salt
noun, /sɒlt//sɔːlt/
Слово англійською: salt
Переклад salt українською: сіль, сіль для ва́нни, сі́льниця
Детальний опис
- [uncountable] a white substance that is added to food to make it taste better or to preserve it. Salt is obtained from mines and is also found in seawater. It is sometimes called common salt to show that it is different from other chemical salts. Its chemical name is sodium chloride.
- Pass the salt, please.
- a pinch of salt (= a small amount of it)
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Sprinkle with salt to taste.
- Avoid adding table salt to your food.
- salt and vinegar crisps
- [countable] (chemistry) a chemical formed from a metal and an acid
- mineral salts
- salts[plural] a substance that looks or tastes like salt
- bath salts (= used to give a pleasant smell to bath water)
Word OriginOld English sealt (noun), sealtan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zout and German Salz (nouns), from an Indo-European root shared by Latin sal, Greek hals ‘salt’.
Idioms
like a dose of salts
- (British English, old-fashioned, informal) very fast and easily
- He got through the housework like a dose of salts.
rub salt into the wound | rub salt into somebody’s wounds
- to make a difficult experience even more difficult for somebody
the salt of the earth
- a very good and honest person that you can always depend on
take something with a pinch of salt
(North American English also take something with a grain of salt)
- to be careful about believing that something is completely true
- If I were you, I’d take everything he says with a pinch of salt.
worth your/its salt
- deserving respect, especially because you do your job well
- Any teacher worth her salt knows that.