Sand vs Salt - What's the difference?
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(label) Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see ), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.
*
, title= A beach or other expanse of sand.
*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
, chapter=7, title= Personal courage (used before or around 1920s).
* {{quote-book, year=1979, title=Bendigo Shafter, first=Louis, last=L'Amour
, authorlink=Louis L'Amour, isbn=9780553123548, ol=24369989M
, passage=There was youngsters all around him, and he stood there lookin’ at me and never turned a hair. He had sand , that Morrell.}}
A particle from 62.5 microns to 2 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
A single grain of sand.
(label) A moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life (referring to the sand in an hourglass).
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it.
To cover with sand.
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.
In figurative terms the difference between sand and salt
is that sand is a moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life (referring to the sand in an hourglass) while salt is that which preserves from corruption or error, or purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction.In transitive terms the difference between sand and salt
is that sand is to cover with sand while salt is to add salt to.As an initialism SALT is
strategic Arms Limitation Talks.sand
English
(wikipedia sand)Noun
(en-noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand .}}
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=It was the Lost Oasis, the Oasis of the vision in the sand . […] Deep-hidden in the hollow, beneath the cliffs, it lay; and round it the happy verdure spread for many a rood. […] Yes, the quest was ended, the Lost Oasis was the Found!}}
- (Shakespeare)
- The sands are numbered that make up my life.
Derived terms
* built on sand * bury one's head in the sand * Great Sandy Desert * kick sand in somebody's face * pound sand * oil sand * quicksand * sandbag * sandbank * sandbar * sand bath * sandblast * sand-blind * sandbox * sandbox tree * sandboy * sandbur * sand-cast * sand casting * sandcastle * sand crack * sand dab * sand dollar * sand dune * sand eel * sander * sanderling * sand flea * sandfly * sand fly * sandfly fever * sandglass * sandgroper * sandgrouse * sand hill * sandhill crane * sandhog * sand hopper * sandiness * sand iron * sand lance * sand leek * sand lily * sand lizard * sandman * sand martin * sand painting * sandpaper * sand pear * sandpiper * sandpit * sand shark * sand shoe * sandshoe * sandsoap * sandspit * sandstorm * sand table * sand trap * sand verbena * sand viper * sand wedge * sandworm * sandwort * sandy * sand yacht * sandyacht * tar sandSee also
(Other terms) * arena * arenicolous * psammite * sabulous * shar-pei * tomboloVerb
(en verb)See also
*Anagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----salt
English
Noun
(en noun)374760, page 11:
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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 .