ALL meanings of salts
salt
S s - 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
- verb with object salts 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 salts to add interest or excitement to: a novel salted with witty dialogue. 1
- adjective salts containing salt; having the taste of salt: salt water. 1
- adjective salts cured or preserved with salt: salt cod. 1
- adjective salts inundated by or growing in salt water: salt marsh. 1
- adjective salts producing the one of the four basic taste sensations that is not sweet, sour, or bitter. 1
- adjective salts pungent or sharp: salt speech. 1
- idioms salts rub salt in / into someone's wounds, to make someone's bad situation even worse. 1
- idioms salts 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 salts worth one's salt, deserving of one's wages or salary: We couldn't find an assistant worth her salt. 1
- noun plural salts any of various mineral salts, such as magnesium sulphate or sodium sulphate, for use as a cathartic 0