smell of salt air told him the docks were nearby.
Synonyms salty, salted, saline, briny, brackish 2(of a plant) growing on the coast or in salt marshes. Example sentencesExamples - In other places, especially where the terrain is slightly elevated or the bedrock was exposed, a salt shrub and grass community is found.
- There were about thirty tunnels in the mound complex, some as deep as three feet underground and snaking among the tough roots of the salt plants.
- The farmer ripped and mounded by tractor through the patchy salt grasses, then brought lots of spoilt bales of straw down to be rolled out over the really squidgey bit.
- In looking for ways to get rid of the salt hay, or at the very least control its further spread, the CHRA discovered a potential market for it.
verbsôltsɔlt [with object]1usually as adjective saltedSeason or preserve with salt. cook the carrots in boiling salted water Example sentencesExamples - Melt together 70g of salted butter and 50g honey in a small saucepan, and pour this into your dough.
- I doubled the quantity of garlic, added about a teaspoon of hot pepper flakes, and topped the dish with some ground dry-roasted salted peanuts.
- In the past, we ate far more salted and preserved foods; today, with the advent of fridges, we eat more fresh food.
- The standard accompaniment to salted beef or pork was either mustard or a similar condiment made from the seeds of the rocket plant, Eruca sativa.
- We met some real Chicago natives and they showed us their techniques for eating salted peanuts whole in the shell.
- The plain, salted pretzels weren't ready, but ones stuffed with either cheese or apple cinnamon were available.
- I was given a packet of salted almonds on the airplane.
- Stay away from candied or heavily salted nuts, and opt for raw nuts such as those by Planters.
- Properly dried and salted codfish would keep for long periods, an important consideration before refrigeration.
- On bronze and copper platters were meats of every kind - honey-roast chicken, minted lamb, rabbit stew in black pots, salted pork, sliced ham and even a suckling pig.
- Sausage is from the Latin salsus (salted): the Romans made sausages of salted meat to eat during the winter months.
- A quarter-cup of roasted and salted sunflower seeds contains 200 calories, more than 200 mg of salt and 17 g total fat.
- When you go to the cinema, do you have sweet or salted popcorn?
- Oysters are most often served in the shell on a bed of crushed ice - although some purists argue that this dulls their flavor - with thin slices of rye bread, salted butter, and lemon juice.
- Their menu varies from the noodle section to the usual rice dishes, offering Laksa Singapore to salted fish and fried rice.
- Nothing beats a well salted slice of cucumber on a hot day.
- These boats were loaded with all kinds of goods, from eggs to veggies and, of course, salted bacon and hams.
- Meanwhile, stir-fry garlic until it smells fragrant, add in salted soya beans, stir well.
- I was about to bake them with just a little sugar, when I saw a little box of salted butter caramels on the counter, a souvenir from Brittany, and thought I would use a few to sweeten the fruit instead.
- She wrapped one of the loaves of bread she had baked that morning in some brown paper, along with a little salted meat.
- 1.1 Make (something) piquant or more interesting.
there was good talk to salt the occasion Example sentencesExamples - The speech was liberally salted with the standard Lathamite insults from Werriwa College of Invective.
- His work is salted with slogans and phrases in capital letters.
- I'm not sure whether satire shouldn't get its own category; but then, most great political works are salted with satire.
- But it's richly salted with fascinating cultural lore, and an engaging read whether you're a carrot-top or not.
- The book is salted with introspective passages that document the author's increasingly obsessive antiwar bias.
2Sprinkle (a road or path) with salt in order to melt snow or ice. Example sentencesExamples - The snow was up to the tires and the salt truck had not come by to salt the roads.
- The recent frosty spell led to a deterioration of the surface of some routes after Kildare County Council staff salted them.
- Teams from May Gurney were out again salting major roads at about 4am today and during the morning were out clearing town centre footways and salting secondary roads.
- However, these stretches of road are thoroughly salted to clear the snow and make them safe for road users.
- Over the course of the week Local Authorities worked around the clock to improve travel conditions by gritting and salting roads in urban areas.
- There was no snow falling, there was none on the ground, and there was only a little bit of ice on the roads that hadn't been salted yet.
- We salt the roads to prevent ice and snow from sticking to road surface.
- In that case the context was a very different one, namely the failure of an authority to salt or grit the road when there had been a weather forecast of freezing conditions.
- Pembrokeshire County Council had 14 gritting lorries on continuous patrol to salt the roads.
- But, after the Hopgrove roundabout, the roads have all been wet as a result of being salted.
- The reason we gritted yesterday afternoon is that it is better to salt the roads before the snow falls.
- We drove out over the ice-rink of a lane from the house and onto the main road, which had been salted and was clear apart from a thin layer of sludge and the occasional patch of ice.
- The city seems to wait a week to see if the ice will melt before salting the roads.
- The city authorities had to call for help from the truck owners to give them a hand in pouring sand and salting the frozen and slippery avenues of Tehran.
3informal Fraudulently make (a mine) appear to be a paying one by placing rich ore into it. Example sentencesExamples - Phillip Arnold and John Slack salted a mine under claim to Stanton in Wyoming with uncut diamonds from South Africa.
4as adjective salted(of a horse) having developed a resistance to disease by surviving it. Example sentencesExamples - It is what is termed in the South African colonies a "salted horse," or one which has shown itself impervious to the attacks of the tsetse fly.
- To determine this I inoculated a "salted" horse, which had also had repeated large injections of virulent blood, with 50 c.c. of fresh blood. ...
Phrases rub salt into the (or someone's) wound Make a painful experience even more painful for someone. Example sentencesExamples - Maidenhead rubbed salt into the wound, leap-frogging Carshalton after winning their third consecutive game.
- The shot went wide and Michael O'Leary rubbed salt into the wound by doubling his sides advantage almost immediately.
- He's done it a thousand times and you come off second best, looking for somewhere to crawl to while he rubs salt into the wound and others in the audience roll about laughing at your discomfort.
- Just to rub salt into the wound, the Judge also ordered that the mother can only visit the children if supervised by a court appointed representative, and that the cost of this would be over $1, 000 a day to the mother.
- Unions today accused cash-strapped Southampton hospital bosses of rubbing salt into the wound after advertising for a new personnel director - with a salary of up to £95,000.
- Bereavement always enhances associational sensitivity and by doing so rubs salt into the wound.
- Hughes rubbed salt into the wound for North End by scoring the resulting penalty.
- The programme is terminated after six months and to rub salt into the wound these interns are then not considered when the positions are available.
- To rub salt into the wound the referee blew the final whistle as Ilkley kicked-off.
- Flutey's kicking nightmare continued as he fluffed the conversion and Hodgson slotted another three points on the stroke of half-time to rub salt into the wound.
A person or group of people of great kindness, reliability, or honesty. Example sentencesExamples - I have nothing but respect for lower league fans - they are the salt of the earth as far as football support is concerned.
- He was the salt of the earth, a man who was very obliging and very quiet.
- There is always more to learn, and like vegetable growers, flower growers are the salt of the earth, always willing to share what they know.
- They were good lads, the salt of the earth, yet I can't remember any of their names.
- Life in Salford was rough, though the people were marvellous, the salt of the earth.
- John was the salt of the earth and a very sociable animal, well known in the Old Oak and Mill Tavern.
- He is an exceptional young man - the salt of the earth - and at his age he is already showing a lot of leadership.
- Perennially cheerful, Vera is the salt of the earth.
- It was a fantastic night, the staff were so nice and the other punters were the salt of the earth.
- I grew up in a small Australian country town and I have since then seen quite a bit of country people both in Australia and the USA and I have no hesitation in saying that to my mind country people are the salt of the earth.
Be of lower social standing or worth. Example sentencesExamples - The "salt" was passed from here up the table, and if you sat below the salt you were not only "not worth your salt" but you didn't get any.
- At dinner, important people were seated ‘above the salt’, servants and low ranking individuals sat ‘below the salt’.
Good or competent at the job or profession specified. any astrologer worth her salt would have predicted this Example sentencesExamples - Forget a lazy few hours of relaxing and leafing your way leisurely through the papers - any parent worth their salt will be filling every second of their family life with enriching, life-enhancing activities.
- But, as any proselytiser of right-wing economics worth their salt will tell you, free trade agreements don't work, either ideologically or practically.
- Any nutritionist worth their salt would point you in the direction of the meal with high fiber, protein, and natural ingredients.
- Personal trainers that are worth their salt, can spot poor alignment, correct it and make sure that you are doing the exercise properly.
- Let's see if you are really worth your salt as a politician.
- Any scientist worth their salt will point out many ways in which their theories can be proven wrong.
- Any childminder worth their salt should provide an excellent environment for children of any age.
- They further argue that no professional worth his salt would want to do other extra-curricular activity that somewhat demean him or her in some foreign land if he or she has the option of comfortably making ends meet at home.
- The argument that their active lives, and so income, are short, is nonsense, for any sportsperson worth their salt can carve a very good living from coaching, promotional and communications work.
- Like most musicians worth their salt, Phelps enjoys recording but his true love can be found playing live.
take something with a grain (or pinch) of salt Regard something as exaggerated; believe only part of something. take a stock tip with a grain of salt Example sentencesExamples - The next time someone says one bullet is vastly superior to another in regards to wind deflection, take their advice with a grain of salt and check for yourself.
- Since I had no recourse to take this route, I took the stories with a pinch of salt and never checked them out.
- That is the thing about overall stats like this, you have to take them with a grain of salt.
- Many personnel believe that no matter what they have to say, it will be taken with a grain of salt.
- I took the knocking with a pinch of salt even though in many cases the awful truth, which can hurt, is revealed for all the world to see.
- I'm on the other side of the fence, and I've been critical of some of you lately, so I'll understand if you take my advice with a grain of salt.
- For the moment I am taking this report with a grain of salt, since previous sightings of Iranian infiltrators have often been proven inaccurate later on.
- Labour could have done this when they were office. We should take their comments with a pinch of salt.
- An AIB spokesman rejected the claim it was ripping off customers and said it took the report with a pinch of salt as it did not believe true like-for-like comparisons were made.
- Not that I know what the proper remedy is, other than to teach students to be more aware and science-literate by the time they finish high school, so can they take simple headlines with a grain of salt.
Synonyms disbelieve, not believe, not credit, give no credence to, discredit, discount, doubt, distrust, mistrust, be suspicious of, have no confidence in, have no faith in, be incredulous of, be unconvinced about
Phrasal Verbs Secretly store or put by something, especially money. Example sentencesExamples - They weren't expecting it after all so they may as well pretend they're not getting it and salt it away for their child's future.
- He said she was rather tight-fisted with hers preferring to salt it away in a savings account and he felt lumbered with paying for most of the household bills as well as the fun things in life like holidays and meals out.
- As I have said I am satisfied it is salted away, therefore in his case, I make a Confiscation Order of the lesser of the two sums, that is the benefit figure, £139, 260 with a three year term imprisonment in default.
- Maggie, tell me about more of the iceberg, because it's easy to imagine that the money would be salted away in gold bouillon or somewhere exotic, piles of cash sitting in some vault somewhere.
- In many countries resources and funds have been salted away by corrupt governments with the result that vital medical and educational programmes are unable to cope or have ceased functioning altogether.
- He told the court: ‘He has carefully salted this money away in safe places, in safe investments and property.’
- The real truth about the surplus - and what the Government is not telling the people - is that Michael Cullen has no idea where it came from and he is salting it away for a rainy day.
Synonyms save, put aside, put away, put by, lay by, set aside, lay aside, put to one side, reserve, keep in reserve, deposit, keep, store, stockpile, hoard, stow away, cache
1Cause soap to separate from lye by adding salt. Example sentencesExamples - After adding stronger lye, the mixture is boiled until a sample becomes firm on cooling; the soap is then "salted out", i. e., common salt or concentrated brine is added, in which the soap is insoluble.
- 1.1Cause an organic compound to separate from an aqueous solution by adding an electrolyte.
Example sentencesExamples - Determinations carried out on some dileucine hydrochloride which had been salted out with NaCl showed that the NaCl in the preparation was there as a result of adhering mother liquor and therefore not in chemical combination.
- Polymers such as poly(ethylene oxide) or poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) that are salted out by electrolytes usually show an inverse temperature solubility.
Origin Old English sealt (noun), sealtan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zout and German Salz (nouns), from an Indo-European root shared by Latin sal, Greek hals ‘salt’. abbreviationsɔltsôlt Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
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