salt
/sɑlt/ verb C2- To add salt to. · to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter
- To deposit salt as a saline solution. · The brine begins to salt.
- To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.
- 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.
- To add certain chemical elements to (a nuclear or conventional weapon) so that it generates more radiation.
- To sprinkle throughout. · They salted the document with arcane language.
- To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
He/she/it salts · Past salted · Past participle salted · -ing form salting
Verb forms
- Base form
- salt
- He/she/it
- salts
- Past
- salted
- Past participle
- salted
- -ing form
- salting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“Count,” added Mercédès with a supplicating glance, “there is a beautiful Arabian custom, which makes eternal friends of those who have together eaten bread and salt under the same roof.”
“I know it, madame,” replied the count; “but we are in France, and not in Arabia, and in France eternal friendships are as rare as the custom of dividing bread and salt with one another.”
## The Salt Merchant and His Ass
A PEDDLER drove his Ass to the seashore to buy salt.
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