salt
/sɑlt/ sustantivo A2En español: sal, salcita, salecita
- 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
- One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
- A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
- A sailor (also old salt).
- 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.
- A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
- Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine.
- 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.
Plural salts
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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de Saint-Méran, I applied my smelling-salts; but all was over, and I arrived at Aix by the side of a corpse.”
## The Salt Merchant and His Ass
A PEDDLER drove his Ass to the seashore to buy salt.
The Peddler retraced his steps and refilled his panniers with a larger quantity of salt than before.
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