SALT

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salt I. substantiv

1. sare (de bucătărie), clorură de sodiu;

common / culinary salt sare de bucătărie;

table salt sare de masă;

cake of salt bulgăre de sare;

meat in salt carne sărată / conservată, pastramă;

to eat salt with smb. a mânca pâine şi sare cu cineva, a împărţi pâinea cu cineva;

to eat smb’s salt a fi oaspetele cuiva, a se bucura de ospitalitatea cuiva;

to be true to one’s salt a fi loial faţă de stăpân, a fi credincios serviciului său;

(fig.) to take a story with a grain / a pinch of salt a crede o poveste cu anumite rezerve, a nu lua ceva drept literă de evanghelie;

he is not worth / doesn't fetch his salt nu e vrednic de pâinea pe care o mănâncă;

(glumeţ)to put / lay / cast salt the tail of a bird a pune sare pe coada unei păsări (pentru ca s-o prinzi);

the salt of the earth sarea pământului, floarea omenirii, cei mai buni oameni;

conversation full of salt conversaţie plină de haz / sărată;

above the salt în capul mesei;

below / beneath the salt în coada mesei (şi fig.).

2. vorbă de spirit.

3. (chim.) sare.

4. plural (med.) (şi smelling salts) săruri.

◊ (fam. fig.) old salt lup de mare, marinar bătrân.

salt II. adjectiv

1. sărat;

salt water apă sărată;

salt meat pastramă, carne conservată;

salt provisions alimente sărate / conservate;

to weep salt tears a plânge lacrimi amare.

2. (fig., despre spirit) ascuţit, muşcător, usturător, corosiv.

3. (despre povestiri) a) nostim, picant; b) piperat, fără perdea.

4. (fam., despre preţuri) sărat, piperat.

5. (despre plante) marin, care creşte în ape sărate / saline;

(amer.) salt grass iarbă de pe locurile udate de apa sărată a mării.

salt III. verb tranzitiv

1. a săra;

to salt (down) meat etc. a săra, a pune (carne etc.) la sare / sărat.

2. (amer. fam.) to salt smb. a-i trage cuiva o săpuneală; a spăla pe cap pe cineva.

3. a presăra / a pudra cu sare; a săra, a asezona (o mâncare).

4. (com. fam.) a încărca (nota de plată, socoteala).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

They take him across the salt lake which is big as the sky.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I shall have to leave you in this room with this gentleman, for an hour, or perhaps two hours: you will sponge the blood as I do when it returns: if he feels faint, you will put the glass of water on that stand to his lips, and your salts to his nose.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

"Go to him, go to him," cried Anne, "for heaven's sake go to him. I can support her myself. Leave me, and go to him. Rub her hands, rub her temples; here are salts; take them, take them."

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Now a person wouldn't think it, fur to see this little thing alongside a rough-weather chap like me, said Mr. Peggotty, looking round at both of us, with infinite pride; but the sea ain't more salt in it than she has fondness in her for her uncle—a foolish little Em'ly!

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

As you may think, it was towards my father’s profession that my thoughts and my hopes turned, for from my childhood I have never seen the heave of the sea or tasted the salt upon my lips without feeling the blood of five generations of seamen thrill within my veins.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The original link found between high salt diets and brain blood flow was a decrease in the production of nitric oxide (NO) in cells making up blood vessels in the brain, caused by a reduction in the function of the enzyme eNOS.

(Pathogenic tau and cognitive impairment are precipitated by a high-salt diet, National Institutes of Health)

The lead salts used to make them are much more abundant and cheaper to produce than crystalline silicon, and they can be prepared in a liquid ink that is simply printed to produce a film of the material.

(‘Messy’ production of perovskite material increases solar cell efficiency, University of Cambridge)

"And always did he remember the salt lake as big as the sky and the country under the sun where there is no snow," quoth Zilla.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

Have you any salts—volatile salts?

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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