salt

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /sɒlt/|/sɔːlt/    美 /sɑlt/|[sɑɫt]|[sɑɫʔ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a food ingredient, seasoning, condiment, and preservative. countable,uncountable
    — Near-synonyms: table salt, rock salt, road salt
    Take good almond milk made with wine, and let it boil together, and add thereto Saffron and Salt; […]
  2. A bounding; a leaping; a prance. obsolete
    — […] he hath the skill to draw Their nectar forth, with kissing; and could make More wanton salts from this brave promontory, Down to this valley, than the nimble roe;
  3. One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid. countable,uncountable
  4. A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea. countable,uncommon
  5. A sailor (also old salt). countable,slang
    — Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts.
  6. A sequence of random data added to plain text data (such as passwords or messages) prior to encryption or hashing, in order to make brute force decryption more difficult. countable,uncountable
  7. A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it. countable,uncountable
  8. Flavour; taste; seasoning. obsolete,uncountable
    — Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen […] we have some salt of our youth in us.
  9. Piquancy; wit; sense. obsolete,uncountable
    — Attic salt
  10. A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar. countable,obsolete
    — I out and bought some things; among others, a dozen of silver salts.
  11. Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine. countable,historical,in-plural,uncountable
  12. Skepticism and common sense. figuratively,uncountable
    — Any politician's statements must be taken with a grain of salt, but his need to be taken with a whole shaker of salt.
  13. Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing. Internet,uncountable
    — There was so much salt in that thread about the poor casting decision.
  14. The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem. UK,historical,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To add salt to. transitive
    — to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter
  2. To deposit salt as a saline solution. intransitive
    — The brine begins to salt.
  3. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.
  4. To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.; To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
  5. To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.; To add bogus evidence to an archaeological site.
  6. To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.; To add certain chemical elements to (a nuclear or conventional weapon) so that it generates more radiation. transitive
    — The composition of the fallout can also be changed by "salting" the weapon to be detonated. This consists in the inclusion of significant quantities of certain elements, possibly enriched in specific isotopes, for the purpose of producing induced radioactivity. There are several reasons why a weapon might be salted.
  7. To sprinkle throughout. transitive
    — They salted the document with arcane language.
  8. To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
  9. To render a thing useless.; To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation. transitive
    — In this place were put to the ground and salted the houses of José Mascarenhas.
  10. To render a thing useless.; To lock a page title so it cannot be created.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of water: containing salt, saline.
    — Why the Sea is Salt
  2. Treated with salt as a preservative; cured with salt, salted.
    — salt beef
  3. Of land, fields etc.: flooded by the sea.
    — a salt marsh
  4. Of plants: growing in the sea or on land flooded by the sea.
    — salt grass
  5. Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
    — a salt mine
  6. Bitter; sharp; pungent. figuratively,obsolete
    — I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me […].
  7. Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat. figuratively,obsolete
    — It is impossible you should see this, / Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys, / As salt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross / As ignorance made drunk.
  8. Costly; expensive. archaic,colloquial

词形变化

salts plural more salt comparative most salt superlative salts present,singular,third-person salting participle,present salted participle,past salted past salts plural

词汇关系

近义词
sal
反义词
desalt
衍生词
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相关词
salary salad

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sel-der.
Proto-Italic *saljō
Latin saliō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin saltusbor.
English salt
Borrowed from Latin saltus.
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