salt

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[edit] English

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Old English sealt, from Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European. Cognate with Dutch zout, German Salz, Swedish salt; and with Ancient Greek ἅλς, Latin sal, Welsh halen, Russian соль.

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Singular
salt

Plural
salts

salt (plural salts)

salt crystals
  1. A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
  2. (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.
  3. A kind of marsh at the shore of a sea (short for salt marsh, apparently not in a wide-spread use).
  4. (slang) A sailor (also old salt).
  5. (cryptography) Additional bytes inserted into a plaintext message before encryption, in order to increase randomness and render brute-force decryption more difficult.
  6. A person that engages in the political act of seeking employment at a company in order to help unionize it. IWW article PoliticalAffairs article

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salt (comparative more salt, superlative most salt)

Positive
salt

Comparative
more salt

Superlative
most salt

  1. Salty.
  2. Saline.

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Infinitive
to salt

Third person singular
salts

Simple past
salted

Past participle
salted

Present participle
salting

to salt (third-person singular simple present salts, present participle salting, simple past and past participle salted)

  1. (transitive) To add salt to.
  2. (mining) To blast gold into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
  3. (cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
  4. To include colorful language in.
  5. To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
  6. (archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archeological site.

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Latin saltus

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salt m.

  1. jump

[edit] Danish

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From Old Norse saltr (salt) (adjective), from salt (noun), from Proto-Indo-European *sáls, *séh₂ls (salt).

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salt (neuter salt, definite and plural salte, comparative saltere, superlative saltest)

  1. salty, salt

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salt n. (singular definite saltet, plural indefinite salte)

  1. salt

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salt n.

  1. salt

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n5 Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative salt saltið sølt søltini
Accusative salt saltið sølt søltini
Dative salti saltinum søltum søltunum
Genitive salts saltsins salta saltanna

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salt

  1. salty, positive neuter singular nominative of saltur

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salt n. (salt-s, sölt)

  1. salt
    Geturðu rétt mér saltið?
    Can you pass me the salt?

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Declension of salt
(singular) (plural)
(indefinite) (definite) (indefinite) (definite)
nominative salt saltið sölt söltin
accusative salt saltið sölt söltin
dative salti saltinu söltum söltunum
genitive salts saltsins salta saltanna
Other words with the same declension

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salt

  1. freeze

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salt (comparative saltere, superlative saltest)

  1. salty, salt

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salt salt n. (definite singular saltet; indefinite plural salt/salter; definite plural salta/saltene)

  1. salt

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salt

  1. salt

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Latin saltus

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salt n.

  1. leap

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Inflections of
salt
Absolute Comparative Superlative
Attributive Predicative
Indefinite
singular
Common salt saltare saltast
Neuter salt
Definite
singular
Masc. salte saltaste
All salta saltaste
Plural salta saltaste

salt

  1. salty

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salt n.

Inflection for salt Singular Plural
neuter Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Base form salt saltet salter salterna
Possessive form salts saltets salters salternas


  1. salt
    1. sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
    2. (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.

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When used for the salt NaCl (common salt) specifically, the word is uncountable.

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salt

  1. (osbsolete) exclusively

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