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savory | salt |

As an adjective savory

is tasty, attractive to the palate.

As a noun savory

is a snack or savory can be any of several mediterranean herbs, of the genus , grown as culinary flavourings.

As an initialism salt is

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savory

English

(wikipedia savory)

Alternative forms

* savoury (British)

Etymology 1

From the (etyl) savoure, from savourer, from (etyl) saporare, from sapor

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tasty, attractive to the palate.
  • The fine restaurant presented an array of savory dishes; each was delicious.
  • Salty or non-sweet.
  • The mushrooms, meat, bread, rice, peanuts and potatoes were all good savory foods.
  • Not overly sweet.
  • The savory duck contrasted well with the sweet sauce.
  • (figuratively) Morally or ethically acceptable.
  • Readers are to be warned that quotations in this chapter contain some not so savory language.
    Synonyms
    * See also

    Noun

    (savories)
  • A snack.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 18, author=Florence Fabricant, title=Off the Menu, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=P*ONG On Friday the pastry chef Pichet Ong will open his own cafe, with sweets and savories served at tables and a counter. }}

    Etymology 2

    (Satureja) Possibly from (etyl) saetherie, from (etyl) satureia, influenced by or via (etyl) savereie

    Noun

    (savories)
  • Any of several Mediterranean herbs, of the genus , grown as culinary flavourings.
  • The leaves of these plants used as a flavouring.
  • Derived terms
    * summer savory * winter savory

    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

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