Definition of "salt" in 英语

noun

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
(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.
(uncommon, countable) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
(slang, countable) A sailor (also old salt).
(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.
A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
(obsolete, uncountable) Flavour; taste; seasoning.
(obsolete, uncountable) Piquancy; wit; sense.
- Attic salt
(obsolete, countable) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
(historical, in the plural) Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine.
(figurative, 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.
(Internet slang, uncountable) Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing.
- There was so much salt in that thread about the poor casting decision.
(UK, historical, uncountable) The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem.

adjective

Of water: containing salt, saline.
- Why the Sea is Salt
Treated with salt as a preservative; cured with salt, salted.
- salt beef
Of land, fields etc.: flooded by the sea.
- a salt marsh
Of plants: growing in the sea or on land flooded by the sea.
- salt grass
Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
- a salt mine
- The salt factory is a key connecting element in the seawater infrastructure.
(figurative, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.
(figurative, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.
(colloquial, archaic) Costly; expensive.

verb

(transitive) To add salt to.
- to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter
(intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.
- The brine begins to salt.
(nautical, of a ship) 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.
(transitive) To sprinkle throughout.
- They salted the document with arcane language.
(cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
To render a thing useless.