seɪˈlɪnəti sɒlt sɔːlt sɒlt sɔːlt sɒlt sɔːlt preserve with salt people used to salt meats on ships add zest or liveliness to She salts her lectures with jokes (of speech) painful or bitter salt scorn a salt apology sprinkle as if with salt the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps add salt to the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)