ALL meanings of salted
salt·ed
S s - adjective salted food: salt added 1
- adjective salted containing salt; having the taste of salt: salt water. 1
- adjective salted cured or preserved with salt: salt cod. 1
- adjective salted inundated by or growing in salt water: salt marsh. 1
- adjective salted producing the one of the four basic taste sensations that is not sweet, sour, or bitter. 1
- adjective salted pungent or sharp: salt speech. 1
- noun salted a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc. 1
- noun salted table salt mixed with a particular herb or seasoning for which it is named: garlic salt; celery salt. 1
- noun salted Chemistry. any of a class of compounds formed by the replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms of an acid with elements or groups, which are composed of anions and cations, and which usually ionize in solution; a product formed by the neutralization of an acid by a base. 1
- noun salted salts, any of various salts used as purgatives, as Epsom salts. 1
- noun salted an element that gives liveliness, piquancy, or pungency: Anecdotes are the salt of his narrative. 1
- noun salted wit; pungency. 1
- noun salted a small, usually open dish, as of silver or glass, used on the table for holding salt. 1
- noun salted Informal. a sailor, especially an old or experienced one: He's an old salt who'll be happy to tell you about his years at sea. 1
- verb with object salted to season with salt. 1
- verb with object salted to cure, preserve, or treat with salt. 1
- verb with object salted to furnish with salt: to salt cattle. 1
- verb with object salted to treat with common salt or with any chemical salt. 1
- verb with object salted to spread salt, especially rock salt, on so as to melt snow or ice: The highway department salted the roads after the storm. 1
- verb with object salted to introduce rich ore or other valuable matter fraudulently into (a mine, the ground, a mineral sample, etc.) to create a false impression of value. 1
- verb with object salted to add interest or excitement to: a novel salted with witty dialogue. 1
- idioms salted rub salt in / into someone's wounds, to make someone's bad situation even worse. 1
- idioms salted with a grain / pinch of salt, with reserve or allowance; with an attitude of skepticism: Diplomats took the reports of an impending crisis with a grain of salt. 1
- idioms salted worth one's salt, deserving of one's wages or salary: We couldn't find an assistant worth her salt. 1
- adjective salted seasoned, preserved, or treated with salt 0
- adjective salted experienced in an occupation 0