1. (

• salt

) a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal) ;

2. (

• salt ,
• table_salt ,
• common_salt

) white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food ;

3. (

• Strategic_Arms_Limitation_Talks ,
• SALT

) negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons ;

4. (

• salt ,
• saltiness ,
• salinity

) the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth ;

1. (

• salt

) add salt to ;

2. (

• salt

) sprinkle as if with salt; "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps" ;

3. (

• salt ,

) add zest or liveliness to; "She salts her lectures with jokes" ;

4. (

• salt

) preserve with salt; "people used to salt meats on ships" ;

1. (

• salt

) (of speech) painful or bitter; "salt scorn"- Shakespeare; "a salt apology" ;