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In transitive terms the difference between salt and paper

is that salt is to add salt to while paper is to fill a theatre or other paid event with complimentary seats.

As an initialism SALT

is strategic Arms Limitation Talks.

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:
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  • (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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    paper

    English

    (wikipedia paper)

    Noun

  • A sheet material used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.
  • *, chapter=10
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
  • A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
  • *
  • *:"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal.."
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
  • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1 , passage=“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke
  • (lb) Wallpaper.
  • *
  • *:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
  • (lb) Wrapping paper.
  • A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper'', ''term paper ), in particular one written for the Government.
  • A written document that reports scientific or academic research and is usually subjected to peer review before publication in a scientific journal or in the proceedings of a scientific or academic meeting (such as a conference, a workshop or a symposium).
  • A scholastic essay.
  • (lb) Money.
  • (lb) A university course.
  • A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
  • :
  • A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
  • :
  • Synonyms

    * (medium used in writing) bookfell

    Derived terms

    * abrasive paper * art paper * banana paper * blotting paper * bog paper * brown paper * butcher paper * carbon paper * chattel paper * cigarette paper * commercial paper * construction paper * * emery paper * filter paper * funny paper * graph paper * green paper * hang paper * linen paper * liquid paper * litmus paper * paper aeroplane/paper airplane * paper ballot * paper candidate * paper chase * paper chromatography * paper clip * paper currency * paper cut * paper cutter * paper fight * paper flower * paper hat * paper mill * paper money * paper nautilus * paper round * paper snowflake * paper tape * paper tiger * paper trail * paperbark * paperboard * paperknife * piece of paper * plain paper * position paper * put pen to paper * quadrille paper * rice paper * scientific paper * sheet of paper * scratch paper * soda paper * term paper * test paper * tissue paper * toilet paper * touch-paper * tracing paper * treacle paper * way out of a paper bag * white paper * wrapping paper * writing paper

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Made of paper.
  • :
  • *
  • *:At twilight in the summeron the floor.
  • Insubstantial.
  • :
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To apply paper to.
  • to paper the hallway walls
  • To document; to memorialize.
  • After they reached an agreement, their staffs papered it up.
  • To fill a theatre or other paid event with complimentary seats.
  • As the event has not sold well, we'll need to paper the house.

    Statistics

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