Noun
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the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
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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
- strategic arms limitation talks -
white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
- table salt - common salt -
a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
Verb
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preserve with salt
"people used to salt meats on ships"
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add zest or liveliness to
"She salts her lectures with jokes"
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sprinkle as if with salt
"the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps"
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add salt to
Adjective
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(of speech) painful or bitter
"salt scorn"- Shakespeare
"a salt apology"