salt
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(verb) preserve with salt, as of meats |
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Related Words: preserve |
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(satellite adjective) (rare; of speech) painful; bitter; "salt scorn"- Shakespeare; "a salt apology" |
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(satellite adjective) (used especially of meats) preserved in salt |
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Synonyms: salt-cured, salted |
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(adjective) containing or filled with salt; "salt water" |
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Antonyms: fresh |
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(verb) add salt to |
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Related Words: flavor, flavour, season |
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(noun) the taste experience when salt is taken into the mouth |
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Synonyms: salinity, saltiness |
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Related Words: gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, taste, taste perception, taste sensation |
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(noun) white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food |
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Synonyms: common salt, table salt |
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Related Words: flavorer, flavoring, flavourer, flavouring, seasoner, seasoning |
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(noun) a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal) |
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Related Words: Glauber's salt, Glauber's salts, acetate, acrylate, alkali, ammonium chloride, arsenate, benzoate, bichromate, bile salt, borate, borosilicate, calcium carbonate, calcium chloride, calcium lactate, calcium octadecanoate, calcium stearate, calcium sulphate, carbamate, carbonate, chemical compound, chlorate, chromate, chrome alum, common salt, compound, cream of tartar, cyanide, dibasic salt, dichromate, double salt, ferricyanide, ferrocyanide, fluoroboride, fluosilicate, fulminate, glutamate, halide, halite, hypochlorite, inorganic phosphate, isocyanate, manganate, microcosmic salt, nitrate, nitrite, orthophosphate, oxalacetate, oxalate, oxaloacetate, perchlorate, permanganate, phosphate, polyphosphate, potassium bromide, potassium carbonate, potassium chlorate, potassium dichromate, potassium hydrogen tartrate, propenoate, rock salt, sal ammoniac, sal soda, salicylate, silicate, soda, soda ash, sodium bichromate, sodium carbonate, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, sodium chlorate, sodium chloride, sodium dichromate, sodium fluoride, sulfate, sulfonate, sulphate, tartar, tartrate, thiocyanate, tungstate, vanadate, washing soda |
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(satellite adjective) one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water |
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Synonyms: salty |
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(noun) negotiations between the US and the USSR opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons |
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Synonyms: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
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Related Words: diplomacy, diplomatic negotiations |
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