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salt | contact |

As an initialism salt

is (politics) strategic]] arms limitation [[talks|talks.

As a noun contact is

the act of touching physically; being in close association.

As a verb contact is

to touch; to come into physical contact with.

salt

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
  • * c. 1430' (reprinted '''1888 ), Thomas Austin, ed., ''Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: 374760, page 11:
  • Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke
  • (chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
  • (uncommon) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
  • (slang) A sailor .
  • * 1850 , Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
  • Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts .
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick ,
  • I never go as a passenger; nor, though I am something of a salt , do I ever go to sea as a Commodore, or a Captain, or a Cook.
  • (cryptography) Randomly]] chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting it, in order to render [[brute force, brute-force decryption more difficult.
  • A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
  • (obsolete) flavour; taste; seasoning
  • * Shakespeare
  • Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen we have some salt of our youth in us.
  • (obsolete) piquancy; wit; sense
  • Attic salt
  • (obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
  • * Samuel Pepys
  • I out and bought some things; among others, a dozen of silver salts .
  • (figurative) That which preserves from corruption or error, or purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction.
  • His statements must be taken with a grain of salt .
  • * Bible, Matthew v. 13
  • Ye are the salt of the earth.

    Derived terms

    * chicken salt * desalt * Epsom salt * persalt * pinch of salt * protosalt * rock salt * rub salt in the wound / rub salt in a wound * salt and pepper * saltcellar * salt lake * Salt Lake City * salt marsh * salt of the earth * salt sea * saltwater * salty * sea salt * table salt * take with a pinch of salt *

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Salty; salted.
  • * , chapter=8
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Philander went into the next room
  • Saline.
  • (figurative, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
  • I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me.
  • (figurative, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful.
  • (Shakespeare)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To add salt to.
  • to salt fish, beef, or pork
  • To deposit salt as a saline solution.
  • The brine begins to salt .
  • (mining) To blast gold into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
  • (cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
  • To include colorful language in.
  • To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
  • (archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archeological site.
  • To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
  • Antonyms

    * (add salt) desalt

    Derived terms

    * desalt * salt away

    Anagrams

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    contact

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of touching physically; being in close association.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
  • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1 , passage=She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.}}
  • The establishment of communication (with).
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, […], he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.}}
  • A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
  • Someone with whom one is in communication.
  • (label) A contact lens.
  • (label) A device designed for repetitive connections.
  • Contact juggling.
  • (mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
  • (Raymond)

    Derived terms

    * body contact * contact hitter * contactable * eye contact * first contact * golden contact * point of contact / POC

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To touch; to come into physical contact with.
  • The side of the car contacted the pedestrian.
  • To establish communication with something or someone
  • I am trying to contact my sister.