Salt

Quick meaning: Salt is a noun meaning (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.

Meaning

(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.

More Meanings

1. (uncommon, countable) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
2. A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
3. A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a food ingredient, seasoning, condiment, and preservative.
4. (cryptography) A sequence of random data added to plain text data (such as passwords or messages) prior to encryption or hashing, in order to make brute force decryption more difficult.
5. (slang, countable) A sailor (also old salt).
6. (obsolete, uncountable) Flavour; taste; seasoning.
7. (obsolete, uncountable) Piquancy; wit; sense.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: table salt, rock salt, road salt

Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts.

Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen […] we have some salt of our youth in us.

Common salt, chloride of sodium, appears to be essential to the life of the higher animals.

Word Forms

• salts
• salting
• salted

Synonyms for salt

Depending on context, synonyms include sal, sharp, tasteful, brackish, briny, saliferous.

Antonyms for salt

Common opposites include desalt, fresh.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include saliferous, salinity, saline, salty, saltiness, briny.

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