salt

«salt» in Mova's school dictionary: white grains that make food taste salty — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (salt, salts); verb (salt, salts, salted, salting); adjective (salt — salty)

meaning for a pupil

1) Salt is white grains that make food taste salty. It comes from the sea or from rock in the ground. tree →

2) To salt is to put salt on food, or on roads to melt ice. tree →

3) In science, a salt is a chemical made when an acid and a base react; table salt is sodium chloride. tree →

4) «Take it with a pinch of salt» means do not believe it fully. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths: a small amount in a recipe (teaspoons, grams); bags of salt; salt per liter of seawater, a rate. In science: salt dissolves in water; evaporating seawater leaves salt; salt lowers the freezing point of water, so it melts ice on roads. In health: too much salt is bad for you. In stories: «worth his salt» means good at his job.

examples

• The recipe needs 2 teaspoons of salt. tree →
• A bag holds 1 kg of salt. tree →
• How much salt for 3 batches? tree →
• Seawater has 35 grams of salt in each liter. tree →
• Salt dissolves when you stir it into water. tree →
• Trucks put salt on the roads to melt the ice. tree →
• Leave salty water in the sun and the salt is left behind. tree →
• Too much salt is not good for your heart. tree →
• Take what you read online with a pinch of salt. tree →

note

An amount, often per batch or per liter, a rate. Trap: none. Uncountable in cooking: «some salt», «a pinch of salt». When salt dissolves it seems to disappear, but it is still in the water (taste it or evaporate it to see). Salt water and fresh water are different: you cannot drink seawater.

In the corpora

• Tablets, less salt and more exercise can lower high blood pressure, and measuring it only feels like a tight squeeze.
• Elephants use their tusks to dig for water and salt, strip bark, move things and defend themselves.
• The large intestine soaks up water and salts from what is left, and its bacteria break down some of the fibre.
• Sea tanks are made with special salt mixed into clean water and tested every day, and big filters clean the water like kidneys.
• Penguins can drink sea water, because a special gland above the eyes removes extra salt, which drips out from the beak.

Trees and pragmatics

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