verb🔗ShareTo add salt to."to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter"foodsubstancechemistryChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo deposit salt as a saline solution."The brine begins to salt."foodsubstanceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber."The shipwright salted the new vessel, hoping the treatment would protect the wood from rot and prolong its life at sea. "nauticalsailingbuildingChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have."The miner salted the abandoned mine with a few gold nuggets to trick investors into thinking it was still profitable. "technologytechnicalcomputingprocessindustryChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo include colorful language in."He salted his already angry rant with a few choice curse words, making it even more offensive. "languagecommunicationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive."Before encrypting the student passwords, the system salted them with random data to make it much harder for hackers to crack them, even with powerful computers. "computingtechnologyinternetChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareTo which salt has been added."salted peanuts"foodChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareOf an animal, vaccinated against or having recovered from a disease."The dog was salted against rabies, so it's safe for the children to play with. "animaldiseasemedicinebiologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
