LEARNit Dictionary

salt

noun

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1

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a white substance that is added to food to make it taste better or to preserve it. Salt is obtained from mines and is also found in seawater. It is sometimes called common salt to show that it is different from other chemical salts. Its chemical name is sodium chloride.

نمک, نمک خوراکی, نمک معمولی, نمک طعام

see also rock salt, sea salt

2

a chemical formed from a metal and an acid

نمک

mineral salts

see also acid salt, Epsom salts

3

a substance that looks or tastes like salt

نمک

bath salts

see also smelling salts

verb

1

to put salt on or in food

نمک زدن, نمک پاشیدن

2

to preserve food with salt

نمک سود کردن, نمک زدن

salted fish

We salted down a large crop of beans last year.

3

to put salt on roads to melt ice or snow

نمک پاشیدن, پاشیدن نمک, جاده نمک زدن, جاده نمک پاشیدن

adjective

1

containing, tasting of or preserved with salt

نمکین, شور