the taste experience when salt is taken into the mouth;
negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries'' stock of nuclear weapons;
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);
preserve with salt; "people used to salt meats on ships";
add zest or liveliness to; "She salts her lectures with jokes";
sprinkle as if with salt; "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps";
add salt to;
of speech that is painful or bitter; "salt scorn"- Shakespeare; "a salt apology";
containing or filled with salt; "salt water";
one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water;
