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/sɔːlt
/ /sɒlt /- Alternative name: sodium chloride; chemical formula: NaCl.
- Add white soy sauce and milk, season with salt and pepper to taste and bring to a simmer.
- Lay the marinated turkey strips on the grill and season with salt and pepper to taste.
Synonyms
Synonyms
- 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.
- Sulfates are salts or esters of sulfuric acid, H 2 SO 4.
- 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.
- I used to jump off the boat to release the pots, but an old salt gave me a tip.
- 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.’
- Mediaeval monks were aware of the benefits of salt mud and concentrated sea water and used them to treat rheumatism, dropsy and obesity.
- My doctor has ordered me to take the salt air at Brighton for a few days.
- Pamela waited, breathing in the salt air, gazing up at the brilliance above.
Synonyms
- In other places, especially where the terrain is slightly elevated or the bedrock was exposed, a salt shrub and grass community is found.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Their menu varies from the noodle section to the usual rice dishes, offering Laksa Singapore to salted fish and fried rice.
- I'm not sure whether satire shouldn't get its own category; but then, most great political works are salted with satire.
- His work is salted with slogans and phrases in capital letters.
- The speech was liberally salted with the standard Lathamite insults from Werriwa College of Invective.
- The city seems to wait a week to see if the ice will melt before salting the roads.
- However, these stretches of road are thoroughly salted to clear the snow and make them safe for road users.
- The reason we gritted yesterday afternoon is that it is better to salt the roads before the snow falls.
- Phillip Arnold and John Slack salted a mine under claim to Stanton in Wyoming with uncut diamonds from South Africa.
- 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
the salt of the earth
sit below the salt
take something with a pinch (or grain) of salt
worth one's salt
put salt on the tail of
Phrasal verbs
salt something away
salt something out
Derivatives
saltish
- Hunter frequently employed his sense of taste in dissection, and encouraged his pupils to do likewise, as he recorded matter-of-factly: ‘The gastric juice is a fluid somewhat transparent, and a little saltish or brackish to the taste.’
- The sweetness from the pumpkin would complement the slightly saltish luncheon.
- Atharva was born of sweet water and Angiras was born of saltish water.
saltless
- It would make a great antipasti and it's best sliced not too thinly, served with saltless Tuscan bread.
- Rain fell like so many saltless tears and not a person in the entire city dared to go leave the shelter of their home.
- From water filters and water conditioners to reverse osmosis systems and saltless water softeners, all of our products are warranted.
saltness
- Fill your tank with sea-water, and keep it at that saltness by marking the height at which the water stands on the sides. When it evaporates a little, pour in fresh water from the brook till it comes up to the mark, and then it will be right, for the salt does not evaporate with the water.
- My blessing be on you till the sea loses its saltness and the trees forget to bud in springtime.
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.
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