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salts

salt
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [sawlt]
    • /sɔlt/
    • /sɒlt/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [sawlt]
    • /sɔlt/

Definitions of salts word

  • noun salts Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. 1
  • verb with object salts to season with salt. 1
  • verb with object salts to cure, preserve, or treat with salt. 1
  • verb with object salts to furnish with salt: to salt cattle. 1
  • verb with object salts to treat with common salt or with any chemical salt. 1
  • verb with object salts to spread salt, especially rock salt, on so as to melt snow or ice: The highway department salted the roads after the storm. 1
See all 17 definitions of salts

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Origin of salts

First appearance:

before 900
One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; (noun and adj.) Middle English; Old English sealt; cognate with German Salz, Old Norse, Gothic salt; akin to Latin sāl, Greek háls (see halo-); (v.) Middle English salten, Old English s(e)altan; compare Old High German salzan, Old Norse salta, Dutch zouten; see salary

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Parts of speech for Salts

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Salts

salts popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 100% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for salts

noun salts

  • ammonia — Ammonia is a colourless liquid or gas with a strong, sharp smell. It is used in making household cleaning substances.
  • ammonium carbonate — an unstable pungent soluble white powder that is a double salt of ammonium bicarbonate and ammonium carbamate: used in the manufacture of baking powder, smelling salts, and ammonium compounds. Formula: (NH4)HCO3.(NH4)CO2NH2
  • hartshorn — the antler of a hart, formerly used as a source of ammonia.
  • methedrine — Methamphetamine.

verb salts

  • cures — Plural form of cure.
  • flavors — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flavor.
  • kippers — Plural form of kipper.
  • marinades — Plural form of marinade.
All 29 Synonyms of salts

Top questions with salts

  • what is epsom salts?
  • what are bath salts?
  • how to make bath salts?
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  • where to buy epsom salts?
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Related words

  • alkali

    An alkali is a substance with a pH value of more than 7. Alkalis form chemical salts when they are combined with acids.

  • anionic detergent

    any of a class of synthetic compounds whose anions are alkali salts, as soap, or whose ions are ammonium salts.

  • quaternary ammonium compound

    any of a class of salts derived from ammonium in which the nitrogen atom is attached to four organic groups, as in benzalkonium chloride; the salts are cationic surface-active compounds used as antiseptics and disinfectants.

  • -ite

    a native or inhabitant of

  • algin

    alginic acid or one of its esters or salts, esp the gelatinous solution obtained as a by-product in the extraction of iodine from seaweed, used in mucilages and for thickening jellies

  • alginic acid

    powdery substance extracted from kelp
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