A crystalline compound that results from improper pH or toxic build-up of fertilizer – salt will burn plants, preventing them from absorbing nutrients.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
salt (noun)1.
a) a crystalline compound NaCl that consists of sodium chloride, is abundant in nature, and is used especially to season or preserve food or in industry - called also common salt
b) a substance (as Glauber's salt) resembling common salt
c)
(1) a mineral or saline mixture (as Epsom ) used as an aperient or cathartic - salts
(2) - smelling salts
d) any of various compounds that result from replacement of part or all of the acid hydrogen of an acid by a metal or a group acting like a metal an ionic crystalline compound
2.
a container for salt at table - often used in the phrases above the salt and below the salt alluding to the former custom of seating persons of higher rank above and those of lower rank below a saltcellar placed in the middle of a long table
3.
a) an ingredient that gives savor, piquancy, or zest - flavor a people … full of life, vigor, and the salt of personality Clifton Fadiman
b) sharpness of wit - pungency
c) - common sense
d) - reserve skepticism usually used in the phrases with a grain of salt and with a pinch of salt
e) a dependable steadfast person or group of people - usually used in the phrase salt of the earth
4.
- sailor a tale worthy of an old salt
5.
- keep usually used in the phrase worth one's salt
transitive verb
1.
a) to treat, provide, or season with common salt
b) to preserve (food) with salt or in brine
c) to supply (as an animal) with salt
2.
to give flavor or piquancy to (as a story)
3.
a) to enrich (as a mine) artificially by secretly placing valuable mineral in some of the working places
b) to add something to secretly - salted the files with forged papers , also to insert or place secretly - salted the mines along the road
4.
a) to sprinkle with or as if with a salt
b) - scatter intersperse
1.
a) - saline salty
b) being or inducing the one of the four basic taste sensations that is suggestive of seawater - compare bitter sour sweet
2.
cured or seasoned with salt - salted salt cod
3.
overflowed with salt water - a salt pond
4.
- sharp pungent
obsolete - lustful lascivious
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
1.
river 200 (322 ) Arizona flowing into the Gila - miles kilometers W
2.
river 100 (161 ) Kentucky flowing into Ohio River - miles kilometers N cen
3.
river 200 (322 ) Missouri flowing into Mississippi River - miles kilometers NE SE
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
salt (adjective)of, relating to, or containing salt
SYNONYMS:
brackish, briny, saline, saltRELATED WORDS:
hardNEAR ANTONYMS:
sweet; clear, pure; freshwaterone who operates or navigates a seagoing vessel
SYNONYMS:
gob, hearty, jack, jack-tar, mariner, navigator, salt, sea dog, seafarer, seaman, shipman, swab, swabbie ( swabby), tarRELATED WORDS:
coxswain, crewman, deckhand, shipmate; able-bodied seaman, able seaman, lubber; powerboater, sailboater; lime-juicer [], limey []to scatter or set here and there among other things
SYNONYMS:
interlace, intersperse, interweave, lace, salt, weave, wreatheRELATED WORDS:
insert, intermingle, mingle, mix; alternate, juxtapose; amalgamate, assimilate, blend, combine, commingle, embody, fuse, incorporate, integrate, mergemineral nutrients, hydroponic nutrients, plant nutrients, nutrient salts, mineral fertilizers