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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.
(location) In a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) at some distance from the speaker (compare here ).
* 1623 , , The Comedy of Errors , Act 5, Scene 1,
* 1769 , , 2, viii,
* 1667 , '', 1773, James Buchanan (editor), ''The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered into Grammatical Construction ,
(figuratively) In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place.
* 1597 '', Act 3, Scene 3, 1836, ''The Works of Shakespeare , Isaac, Tuckey, and Co.,
(location) To or into that place; thither.
* , prologue:
* 1623 , , Act 2, Scene 1,
* 1690 , , paragraph 4:
* 1769 , , 28, vii,
(obsolete) Where, there where, in which place.
* ,
*:: Note : Modern editions commonly render this instance of ther'' as ''where .
In existence or in this world; see pronoun section below .
* 1928 January, Captain Ferdinand Tuohy, "Why Don't We Fly?", in Popular Science ,
That place.
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That status; that position.
* 1908', C. H. Bovill (lyrics), Jerome D. Kern (music), '''', song from the musical ''Fluffy Ruffles ,
* 1909', ,
* 1918 , , Part 1, II,
* 1895 , Sabine Baring-Gould, : Nursery Songs, XXII: The Tree in the Wood,
* 1897 , '': The Kentucky Home, in ''Four Great Americans ,
* 1904 , Uriel Waldo Cutler, , Chapter XXXI: How Sir Launcelot Found the Holy Grail,
(in combination with certain prepositions, no longer productive) That.
(colloquial)
As an initialism salt
is (politics) strategic]] arms limitation [[talks|talks.As an adverb there is
(location) in a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) at some distance from the speaker (compare here ).As an interjection there is
.As a noun there is
that place.As a pronoun there is
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English
Noun
(en noun)374760, page 11:
- Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke
- 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
* 1000 English basic words ----there
English
Adverb
(-)- And in a dark and dankish vault at home / There left me and my man, both bound together;
- The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
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- To veil the heav'n, tho' darkne?s there' might well / Seem twilight ' here .
- He did not stop there , but continued his speech.
- They patched up their differences, but matters did not end there .
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- The law, that threaten’d death, becomes thy friend / And turns it to exile; there art thou happy.
- A knight there was, and that a worthy man /
- And the rarest that e’er came there .
- So that wherever there is sense or perception, there some idea is actually produced, and present in the understanding.
- There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:
The Summoners's Prologue and Tale]'', in ''[[w:The Canterbury Tales, The Canterbury Tales],
- And spende hir good ther it is resonable;
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- These firms do not want the truth to get out and are financing these flights in the hope of dazzling the public. Yet the record of the gas engine is there for all to see.
Usage notes
* The use of there'' instead of they're (meaning ''they are ) is a common error in English writing. * (to or into that place) ** There'' is sometimes used by way of exclamation, calling attention to something, especially to something distant; as, There, there'''! See '''there'''! Look ' there ! ** There is often used as an expletive, and in this use, when it introduces a sentence or clause, the verb precedes its subject. ** There is much used in composition, and often has the sense of a pronoun. See thereabout, thereafter, therefrom, etc.Synonyms
* (to or into that place) thither (archaic)Derived terms
* * * * * * * * * * *Interjection
(en interjection)- There, there. Everything is going to turn out all right.
- There! That knot should hold.
Noun
(en noun)- You get it ready; I'll take it from there .
Pronoun
(English Pronouns)- There are two apples on the table. [=Two apples are on the table.]
- There is no way to do it. [=No way to do it exists.]
- Is there an answer? [=Does an answer exist?]
- No, there isn't. [=No, one doesn't exist.]
- It's very sad but all the same, / There ’s something rather odd about Augustus.
- There was a time when I tried to change my position, which was not in harmony with my conscience; .
- There are intentional and unintentional towns.
- If x is a positive number, then there''' exists ''[='''there is]'' a positive number y less than x.
- There remain several problems with this approach. [=Several problems remain with this approach.]
- Once upon a time, in a now-forgotten kingdom, there''' lived a woodsman with his wife.'' [=' There was a woodsman, who lived with his wife.]
- There''' arose a great wind out of the east.'' [=' There was now a great wind, arising in the east.]
- All in a wood there grew a fine tree,
- Not far from Hodgensville, in Kentucky, there once lived a man whose name was Thomas Lincoln.
- On a night, as he slept, there came a vision unto him, and a voice said, "Launcelot, arise up, and take thine armour, and enter into the first ship that thou shalt find."
- There''' seems to be some difficulty with the papers.'' [=It seems that ' there is some difficulty with the papers.]
- I expected there''' to be a simpler solution.'' [=I expected that ' there would be a simpler solution.]
- There''' are beginning to be complications.'' [=It's beginning to be the case that ' there are complications.]
- there'''for, '''there'''at, ' there under
- Hi there , young fellow.
