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 |
glaze | a coating for ceramics, metal, etc. |
glaze | a glossy finish on a fabric |
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 |
glaze | any of various thin shiny (savory or sweet) coatings applied to foods |
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 |
demiglace demi-glaze | sauce Espagnole with extra beef stock simmered down and seasoned with dry wine or sherry |
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 |
glaze glass glass over glaze over | become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance, Her eyes glaze over when she is bored |
salt | preserve with salt, people used to salt meats on ships |
salt | add zest or liveliness to, She salts her lectures with jokes |
glaze | coat with a glaze, the potter glazed the dishes, glaze the bread with eggwhite |
salt | sprinkle as if with salt, the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps |