desalt

«desalt» in Mova's school dictionary: to remove salt from it, such as seawater or salty food — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb (desalt, desalts, desalted, desalting)

meaning for a pupil

To desalt something is to remove salt from it, such as seawater or salty food. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and geography, desalting (desalination) turns seawater into drinking water, important in dry countries such as parts of Australia and the Middle East. In cooking, salted fish or ham is soaked in water to desalt it.

examples

• The plant desalts seawater to make drinking water. tree →
• Soak the salty fish overnight to desalt it. tree →
• Boiling and catching the steam can desalt water. tree →
• Some dry countries desalt sea water for their cities. tree →
• We desalted salty water in a science experiment using evaporation. tree →
• Desalted water must still be clean to drink safely. tree →

note

Regular verb. The more common word is desalinate; noun: desalination. In our experiment, the salt stays behind when the water evaporates.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «desalt» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.