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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:
(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
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick ,
(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
(obsolete) piquancy; wit; sense
(obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
* Samuel Pepys
(figurative) That which preserves from corruption or error, or purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction.
* Bible, Matthew v. 13
Salty; salted.
* , chapter=8
, title= Saline.
(figurative, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.
* (William Shakespeare)
(figurative, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful.
To add salt to.
To deposit salt as a saline solution.
(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.
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As an initialism salt
is (politics) strategic]] arms limitation [[talks|talks.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.salt
English
Noun
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- Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts .
- 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.
- Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen we have some salt of our youth in us.
- Attic salt
- I out and bought some things; among others, a dozen of silver salts .
- His statements must be taken with a grain of salt .
- 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)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Philander went into the next room
- I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me.
- (Shakespeare)
Verb
(en verb)- to salt fish, beef, or pork
- The brine begins to salt .
Antonyms
* (add salt) desaltDerived terms
* desalt * salt awayAnagrams
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English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.