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salt
A	noun
	1	salt, saltiness, salinity
			the taste experience when salt is taken into the mouth
		Category Tree: psychological feature ╚cognition; knowledge; noesis ╚process; cognitive process; mental process; operation; cognitive operation ╚basic cognitive process ╚perception ╚sensation; sense experience; sense impression; sense datum ╚taste; taste sensation; gustatory sensation; taste perception; gustatory perception ╚salt, saltiness, salinity
	2	Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, SALT
			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
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚auditory communication ╚speech; speech communication; spoken communication; spoken language; language; voice communication; oral communication ╚discussion; give-and-take; word ╚negotiation; dialogue; talks ╚diplomacy; diplomatic negotiations ╚Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, SALT
	3	salt, table salt, common salt
			white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
		Category Tree: entity ╚substance; matter ╚food; nutrient ╚foodstuff; food product ╚ingredient; fixings ╚flavorer; flavourer; flavoring; flavouring; seasoner; seasoning ╚salt, table salt, common salt
	4	salt
			a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
		Category Tree: entity ╚substance; matter ╚compound; chemical compound ╚salt ╚borosilicate ╚borate ╚benzoate ╚ammonium chloride; sal ammoniac ╚alkali ╚perchlorate ╚sulfonate ╚pyrophosphate ╚hypochlorite ╚dibasic salt ╚chlorate ╚arsenate ╚acetate; ethanoate
B	verb
	1	salt
			preserve with salt; "people used to salt meats on ships"
		Category Tree: make; create ╚create from raw material; create from raw stuff ╚cook; fix; ready; make; prepare ╚preserve; keep ╚salt
	2	salt
			add zest or liveliness to; "She salts her lectures with jokes"
		Category Tree: change; alter; modify ╚spice; spice up ╚salt
	3	salt
			sprinkle as if with salt; "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps"
		Category Tree: spread; distribute ╚discharge ╚scatter; sprinkle; dot; dust; disperse ╚sprinkle; splash; splosh ╚salt
	4	salt
			add salt to
		Category Tree: season; flavor; flavour ╚salt
C	adjective
	1	salt
			of speech that is painful or bitter; "salt scorn"- Shakespeare; "a salt apology"

	2	salt
			containing or filled with salt; "salt water"

	3	salty, salt
			one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water

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