salt

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Related terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Adjective 1.4.1 Translations 1.5 Verb 1.5.1 Derived terms 1.5.2 Translations 1.6 Anagrams 2 Catalan 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Noun 3 Danish 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Adjective 3.3 Noun 3.3.1 Inflection 4 Faroese 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Noun 4.2.1 Declension 5 Icelandic 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Adjective 5.3 Noun 5.3.1 Declension 5.3.2 Derived terms 6 Latvian 6.1 Verb 7 Norwegian 7.1 Adjective 7.2 Noun 7.2.1 Derived terms 8 Old Frisian 8.1 Noun 9 Romanian 9.1 Etymology 9.2 Noun 10 Swedish 10.1 Pronunciation 10.2 Adjective 10.3 Noun 10.3.1 Usage notes 10.3.2 Synonyms 10.3.3 Derived terms 10.3.4 Related terms 11 Turkish 11.1 Adverb 11.1.1 Synonyms

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[edit] Etymology

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.

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /sɒlt/, SAMPA: /sQlt/
• (US) IPA: /sɔlt/, /sɑlt/, SAMPA: /sOlt/, /sAlt
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• Rhymes: -ɒlt

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Wikipedia

salt (plural salts)

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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• salary

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salt (comparative more salt, superlative most salt)

1. Salty.
2. Saline.

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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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• desalt

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• Alphagram: alst
• last
• lats
• slat

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Latin saltus

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salt m.

1. jump

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[edit] Etymology

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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• IPA: [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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• láta liggja í salti (to set something aside, to let something lie)
• saltstaukur
• saltsýra
• vega salt

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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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• bordsalt
• havsalt
• saltlake
• saltkrystall
• saltsyre
• salte

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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.

[edit] Usage notes

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

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• bordssalt

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• bergsalt
• havssalt
• medelhavssalt
• saltlake
• saltkristall
• saltstänkt
• saltsyra

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• salta
• sälta

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salt

1. (osbsolete) exclusively

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• sadece
• yalnız
• yalnızca
• sade
• tek
• bir
• münhasıran