Salt Bre Pass Pinch Sea Noun Sɔːlt Sɒlt

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

salt

1. a white substance that is added to food to give it a better flavour or to preserve it. Salt is obtained from mines and is also found in sea water. It is sometimes called common salt to distinguish it from other chemical salts.
• synonym sodium chloride
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/sodium-chloride
• Pass the salt, please.
• a pinch of salt (= a small amount of it)
• Season with salt and pepper.
• sea 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.

Extra Examples

• Could you pass the salt, please?
• 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.
• When salt is dissolved in water, it alters the properties of the water.
• a diet low in salt
• foods with a high salt content

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’.