salt in Malayalam മലയാളം
salt in Telugu తెలుగు
salt in English
- salt⇄adj. saltlike.
- salt⇄adj. 1. containing salt.
Ex. salt water.
2. tasting like salt; salty; saline.
Ex. food that is too salt.
3. flooded with or growing in salt water.
Ex. salt soil, salt weeds.
4. cured or preserved with salt.
Ex - salt⇄Epsom salts orsalt
a bitter, white crystalline powder taken in water as a laxative or as an antidote for poisons, or used to reduce inflammation; hydrated magnesium sulfate. - salt⇄expr. eat one's salt, to be one's guest.
Ex. He who abuses my hospitality shall never again eat my salt. - salt⇄expr. rub salt in (or into) the wound, to aggravate a person or situation further.
Ex. As if to rub salt in the wound, a special report to Parliament by the Iron and Steel Board ... takes a gloomy view of the industry's chances in export markets (L - salt⇄expr. salt away (or down),
a. to pack with salt to preserve.
Ex. The fish were salted down in a barrel.
b. (Informal, Figurative:)
Ex. I can't help thinking he must be salting a lot of money away (Booth Tarkington). - salt⇄expr. salts,
a. a medicine that causes movement of the bowels.
Ex. Epsom salts, Rochelle Salts.
b. smelling salts.
Ex. Virginia had run for the salts as soon as she perceived that her mother was unwell (Frederick Marryat). - salt⇄expr. with a grain (or pinch) of salt, with some reservation or allowance.
Ex. His claims must be taken with a grainof salt until they are established. - salt⇄expr. worth one's salt, worth one's support, wages, or the like; capable or efficient.
Ex. It was plain from every line of his body that our new hand was worth his salt (Robert Louis Stevenson). - salt⇄noun 1. a white substance found in the earth and in seawater; sodium chloride; table salt. Salt is used to season and preserve food and in many industrial processes.
2. a chemical compound derived from an acid by replacing the hydrogen wholly or p - salt⇄salt (1), noun, adjective, verb.
- salt⇄salt (2), adjective.
(Obsolete.)
1. lewd; lecherous.
Ex. Whose salt imagination yet hath wrong'd Your well defended honor (Shakespeare).
2. excessive; inordinate.
Ex. It is no salt desire Of seeing countries ... hath brough - SALT⇄SALT, noun.
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (a series of conferences between the United States and the former Soviet Union to limit nuclear armament, begun in Helsinki, Finland, on November 17, 1969). The first round of meetings, ?SALT I, ended in D - salt⇄v.t. 1. to mix or sprinkle with salt.
Ex. These [curds] are salted, adding about an ounce of salt to every three pounds of curd (J. A. Barnett).
2. to cure or preserve with salt, either in solid form or as brine.
3. to provide with sa