Salt vs Spalt - What's the difference?
salt | spalt |
A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
* c. 1430' (reprinted '''1888 ), Thomas Austin, ed., ''Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London:
(chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
(uncommon) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
(slang) A sailor .
* 1850 , Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick ,
(cryptography) Randomly]] chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting it, in order to render [[brute force, brute-force decryption more difficult.
A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
(obsolete) flavour; taste; seasoning
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) piquancy; wit; sense
(obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
* Samuel Pepys
(figurative) That which preserves from corruption or error, or purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction.
* Bible, Matthew v. 13
Salty; salted.
* , chapter=8
, title= Saline.
(figurative, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.
* (William Shakespeare)
(figurative, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful.
To add salt to.
To deposit salt as a saline solution.
(mining) To blast gold into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
(cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
To include colorful language in.
To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
(archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archeological site.
To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
spelter
(of wood) brittle
:Note : (US) Spalted wood is that which has been cut from a naturally cured, dead, or dying hardwood tree whose wood is normally light in color (such as pecan), and which exhibits patterns of dark stain (crazed) lines and splotches caused by microorganisms and/or fungus. Although slightly more brittle and porous than normal wood from the same species of tree, spalted wood nevertheless can be used to make decorative items and small pieces of furniture.
heedless; clumsy; pert; saucy
As nouns the difference between salt and spalt
is that salt is a common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative while spalt is spelter.As adjectives the difference between salt and spalt
is that salt is salty; salted while spalt is brittle.As verbs the difference between salt and spalt
is that salt is to add salt to while spalt is to break off pieces, especially with an axe etc; to splinter.As an initialism SALT
is strategic Arms Limitation Talks.salt
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(en noun)374760, page 11:
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- Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts .
- I never go as a passenger; nor, though I am something of a salt , do I ever go to sea as a Commodore, or a Captain, or a Cook.
- Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen we have some salt of our youth in us.
- Attic salt
- I out and bought some things; among others, a dozen of silver salts .
- His statements must be taken with a grain of salt .
- Ye are the salt of the earth.
Derived terms
* chicken salt * desalt * Epsom salt * persalt * pinch of salt * protosalt * rock salt * rub salt in the wound / rub salt in a wound * salt and pepper * saltcellar * salt lake * Salt Lake City * salt marsh * salt of the earth * salt sea * saltwater * salty * sea salt * table salt * take with a pinch of salt *Adjective
(en adjective)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Philander went into the next room
- I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me.
- (Shakespeare)
Verb
(en verb)- to salt fish, beef, or pork
- The brine begins to salt .
Antonyms
* (add salt) desaltDerived terms
* desalt * salt awayAnagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----spalt
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(en adjective)- (Halliwell)