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Meaning of salts

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salts

noun

Definitions

  1. A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.

  2. One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.

  3. A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.

  4. A sailor (also old salt).

verb

Definitions

  1. To add salt to.

    Example: to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter

  2. To deposit salt as a saline solution.

    Example: The brine begins to salt.

  3. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.

  4. To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.