salt

CEFRA1

/sɒlt/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A white substance used to add flavor to food.

  2. 02

    verb

    To add salt to food or another substance.

Examples

  • I seasoned the fish with salt and pepper.

  • Sift the flour and salt into a bowl.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • [sɑɫt]
  • [sɑɫʔ]

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.

  2. One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.

  3. A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a food ingredient, seasoning, condiment, and preservative.

More examples

In context

  • "Pass me the salt, please." "Here you are."

  • Any politician's statements must be taken with a grain of salt, but his need to be taken with a whole shaker of salt.

  • Near-synonyms: table salt, rock salt, road salt

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Origin

noun

PIE word *sḗh₂l From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-West Germanic *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l (“salt”). Doublet of sal, salary, and salsa, all ultimately from Latin sāl (“salt”), which it superseded as the general term for "salt". Cognate with Dutch zout, German Salz, Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish salt.