noun
                                                a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
                                                
                                                                                             
                                                                                        
                                                noun
                                                white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
                                                                                                Synonyms
                                                
                                                                                                                                                                        table salt
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                common salt
                                                                                                                                                            
                                                
                                                                                             
                                                                                        
                                                noun
                                                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
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                                                                                                                                                                        Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
                                                                                                                                                            
                                                
                                                                                             
                                                                                        
                                                noun
                                                the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
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                                                verb
                                                sprinkle as if with salt
                                                
                                                                                                Examples
                                                
                                                                                                        - the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps
 
                                                                                        
                                                verb
                                                add zest or liveliness to
                                                
                                                                                                Examples
                                                
                                                                                                        - She salts her lectures with jokes
 
                                                                                        
                                                verb
                                                preserve with salt
                                                
                                                                                                Examples
                                                
                                                                                                        - people used to salt meats on ships
 
                                                                                        
                                                adjective
                                                (of speech) painful or bitter
                                                
                                                                                                Examples
                                                
                                                                                                        - salt scorn"- Shakespeare
- a salt apology