(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Salt is a strong-tasting substance, in the form of white powder or crystals, which is used to improve the flavour of food or to preserve it. Salt occurs naturally in sea water.
Season lightly with ~ and pepper.
...a pinch of ~.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
When you ~ food, you add ~ to it.
Salt the stock to your taste and leave it simmering very gently.
VERB: V n
~ed
Put a pan of ~ed water on to boil.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
3.
Salts are substances that are formed when an acid reacts with an alkali.
The rock is rich in mineral ~s.
N-COUNT: usu pl
4.
see also Epsom ~s , smelling ~s
5.
If you take something with a pinch of ~, you do not believe that it is completely accurate or true.
The more miraculous parts of this account should be taken with a pinch of ~.
PHRASE: V inflects
6.
If you say, for example, that any doctor worth his or her ~ would do something, you mean that any doctor who was good at his or her job or who deserved respect would do it.
Any coach worth his ~ would do exactly as I did.
PHRASE: n PHR
7.
If someone or something rubs ~ into the wound, they make the unpleasant situation that you are in even worse, often by reminding you of your failures or faults.
I had no intention of rubbing ~ into a friend’s wounds, so all I said was that I did not give interviews.
PHRASE: V and wound inflect