punch clout poke lick biff slug | (boxing) a blow with the fist, I gave him a clout on his nose |
lick lap | touching with the tongue, the dog's laps were warm and wet |
treadmill salt mine | a job involving drudgery and confinement |
pepper-and-salt | a fabric woven with flecks of light and dark |
salt mine | a mine where salt is dug |
saltshaker salt shaker | a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling salt |
salt saltiness salinity | the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth |
SALT I | the first treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
SALT II | the second treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks SALT | negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons |
low-sodium diet low-salt diet salt-free diet | a diet that limits the intake of salt (sodium chloride), often used in treating hypertension or edema or certain other disorders |
salt pork | fat from the back and sides and belly of a hog carcass cured with salt |
salt cod | codfish preserved in salt, must be desalted and flaked by soaking in water and pounding, used in e.g. codfish cakes |
salt table salt common salt | white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food |
celery salt | ground celery seed and salt |
garlic salt | ground dried garlic and salt |
onion salt | ground dried onion and salt |
seasoned salt | combination of salt and vegetable extracts and spices and monosodium glutamate |
sour salt | crystals of citric acid used as seasoning |
Salt Lake City capital of Utah | the capital and largest city of Utah, located near the Great Salt Lake in north central Utah, world capital of the Mormon Church |
Dasht-e-Kavir Kavir Desert Great Salt Desert | a salt desert in north central Iran |
Great Salt Lake | a shallow body of salt water in northwestern Utah |
salt flat salt plain | a flat expanse of salt left by the evaporation of a body of salt water |
salt lick lick | a salt deposit that animals regularly lick |
salt marsh | low-lying wet land that is frequently flooded with saltwater |
mariner seaman tar Jack-tar Jack old salt seafarer gob sea dog | a man who serves as a sailor |
salter salt merchant | someone who makes or deals in salt |
salt rush Juncus leseurii | rush of the Pacific coast of North America |
annual salt-marsh aster | a variety of aster |
perennial salt marsh aster | a variety of aster |
salt reed grass Spartina cynosuroides | tall reedlike grass common in salt meadows |
salt marsh mallow Kosteletzya virginica | subshrub of southeastern United States to New York |
salt tree Halimodendron halodendron Halimodendron argenteum | spiny shrub of the Caspian salt plains and Siberia having elegant silvery, downy young foliage and mildly fragrant pink-purple blooms |
salt depletion | loss of salt from the body without replacement (loss by vomiting or profuse perspiration or urination or diarrhea) thus upsetting the electrolyte balance |
dibasic salt | a salt derived by replacing two hydrogen atoms per molecule |
sodium chloride common salt | a white crystalline solid consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl) |
halite rock salt | naturally occurring crystalline sodium chloride |
Rochelle salt Rochelle salts potassium sodium tartrate | a double salt used in Seidlitz powder, acts as a cathartic |
salt | a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal) |
double salt | a solution of two simple salts that forms a single substance on crystallization |
bile salt | a salt of bile acid and a base, functions as an emulsifier of lipids and fatty acids |
Glauber's salt Glauber's salts | (NaSO.HO) a colorless salt used as a cathartic |
microcosmic salt | a white salt present in urine and used to test for metal oxides |
salt | preserve with salt, people used to salt meats on ships |
salt | add zest or liveliness to, She salts her lectures with jokes |
solve work out figure out puzzle out lick work d | find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of, did you solve the problem?, Work out your problems with the boss, this unpleasant situation isn't going to work itself out, did you get it?, Did you get my meaning?, He could not work the math problem |
lap lap up lick | take up with the tongue, The cat lapped up the milk, the cub licked the milk from its mother's breast |
salt | sprinkle as if with salt, the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps |
cream bat clobber drub thrash lick | beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight, We licked the other team on Sunday! |
lick lap | pass the tongue over, the dog licked her hand |