📖 S — The English dictionary · page 4

sale — Everyday, meaning 1: A sale is selling something: the sale of a house.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A sale is a time when things cost less than usual: a summer sale.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «For sale» means someone wants to sell it.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «On sale» means it can be bought, or (USA) that it is cheaper than usual.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Sales are the number of things sold, or the money from them.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: A bake sale or yard sale is an event to sell things.↗ Example: Shirts are on sale for $5 off.↗ · The bake sale made $120.↗ · During the sale, prices are 20% less.↗ · How many tickets were sold at the sale?↗ · Our class had a bake sale for charity.↗ · The house next door is for sale.↗ · Tickets go on sale on Monday.↗ · Sales of ice cream go up in summer.↗ · We sold old toys at a yard sale.↗ · "It's not for sale, my good man."↗ · then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return unto his possession.↗ (Torah LEV.25.27, JPS 1917)↗

salesman — Everyday, meaning 1: A salesman is a man whose job is selling things, in a shop, by phone or by visiting people.↗ Example: The car salesman showed us a red car.↗ · A salesman knocked on the door selling brushes.↗ · The salesman earns $50 for every TV he sells.↗ · My uncle is a salesman for a toy company.↗ · The salesman sold 12 phones on Monday and 15 on Tuesday.↗ · Don't let a pushy salesman rush you.↗

saline — Everyday, meaning 1: Saline means containing salt or salty.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Saline (noun), or saline solution, is clean salty water used in medicine, for example to wash wounds, rinse eyes or contact lenses, or in a drip in hospital.↗ Example: Seawater is saline, so you cannot drink it.↗ · The nurse cleaned the cut with saline.↗ · He rinses his contact lenses in saline solution.↗ · In hospital she was given a saline drip.↗ · The Dead Sea is a very saline lake.↗ · We made a saline solution by dissolving salt in water.↗ · Saline nose spray helps clear a blocked nose.↗

salinity — Everyday, meaning 1: Salinity is how salty water or soil is: how much salt is dissolved in it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) It is measured as the amount of salt in a certain amount of water, for example grams per litre or parts per thousand.↗ Example: The salinity of the ocean is about 35 grams of salt in every litre.↗ · The Dead Sea has such high salinity that people float easily.↗ · Rivers have very low salinity, so their water is called fresh water.↗ · We tested the salinity of three water samples in class.↗ · Where rivers meet the sea, the salinity is in between.↗ · High salinity in the soil made the wheat grow badly.↗ · Some fish, like salmon, can cope with changes in salinity.↗

saliva — Everyday, meaning 1: Saliva is the clear watery liquid that is made in your mouth; it keeps your mouth wet and helps you chew, swallow and start digesting food.↗ Example: Saliva helps you swallow food.↗ · Your mouth makes saliva all day.↗ · Smelling cookies made my mouth fill with saliva.↗ · Saliva starts to digest food in your mouth.↗ · Saliva helps protect your teeth from acid.↗ · Dogs drool a lot of saliva when they're hot.↗ · Spitting saliva at people spreads germs and is rude.↗ · Doctors can test saliva to look for some illnesses.↗ · Then suddenly the warrior remembered that he had heard that human saliva was deadly to centipedes.↗

sallow — Everyday, meaning 1: Of skin, yellowish and pale, often looking unwell.↗ Example: She had a sallow face after the long winter.↗ · The girls had long faces and sallow complexions.↗ · His sallow skin showed he was ill.↗

sally — Everyday, meaning 1: (a name) Sally is a girl's name.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old, war) A sally is a sudden attack by soldiers rushing out from a castle or town that is under siege.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (literary) A sally is a quick, witty remark.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) To sally forth is to set out boldly, often jokingly.↗ Example: Sally is my best friend.↗ · The knights made a sally from the castle.↗ · We sallied forth to the shops.↗ · His sally made everyone laugh.↗ · The sally port was a small castle door.↗ · Sally walked her dog in the park.↗ · ‘Wasp’s-nest, Wasp’s-nest, make a sally, Or Drakestail nevermore may rally.’↗

salmon — Everyday, meaning 1: A salmon is a large silver fish that lives in the sea but swims up rivers to lay its eggs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Salmon is the pink flesh of this fish eaten as food.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Salmon (or salmon pink) is an orange-pink colour.↗ Example: Salmon swim up the river to lay their eggs.↗ · Bears catch salmon as they jump up the waterfall.↗ · We had grilled salmon for dinner.↗ · Smoked salmon is good on toast.↗ · The salmon's flesh is pink.↗ · Her dress was salmon pink.↗ · At this moment a fine salmon swam slowly up.↗ · and Amminadab begot Nahshon, and Nahshon begot Salmon; (Writings RUT.4.20, JPS 1917)↗ · and Salmon begot Boaz, and Boaz begot Obed; (Writings RUT.4.21, JPS 1917)↗

salmonella — Everyday, meaning 1: A kind of bacteria that can cause food poisoning, with stomach ache, being sick, diarrhoea and fever.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The illness caused by these bacteria (often called salmonella or food poisoning).↗ Example: Salmonella is a germ that can give you food poisoning.↗ · Always cook chicken all the way through to kill salmonella.↗ · Don't eat raw cake mix — raw eggs can carry salmonella.↗ · Wash your hands after touching raw meat.↗ · Pet turtles can carry salmonella, so wash your hands after holding them.↗ · Use a different chopping board for raw meat.↗

salon — Everyday, meaning 1: A salon is a shop where people go to have their hair cut or styled, their nails done or their skin treated.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old-fashioned, formal) A salon is an elegant sitting room in a big house where guests are received.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (history) A salon was a meeting of writers, artists and thinkers at a rich person's home, especially in France.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A salon can be an art exhibition, as in the famous Paris Salon.↗ Example: Mum has an appointment at the hair salon on Saturday.↗ · The salon smelled of shampoo and hair spray.↗ · My big sister works in a nail salon.↗ · The guests waited in the grand salon of the palace.↗ · In old Paris, rich women held salons where writers shared ideas.↗ · The painting was shown at the Paris Salon.↗ · The salon was busy before the school dance.↗

saloon — Everyday, meaning 1: A large, grand room in an old house or palace, used for receiving guests or holding gatherings.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (American) A bar where drinks were sold in old Western films.↗ Example: Did the gods pass through the large saloons?↗ · The king gave a feast in the saloon.↗ · The big saloon was empty and quiet.↗

salsa — Everyday, meaning 1: Salsa is a sauce, often spicy, made from chopped tomatoes, onions, chillies and herbs, eaten with tortilla chips and Mexican food.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Salsa is a lively dance and a kind of music from Latin America and the Caribbean, especially Cuba and Puerto Rico.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In Spanish and Italian, «salsa» simply means sauce.↗ Example: We dipped tortilla chips in tomato salsa.↗ · This mango salsa is sweet and spicy.↗ · Mum goes to salsa classes on Thursdays.↗ · Salsa music has a fast, bouncy beat.↗ · Chop the tomatoes carefully when making salsa.↗ · Add a little lime juice to the salsa.↗ · They danced salsa at the wedding.↗

salt — Everyday, meaning 1: Salt is white grains that make food taste salty.↗ It comes from the sea or from rock in the ground.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To salt is to put salt on food, or on roads to melt ice.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In science, a salt is a chemical made when an acid and a base react; table salt is sodium chloride.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Take it with a pinch of salt» means do not believe it fully.↗ Example: The recipe needs 2 teaspoons of salt.↗ · A bag holds 1 kg of salt.↗ · How much salt for 3 batches?↗ · Seawater has 35 grams of salt in each liter.↗ · Salt dissolves when you stir it into water.↗ · Trucks put salt on the roads to melt the ice.↗ · Leave salty water in the sun and the salt is left behind.↗ · Too much salt is not good for your heart.↗ · Take what you read online with a pinch of salt.↗ · But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.↗ (Torah GEN.19.26, JPS 1917)↗ · All these came as allies unto the vale of Siddim — the same is the Salt Sea.↗ (Torah GEN.14.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt make of it incense, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.↗ (Torah EXO.30.35, JPS 1917)↗ · Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling-place.↗ (Writings JOB.39.6, JPS 1917)↗ · and Nibshan, and the City of Salt, and En-gedi; six cities with their villages.↗ (Prophets JOS.15.62, JPS 1917)↗ · They pluck salt-wort with wormwood; and the roots of the broom are their food.↗ (Writings JOB.30.4, JPS 1917)↗

saltiness — Everyday, meaning 1: Saltiness is how salty something tastes or is.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It can also mean how much salt is in water, like the saltiness of the sea.↗ Example: The chef tasted the soup to check its saltiness.↗ · I could taste the saltiness of the sea on my lips.↗ · Crisps have a lot of saltiness.↗ · The saltiness of the Dead Sea makes people float.↗ · Saltiness is one of the five basic tastes.↗ · Add lemon to balance the saltiness.↗ · Scientists measure the saltiness of ocean water.↗

saltwater — Everyday, meaning 1: Water that has salt in it, like sea water.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Living in or coming from the sea, not fresh water: saltwater fish, saltwater crocodile.↗ Example: Most of the water on Earth is saltwater.↗ · Saltwater fish cannot live in a pond.↗ · An egg floats in salt water but sinks in tap water.↗ · Saltwater crocodiles live in northern Australia; never swim where there are croc signs.↗ · Don't drink saltwater, as it makes you thirstier.↗ · We gargled warm salt water for a sore throat.↗

salty — Everyday, meaning 1: Salty means tasting of salt or having salt in it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Salty (informal) can mean a bit rude or cross: a salty reply.↗ Example: She bought 3 bags of salty chips.↗ · The salty snacks cost $2 each.↗ · The sea is salty.↗ · He drank 2 glasses of water after the salty soup.↗ · Salty food makes you thirsty.↗ · An egg floats in very salty water but sinks in fresh water.↗ · We smelled the salty sea air.↗ · The chips were too salty to eat.↗ · Tears taste a little salty.↗ · He blinked his eyes hard to keep out the salty perspiration streaming down his face.↗

salutation — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) A salutation is a greeting, a word or action that says hello, such as "Good morning" or a wave.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In a letter or email, the salutation is the greeting at the start, like "Dear Sam,".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) "Salutations!" can be said as a jokey, old-fashioned "hello".↗ Example: Start your letter with a salutation such as "Dear Aunt Jo,".↗ · He raised his hat in salutation.↗ · "Salutations!" said Charlotte the spider to Wilbur.↗ · The salutation in a formal letter is often "Dear Sir or Madam".↗ · Underline the salutation in this letter.↗ · A wave is a friendly salutation.↗ · The knights bowed to the king in salutation.↗ · “Peace be upon you,” said the king, giving the usual country salutation.↗

salute — Everyday, meaning 1: To salute means to raise your right hand to your forehead as a sign of respect, as soldiers do.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A salute is that movement, or another sign of respect such as guns fired into the air.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To salute someone means to praise them openly for something brave or good.↗ e.g. "we salute our volunteers".↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (formal) To salute can mean to greet someone.↗ Example: The soldier saluted the general.↗ · The scouts saluted the flag at the start of the meeting.↗ · The captain returned the salute.↗ · Guns were fired as a salute to the king.↗ · We salute all the nurses who worked so hard.↗ · You finished the whole marathon?↗ I salute you!↗ · He gave a smart salute and marched away.↗ · Before starting your performance, salute your audience!”↗ · And they will salute thee, and give thee two cakes of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hand.↗ (Prophets 1SA.10.4, JPS 1917)↗ · But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying: 'Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he flew upon them.↗ (Prophets 1SA.25.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And it came to pass that, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt-offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him.↗ (Prophets 1SA.13.10, JPS 1917)↗

salvation — Everyday, meaning 1: (church) Salvation is being saved from sin and its results; Christians believe Jesus brings salvation, so that people can be close to God for ever.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Salvation is anything that saves you from danger, trouble or failure, as in "The bus was my salvation in the rain.".↗ Example: Christians believe Jesus came to bring salvation.↗ · The Salvation Army band played carols in the town square.↗ · The lifeboat was the sailors' salvation.↗ · That library was my salvation on rainy days.↗ · The sermon was about God's gift of salvation.↗ · A cold drink was salvation after the long hike.↗ · She carries the banner in front of the combating army, and brings victory and salvation to her fatherland.↗ · I wait for Thy salvation, O Lord.↗ (Torah GEN.49.18, JPS 1917)↗ · The LORD is my strength and song, and He is become my salvation; this is my God, and I will glorify Him; my father's God, and I will exalt Him.↗ (Torah EXO.15.2, JPS 1917)↗ · But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked — thou didst wax fat, thou didst grow thick, thou didst become gross — and he forsook God who made him, and contemned the Rock of his salvation.↗ (Torah DEU.32.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Make haste to help me, O LORD, my salvation.↗ (Writings PSA.38.23, JPS 1917)↗ · Salvation belongeth unto the LORD; Thy blessing be upon Thy people.↗ (Writings PSA.3.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion!↗ (Writings PSA.14.7, JPS 1917)↗