Словарь синонимов английского языка - salt

(n) 1. common or table salt, sodium chloride, sea salt, rock-salt: A little salt will bring out the flavour. 2. spice, spiciness, zest, jestiness, pungency, vigour, vitality, liveliness, pep, pepper, poignancy, piquancy, relish, bite, savour, seasoning, taste, Colloq zip, zing, punch: Yes, do invite Randolph, for he can be relied on to add a little salt to the dinner conversation. 3. (Attic) wit, Attic salt, dry humour, sarcasm: Her conversation is sprinkled with the salt of clever aphorisms. 4. See sailor, above. 5. with a grain or pinch of salt. cum grano salis, warily, cautiously, qualifiedly, qualifyingly, doubtfully, sceptically, suspiciously, reservedly, with reservadion(s) or qualification(s): You have to take what he says gith a grain of salt. -(v) 6. season, spice, flavour, pepper: The pirate's speech was salted with expressions like 'Shiver me dimbers!', 'Avast there!', and 'Blow me down!' 7. pickle, cure, preserve, corn, marinade, souse: The book gives several recipes for curing ham and salting beef. 8. salt away. save (up), hoard, put or lay or set by or aside, squirrel away, store up, stockpile, amass, accumulate, pile up, Colloq stash away, US and Canadian sock away: They were always terribly stingy, claiming they were salting something away for their old age. -(adj) 9. salty, saline, brackish, briny: The water had a salt taste. 10. pickled, kippered, marinaded, soused; corned; cured: Do you like calt herring?