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▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (uncommon) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
▸ noun: (slang) A sailor (also old salt).
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Flavour; taste; seasoning.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Piquancy; wit; sense.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
▸ noun: (historical, in the plural) Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine.
▸ noun: (figurative) Skepticism and common sense.
▸ noun: (Internet slang) Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing.
▸ noun: (UK, historical) The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem.
▸ noun: One who joins a workplace for the purpose of unionizing it.
▸ adjective: Of water: containing salt, saline.
▸ adjective: Treated with salt as a preservative; cured with salt, salted.
▸ adjective: Of land, fields etc.: flooded by the sea.
▸ adjective: Of plants: growing in the sea or on land flooded by the sea.
▸ adjective: Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
▸ adjective: (figurative, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.
▸ adjective: (figurative, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.
▸ adjective: (colloquial, archaic) Costly; expensive.
▸ verb: (transitive) To add salt to.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.
▸ verb: (nautical, of a ship) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.
▸ verb: To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
▸ verb: (mining) To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
▸ verb: (archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archaeological site.
▸ verb: (transitive) To add certain chemical elements to (a nuclear or conventional weapon) so that it generates more radiation.
▸ verb: (transitive) To sprinkle throughout.
▸ verb: (cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
▸ verb: To render a thing useless.
▸ verb: (military, transitive) To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.
▸ verb: (wiki) To lock a page title so it cannot be created.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A bounding; a leaping; a prance.
▸ noun: A village in Staffordshire, England.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: (politics) Initialism of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
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briny,
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sharp,
table salt,
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tasteful,
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