salt
To add salt toTo add salt to.
» Pass me the salt, will you?
Gib mir das Salz, bitte! — Esperantostern
Вы можете передать мне соль? — odexed
Ви не могли б подати мені сіль? — deniko
CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
11 senses(transitive)To add salt to.
to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter
salzen, sålzn, soizn
соли́тьsolítʹ, посоли́тьposolítʹ
add salt to
(intransitive)To deposit salt as a saline solution.
The brine begins to salt.
preserve with salt
To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.
To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
To add bogus evidence to an archaeological site.
(transitive)To add certain chemical elements to (a nuclear or conventional weapon) so that it generates more radiation.
(transitive)To sprinkle throughout.
They salted the document with arcane language.
sprinkle as if with salt
To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
To render a thing useless.
(transitive)To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.
In this place were put to the ground and salted the houses of José Mascarenhas.
To lock a page title so it cannot be created.
To seek employment at a company in order to help unionize it.
Examples
733 sentencesPass me the salt, will you?
Ви не могли б подати мені сіль? — deniko
ruВы можете передать мне соль? — odexed
deGib mir das Salz, bitte! — Esperantostern
How much salt did you add?
Скільки ти поклав солі? — deniko
Can you pass me the salt, please?
Можеш передати мені сіль, будь ласка? — deniko
deKönnten Sie mir bitte das Salz reichen? — MUIRIEL
Would you pass me the salt, please?
Чи не могли б ви подати мені сіль, будь ласка? — deniko
deReichen Sie mir bitte das Salz. — MUIRIEL
Could you pass me the salt, please?
Ти не міг би подати мені сіль, будь ласка? — deniko
ruПожалуйста, не могли бы Вы передать мне соль? — marafon
deKönnten Sie mir bitte das Salz reichen? — MUIRIEL
Translations
8 languagesBy meaning 1
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Forms
salts, salting, salted, saltedPhrasal verbs
4 phrasal verbs- salt awayзберігатиTo salt (something) for preservation and then store it away for winter.
- salt upTo salt food for seasoning.
- salt outTo abort (a fetus) by injecting saline solution into the uterus.
- salt downTo salt (something) to slow decomposition, such as to prepare food, treat wood or preserve a corpse.
Synonyms
1 synonymsAntonyms
1 antonymsWord family
9 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
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 dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.