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salt

When you salt something, you add salt to it. Please help me salt the fish for tonight's dinner.

salt

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

SALT

(= Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) 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

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salt · verb

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Simple sentences

He asked me to pass him the salt.
I'll put some salt in the soup.
Pass me the salt.
You think adding a little salt will make it taste much better?
Sami took that with a grain of salt.
Is it salt?
Tom has put salt into his coffee instead of sugar.
Tom only uses pink Himalayan salt.
I seasoned the fish with salt and pepper.
Rub salt in the wound.
Maintaining a high salt diet may contribute to high blood pressure.
Salt water is more buoyant than fresh water.
Would you be kind enough to pass the salt?
Pass me the salt, please.
Will you pass me the salt?
If you are done with the salt, please pass it to me.
Pass me the salt, will you?
Would you pass me the salt?
Can you pass me the salt, please?
Low-lying lands will flood. This means that people will be left homeless and their crops will be destroyed by the salt water.
The addition of salt greatly improved the flavor.
Could you pass me the salt, please?
Please pass me the salt.
Salt is necessary for cooking.
Salt is a useful substance.

Movie subtitles

I never meant that you were actually going to Salt Lake City.
He's about six foot tall, salt-of-the-earth good looks, and by far the oldest person at this party.
May I have the salt?
Where's the pepper and salt?
We got no pepper and salt.
Let all baleful spirits that threaten the souls of men be banished by the sprinkling of the salt.
He got more salt water in him, ain't he?
Them's nice, clean salt fish.
Easy on that salt, Henry.
No! Rather a hundred years in the salt mines!
Be sure to give those cattle plenty of salt.
Uncle Peter, my smelling salt!
At least, those of us who are worth our salt.
The Jew has got his hand on money, on salt, on beer, on wine, even on grain.
Haven't we had bad luck enough without you spilling the salt?
My names Sam Salt.
Mr Sam Salt.
Did he get the jewels, Mr Salt?
I want to assist you, but for the last three months you've not been worth your salt.
It ain't the size that counts, youngster. It's the salt in the lads that man it.
Now, where's the salt?
It's there next to the salt.
Get him one of those bags of salt.
But to relate that directly to religious belief, to religious revelation, if you like, should be taken with a pinch of salt.
All this. this salt.
She eats everything. But no salt.
But only sea salt.
Do you have sea salt?
Put salt on his tail.
Would you like some nice raw oysters, dear, or a dish of salt pork?
Just trying to find out if it's true about putting salt on the bird's tail, sir.

News and current affairs

Salt water came streaming into open subways.
Providing iron and iodized salt is another top investment.
Their true motivation is a question best left to future historians - who, I have no doubt, will take much of the contemporary media coverage with a grain of salt.
The extent of persistent unemployment, despite different labor-market structures and national institutions, suggests that theories that pinpoint one key failure should be taken with a grain of salt.
Since then, Congress has rejected the International Trade Organization (1948), the SALT II nuclear agreement (1979), and the Kyoto Protocol (1997), among others.
Those soaring minarets, those black headscarves, are threatening because they rub salt in the wounds of those who feel the loss of their own faith.
I could add more to this list, but that would merely be to rub salt into our wounds, which are my own as well.
Even schoolchildren can recite some projected outcomes: oceans will warm and glaciers will melt, causing sea levels to rise and salt water to inundate low-lying coastal areas.
Countries that have best weathered the economic storms of the past few years are those--like India, China and Japan--which took the IMF model with a large grain of salt.
In Iraq, a large agricultural sector operates on fairly marginal lands, where farmers fight a constant battle against salt intrusion and face severe water shortages.
It is one of dozens of similar operations - from the world's largest salt flats in the south, to Lake Titicaca in the west, to the eastern Pantanal wetlands - that combine economic growth with conservation.
The march was designed for communication, not the ostensible reason of resisting the colonial government's prohibition on the fabrication of salt.
Subsequent arms-control agreements - the SALT and START pacts - were negotiated and implemented in this context. Levels and types of nuclear weapons were permitted and limited so as not to challenge the fundamental reality of mutual vulnerability.
Psychologists and computer scientists like to talk about analysis and common sense as if they were salt and steel, or apples and oranges.
But, then again, one should take all economic forecasts about Argentina with a grain of salt.
In theory, we could simply supplement children's diets with vitamin A in capsules, or add it to some staple foodstuff, the way that we add iodine to table salt to prevent hypothyroidism and goiter.
This augments the natural process, where sea salt from the oceans provides water vapor with the cloud condensation nuclei.
First, as the energy campaigner Anne Korin puts it, we need to do to oil what was done to salt just over a century ago.
Salt had been a strategic commodity for millennia - countries fought wars over salt mines - because it was the only way to preserve meat.
But the advent of electricity, refrigeration, and freezing ended salt's monopoly relatively quickly.
It is still a useful commodity, but no one regards salt mines any more as instruments of national power and influence.
True, no European country worth its salt would ever allow its citizens to fall into such dire poverty that they literally could not escape from their homes in the face of a natural disaster.
Before a match, referees (who double as Shinto priests) purify the seaweed, salt, and sake.

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