Meaning

14 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a food ingredient, seasoning, condiment, and preservative.

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

    Salz, Kochsalz, Soiz

    сольsolʹ, пова́ренная сольpovárennaja solʹ

    сільsilʹ

    white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food

  2. (countable, uncountable)One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.

    Salz

    сольsolʹ

    a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

  3. (countable, uncommon)A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.

  4. (countable, slang)A sailor (also old salt).

    Seebär

  5. (countable, uncountable)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.

  6. (countable, uncountable)A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.

  7. (countable, historical, in the plural, uncountable)Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine.

  8. (figuratively, uncountable)Skepticism and common sense.

    Any politician's statements must be taken with a grain of salt, but his need to be taken with a whole shaker of salt.

  9. (Internet, uncountable)Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing.

    There was so much salt in that thread about the poor casting decision.

  10. (UK, historical, uncountable)The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem.

  11. (obsolete, uncountable)Flavour; taste; seasoning.

  12. (obsolete, uncountable)Piquancy; wit; sense.

    Attic salt

Examples

733 sentences
  1. Pass me the salt, will you?

    Ви не могли б подати мені сіль?

    ruВы можете передать мне соль?

    deGib mir das Salz, bitte!

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  2. How much salt did you add?

    Скільки ти поклав солі?

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  3. Can you pass me the salt, please?

    Можеш передати мені сіль, будь ласка?

    deKönnten Sie mir bitte das Salz reichen?

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  4. Would you pass me the salt, please?

    Чи не могли б ви подати мені сіль, будь ласка?

    deReichen Sie mir bitte das Salz.

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  5. Could you pass me the salt, please?

    Ти не міг би подати мені сіль, будь ласка?

    ruПожалуйста, не могли бы Вы передать мне соль?

    deKönnten Sie mir bitte das Salz reichen?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
sodium chloride:
Русский
By meaning 1
sodium chloride:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
sodium chloride:
sailor:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin saltus.

Borrowed from Latin saltus.

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Forms

plural: salts
Singularsalt
Pluralsalts

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth:saltinesssalinity
  • white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food:table saltcommon salt
  • 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

Word family

152 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • salt and pepper
  • too much salt
  • much salt
  • little more salt
  • more salt
  • add salt
  • pass the salt
  • a little salt
  • the salt please
  • much salt in
  • the salt and
  • put some salt

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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