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 salt [sɔ:lt]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 盐, 风趣, 刺激

a. 含盐的, 咸的, 风趣的, 辛辣的

vt. 加盐于, 用盐腌

[医] 盐, 食盐


  1. They salted down most of the meat for their later use.
    他们将大部分肉用盐腌起来,以备日后用。
  2. The vegetables need more salt.
    这些蔬菜需要加些盐。


salt
[ noun ]
  1. a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

  2. <noun.substance>
  3. white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food

  4. <noun.food>
  5. 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

  6. <noun.communication>
  7. the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth

  8. <noun.cognition>
[ verb ]
  1. add salt to

  2. <verb.perception>
  3. sprinkle as if with salt

  4. <verb.contact>
    the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps
  5. add zest or liveliness to

  6. <verb.change>
    She salts her lectures with jokes
  7. preserve with salt

  8. <verb.change>
    people used to salt meats on ships
[ adj ]
  1. (of speech) painful or bitter

  2. <adj.all>
    salt scorn
    a salt apology


Salt \Salt\, n. [AS. sealt; akin to OS. & OFries. salt, D. zout,
G. salz, Icel., Sw., & Dan. salt, L. sal, Gr. ?, Russ. sole,
Ir. & Gael. salann, W. halen, of unknown origin. Cf. {Sal},
{Salad}, {Salary}, {Saline}, {Sauce}, {Sausage}.]
1. The chloride of sodium, a substance used for seasoning
food, for the preservation of meat, etc. It is found
native in the earth, and is also produced, by evaporation
and crystallization, from sea water and other water
impregnated with saline particles.

2. Hence, flavor; taste; savor; smack; seasoning.

Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen . .
. we have some salt of our youth in us. --Shak.

3. Hence, also, piquancy; wit; sense; as, Attic salt.

4. A dish for salt at table; a saltcellar.

I out and bought some things; among others, a dozen
of silver salts. --Pepys.

5. A sailor; -- usually qualified by old. [Colloq.]

Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing
and gossiping, clusters of old salts. --Hawthorne.

6. (Chem.) The neutral compound formed by the union of an
acid and a base; thus, sulphuric acid and iron form the
salt sulphate of iron or green vitriol.

Note: Except in case of ammonium salts, accurately speaking,
it is the acid radical which unites with the base or
basic radical, with the elimination of hydrogen, of
water, or of analogous compounds as side products. In
the case of diacid and triacid bases, and of dibasic
and tribasic acids, the mutual neutralization may vary
in degree, producing respectively basic, neutral, or
acid salts. See Phrases below.

7. Fig.: That which preserves from corruption or error; that
which purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an
allowance or deduction; as, his statements must be taken
with a grain of salt.

Ye are the salt of the earth. --Matt. v. 13.

8. pl. Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic,
especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt.

9. pl. Marshes flooded by the tide. [Prov. Eng.]

{Above the salt}, {Below the salt}, phrases which have
survived the old custom, in the houses of people of rank,
of placing a large saltcellar near the middle of a long
table, the places above which were assigned to the guests
of distinction, and those below to dependents, inferiors,
and poor relations. See {Saltfoot}.

His fashion is not to take knowledge of him that is
beneath him in clothes. He never drinks below the
salt. --B. Jonson.

{Acid salt} (Chem.)
(a) A salt derived from an acid which has several
replaceable hydrogen atoms which are only partially
exchanged for metallic atoms or basic radicals; as,
acid potassium sulphate is an acid salt.
(b) A salt, whatever its constitution, which merely gives
an acid reaction; thus, copper sulphate, which is
composed of a strong acid united with a weak base, is
an acid salt in this sense, though theoretically it is
a neutral salt.

{Alkaline salt} (Chem.), a salt which gives an alkaline
reaction, as sodium carbonate.

{Amphid salt} (Old Chem.), a salt of the oxy type, formerly
regarded as composed of two oxides, an acid and a basic
oxide. [Obsolescent]

{Basic salt} (Chem.)
(a) A salt which contains more of the basic constituent
than is required to neutralize the acid.
(b) An alkaline salt.

{Binary salt} (Chem.), a salt of the oxy type conveniently
regarded as composed of two ingredients (analogously to a
haloid salt), viz., a metal and an acid radical.

{Double salt} (Chem.), a salt regarded as formed by the union
of two distinct salts, as common alum, potassium aluminium
sulphate. See under {Double}.

{Epsom salts}. See in the Vocabulary.

{Essential salt} (Old Chem.), a salt obtained by
crystallizing plant juices.

{Ethereal salt}. (Chem.) See under {Ethereal}.

{Glauber's salt} or {Glauber's salts}. See in Vocabulary.

{Haloid salt} (Chem.), a simple salt of a halogen acid, as
sodium chloride.

{Microcosmic salt}. (Chem.). See under {Microcosmic}.

{Neutral salt}. (Chem.)
(a) A salt in which the acid and base (in theory)
neutralize each other.
(b) A salt which gives a neutral reaction.

{Oxy salt} (Chem.), a salt derived from an oxygen acid.

{Per salt} (Old Chem.), a salt supposed to be derived from a
peroxide base or analogous compound. [Obs.]

{Permanent salt}, a salt which undergoes no change on
exposure to the air.

{Proto salt} (Chem.), a salt derived from a protoxide base or
analogous compound.

{Rochelle salt}. See under {Rochelle}.

{Salt of amber} (Old Chem.), succinic acid.

{Salt of colcothar} (Old Chem.), green vitriol, or sulphate
of iron.

{Salt of hartshorn}. (Old Chem.)
(a) Sal ammoniac, or ammonium chloride.
(b) Ammonium carbonate. Cf. {Spirit of hartshorn}, under
{Hartshorn}.

{Salt of lemons}. (Chem.) See {Salt of sorrel}, below.

{Salt of Saturn} (Old Chem.), sugar of lead; lead acetate; --
the alchemical name of lead being Saturn.

{Salt of Seignette}. Same as {Rochelle salt}.

{Salt of soda} (Old Chem.), sodium carbonate.

{Salt of sorrel} (Old Chem.), acid potassium oxalate, or
potassium quadroxalate, used as a solvent for ink stains;
-- so called because found in the sorrel, or Oxalis. Also
sometimes inaccurately called {salt of lemon}.

{Salt of tartar} (Old Chem.), potassium carbonate; -- so
called because formerly made by heating cream of tartar,
or potassium tartrate. [Obs.]

{Salt of Venus} (Old Chem.), blue vitriol; copper sulphate;
-- the alchemical name of copper being Venus.

{Salt of wisdom}. See {Alembroth}.

{Sedative salt} (Old Med. Chem.), boric acid.

{Sesqui salt} (Chem.), a salt derived from a sesquioxide base
or analogous compound.

{Spirit of salt}. (Chem.) See under {Spirit}.

{Sulpho salt} (Chem.), a salt analogous to an oxy salt, but
containing sulphur in place of oxygen.


Salt \Salt\, a. [Compar. {Salter}; superl. {Saltest}.] [AS.
sealt, salt. See {Salt}, n.]
1. Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt;
prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted;
as, salt beef; salt water. ``Salt tears.'' --Chaucer.

2. Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt
marsh; salt grass.

3. Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent.

I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me. --Shak.

4. Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful. --Shak.

{Salt acid} (Chem.), hydrochloric acid.

{Salt block}, an apparatus for evaporating brine; a salt
factory. --Knight.

{Salt bottom}, a flat piece of ground covered with saline
efflorescences. [Western U.S.] --Bartlett.

{Salt cake} (Chem.), the white caked mass, consisting of
sodium sulphate, which is obtained as the product of the
first stage in the manufacture of soda, according to
Leblanc's process.

{Salt fish}.
(a) Salted fish, especially cod, haddock, and similar
fishes that have been salted and dried for food.
(b) A marine fish.

{Salt garden}, an arrangement for the natural evaporation of
sea water for the production of salt, employing large
shallow basins excavated near the seashore.

{Salt gauge}, an instrument used to test the strength of
brine; a salimeter.

{Salt horse}, salted beef. [Slang]

{Salt junk}, hard salt beef for use at sea. [Slang]

{Salt lick}. See {Lick}, n.

{Salt marsh}, grass land subject to the overflow of salt
water.

{Salt-marsh caterpillar} (Zo["o]l.), an American bombycid
moth ({Spilosoma acr[ae]a} which is very destructive to
the salt-marsh grasses and to other crops. Called also
{woolly bear}. See Illust. under {Moth}, {Pupa}, and
{Woolly bear}, under {Woolly}.

{Salt-marsh fleabane} (Bot.), a strong-scented composite herb
({Pluchea camphorata}) with rayless purplish heads,
growing in salt marshes.

{Salt-marsh hen} (Zo["o]l.), the clapper rail. See under
{Rail}.

{Salt-marsh terrapin} (Zo["o]l.), the diamond-back.

{Salt mine}, a mine where rock salt is obtained.

{Salt pan}.
(a) A large pan used for making salt by evaporation; also,
a shallow basin in the ground where salt water is
evaporated by the heat of the sun.
(b) pl. Salt works.

{Salt pit}, a pit where salt is obtained or made.

{Salt rising}, a kind of yeast in which common salt is a
principal ingredient. [U.S.]

{Salt raker}, one who collects salt in natural salt ponds, or
inclosures from the sea.

{Salt sedative} (Chem.), boracic acid. [Obs.]

{Salt spring}, a spring of salt water.

{Salt tree} (Bot.), a small leguminous tree ({Halimodendron
argenteum}) growing in the salt plains of the Caspian
region and in Siberia.

{Salt water}, water impregnated with salt, as that of the
ocean and of certain seas and lakes; sometimes, also,
tears.

Mine eyes are full of tears, I can not see;
And yet salt water blinds them not so much
But they can see a sort of traitors here. --Shak.

{Salt-water sailor}, an ocean mariner.

{Salt-water tailor}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Bluefish}.


Salt \Salt\, v. i.
To deposit salt as a saline solution; as, the brine begins to
salt.


Salt \Salt\, n. [L. saltus, fr. salire to leap.]
The act of leaping or jumping; a leap. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.


Salt \Salt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Salted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Salting}.]
1. To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve
with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt
fish, beef, or pork; to salt cattle.

2. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a
ship, for the preservation of the timber.

{To salt a mine}, to artfully deposit minerals in a mine in
order to deceive purchasers regarding its value. [Cant]

{To salt away}, {To salt down}, to prepare with, or pack in,
salt for preserving, as meat, eggs, etc.; hence,
colloquially, to save, lay up, or invest sagely, as money.

  1. Crews began installing pumps on barges Monday to haul fresh water to southern Louisiana towns plagued by rising salt levels in the lower Mississippi River.
  2. On other occasions, Ms. Lynn had Mrs. O'Boyle pin money to her clothes and wrap salt and coins in a handkerchief that belonged to her late husband.
  3. The idea is to offer more nutritious fare with less cholesterol and salt.
  4. The WIPP was supposed to open last October, but questions about the long-term safety of the salt beds and how waste is to be transported to it have delayed the opening.
  5. To compensate for the salt water's movement and to make up for lost time, the Corps might build the sand and clay sill slightly higher than originally planned, Chatry said.
  6. Gradually beat in 6 oz of diced and chilled unsalted butter, piece by piece, until amalgamated to a hot, smooth and creamy sauce, rather like a thin Hollandaise. Add two or more teaspoons of orange juice to taste and season with salt and pepper.
  7. Equally annoying are the vast quantities of salt spread on roads, pavements and driveways after every fresh snowfall. Local authorities in the northern US alone apply about 10m tonnes of rock salt to roads each winter.
  8. Equally annoying are the vast quantities of salt spread on roads, pavements and driveways after every fresh snowfall. Local authorities in the northern US alone apply about 10m tonnes of rock salt to roads each winter.
  9. Dice the white meat and put it in a pan with the cold milk and a generous pinch of salt.
  10. Associate Professor of Economics University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas Modern Misnomer The use of one expression Has come to a sudden halt: With hypertension's prevalence, Not even salt is worth its salt.
  11. Associate Professor of Economics University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas Modern Misnomer The use of one expression Has come to a sudden halt: With hypertension's prevalence, Not even salt is worth its salt.
  12. Leave the salt out when making hot cereal.
  13. But some state officials, such as New York's Lawrence Hudson, say eliminating salt can save money in the long run.
  14. Lines already are forming for such staples as milk, oil, salt, soy sauce and coal gas for cooking.
  15. A few anecdotes from a long life with such talk may indicate how many grains of salt need to be taken with it.
  16. Britain's Prince Edward on Sunday received bread and salt in a traditional Russian welcome and attended a Russian Orthodox church service.
  17. But new technology can economically remove the salt from salted whey.
  18. Add the lemon zest, a seasoning of salt and pepper, and the savoury fried crumbs.
  19. The stockpile, stored in salt caverns along the Louisiana-Texas coast, has been accumulated at a cost of more than $20 billion over the last decade.
  20. Rubbing salt (or sugar) into Disney's wounds, Universal also threw a party for the children. 'Innocence' is a hard act to sustain in the cut-throat business world.
  21. The lights were so hot, she says, that "they used to give us salt tablets."
  22. Morton International plans to maintain a presence in Utah, keeping its salt manufacturing facility at the Great Salt Lake and maintaining the Ogden plant where 350 people manufacture inflatable airbags for automobiles.
  23. Mix in the oil and vinegar, salt and pepper, and set aside. Cut the salmon fillet into very thin slices.
  24. Research at the biotechnology laboratory would focus on nervous system biology, growth hormones to boost livestock production and help underdeveloped humans, and genetic engineering to make crops resist pests, salt and drought, Ivanov said.
  25. The soldiers of the Atonal battalion proceeded to burn or throw down a ravine large quantities of beans, salt, tortillas, fresh meat and clothing left behind by rebels.
  26. They have good records for avoiding salt, fat and cholesterol but still have serious weight problems, with 77 percent of the group overweight.
  27. Ms. Cryer contended the death could have been due to the lack of a thymus gland and an inability to retain salt.
  28. The Korean Star was en route from Hong Kong to Australia to collect a consignment of salt.
  29. The whales use the Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve, a 6-million-acre protected zone, because high salt content helps pregnant females float and give birth, said Jorge Hernandez, a marine biologist for a committee that oversees the reserve.
  30. No patient had an attack after the salt solution.
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