Salt Pinch Chemical Noun Sɔːlt Sɒlt Pass Small

• pass the salt, please.
• a pinch of salt (= a small amount of it)
• season with salt and pepper.
• sprinkle with salt to taste.

salt

1. 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.
• SEE ALSO rock salt
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/rock-salt
• 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

Extra Examples

• Don't put so much salt on your chips!
• He could taste the salt from the water in his mouth.
• He wants to reduce his salt intake.
• I could smell the salt air as it whipped through my hair.
• Most foodstuffs contain some salt.
• a diet low in salt
2. a chemical formed from a metal and an acid
• SEE ALSO acid salt
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/acid-salt
• mineral salts
3. a substance that looks or tastes like salt
• SEE ALSO smelling salts
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/smelling-salts
• bath salts (= used to give a pleasant smell to bath water)
4. very fast and easily
• He got through the housework like a dose of salts.
5. to make a difficult experience even more difficult for somebody
6. a very good and honest person that you can always depend on
7. 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.
8. deserving respect, especially because you do your job well
• Any teacher worth her salt knows that.

Word Origin

• Old 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’.