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salt

(sôlt)

1. A usually whitish crystalline solid, chiefly sodium chloride, used extensively in ground or granulated form as a food seasoning and preservative. Also called common salt, table salt.

2. An ionic chemical compound formed by replacing all or part of the hydrogen ions of an acid with metal ions or other cations.

3. salts Any of various mineral salts used as laxatives or cathartics.

4. salts Smelling salts.

5. often salts Epsom salts.

6. An element that gives flavor or zest.

7. Sharp lively wit.

8. Informal A sailor, especially when old or experienced.

9. A saltcellar.

adj.

1. Containing or filled with salt: a salt spray; salt tears.

2. Having a salty taste or smell: breathed the salt air.

3. Preserved in salt or a salt solution: salt mackerel.

a. Flooded with seawater.

b. Found in or near such a flooded area: salt grasses.

tr.v. salt·ed, salt·ing, salts

1. To add, treat, season, or sprinkle with salt.

2. To cure or preserve by treating with salt or a salt solution.

3. To provide salt for (deer or cattle).

4. To add zest or liveliness to: salt a lecture with anecdotes.

5. To give an appearance of value to by fraudulent means, especially to place valuable minerals in (a mine) for the purpose of deceiving.

Phrasal Verbs:

salt away

To put aside; save.

salt out

To separate (a dissolved substance) by adding salt to the solution.

Idioms:

salt of the earth

1. A person or group considered as embodying simplicity and moral integrity.

2. Archaic A person or group considered the best or most worthy part of society.

worth (one's) salt

Efficient and capable.

[Middle English, from Old English sealt; see sal- in Indo-European roots.]

SALT

(sôlt)

abbr.

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

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salt away

or less commonly

salt down

(tr, adverb) to hoard or save (money, valuables, etc)

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Verb

salt away - keep or lay aside for future use; "store grain for the winter"; "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat"

hive away, lay in, stack away, stash away, store, put in

bin - store in bins

keep, hold on - retain possession of; "Can I keep my old stuffed animals?"; "She kept her maiden name after she married"

computerise, computerize - store in a computer; "computerized dictionary"

victual - lay in provisions; "The vessel victualled before the long voyage"

collect, compile, accumulate, amass, roll up, hoard, pile up - get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune"

hive - store, like bees; "bees hive honey and pollen"; "He hived lots of information"

salt

noun

Informal. A person engaged in sailing or working on a ship:

jack (uppercase), jack-tar, mariner, navigator, sailor, sea dog, seafarer, seaman.

Informal: tar.

Slang: gob.

phrasal verb
salt away

1. To reserve for the future:

keep, lay aside, lay away, lay by, lay in, lay up, put by, save (up), set by.

2. To place (money) in a bank:

bank, deposit, lay away.

Informal: sock away.

Translations

auf die hohe Kante legen

mettere da parte

w>salt away

vt sep (inf) money → auf die hohe Kante legen (inf)

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But Army hit four free throws in the final seconds to salt away a 65-61 Patriot League women's basketball victory over Holy Cross at Christl Arena.

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Wash the excess salt away in the morning and slowly melt the fat in a braising pan, place the duck legs into the fat with the garlic and fresh herbs and gently simmer - braise for three hours until the meat feels like it would fall off the bone but will not.

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But another central figure in our financial collapse continues to quietly salt away the millions.

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The salt will absorb the odor, and then you can rinse the salt away with hot soapy water.

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Barber points out that savers who don't use their allowance in the current tax year can salt away pounds 6,600 in cash beyond the taxman's grasp by rolling their 2007 allowance into 2008.