salt

sal

Sustancia blanca que se añade a los alimentos para darles sabor o conservarlos más tiempo.

En inglés sencillo: A white substance added to food for taste or to keep it fresh longer.

• Pass the salt, please.
• I added a little salt to the soup.
• Too much salt can make food unpleasant to eat.

Sinónimos: sodium chloride

Expresiones frecuentes: table salt, sea salt, salt and pepper

escepticismo, cautela

En ciertas expresiones, actitud de duda que lleva a no creer todo lo que se oye.

En inglés sencillo: In certain phrases, a doubtful attitude that stops you from believing everything you hear.

• Take that claim with a pinch of salt.
• I took the online reviews with a grain of salt.
• Her predictions should always be taken with a pinch of salt.

Cómo se usa: take something with a grain/pinch of salt (Take his stories with a grain of salt.)

Sinónimos: skepticism, doubt

Antónimos: credulity

Expresiones frecuentes: grain of salt, pinch of salt

sal

Sustancia química que se forma cuando un ácido reacciona con una base.

En inglés sencillo: A chemical substance made when an acid reacts with a base.

• The reaction produced a salt.
• Some salts dissolve easily in water.
• The students made a copper salt in the laboratory.

Expresiones frecuentes: soluble salt, metal salt, salt solution

salado, salino

Que contiene sal, como el agua del mar.

En inglés sencillo: Containing the white substance found in seawater that gives it a strong taste.

• These fish live in salt water.
• The island has several salt lakes.
• Fresh water mixed with salt water near the river mouth.

Sinónimos: salty, saline

Antónimos: fresh

Expresiones frecuentes: salt water, salt lake, salt marsh

salado, en salazón

Dicho de un alimento, conservado con sal para que dure más tiempo.

En inglés sencillo: Preserved with a white, strong-tasting substance so the food can be kept longer.

• We ate salt beef.
• Soak the salt cod before cooking it.
• The sailors carried barrels of salt pork on long voyages.

Sinónimos: salted, salt-cured

Expresiones frecuentes: salt beef, salt pork, salt fish

salar

Poner sal en la comida o echarla en las carreteras para derretir el hielo.

En inglés sencillo: To add a white, strong-tasting substance to food, or spread it on roads to melt ice.

• Salt the water before adding pasta.
• She salted the fish and put it in the oven.
• Workers salted the roads before the snow arrived.

Expresiones frecuentes: salt the water, salt the meat, salt the roads

salpicar, esparcir

Distribuir pequeñas cantidades de algo en distintos puntos de un conjunto mayor.

En inglés sencillo: To put small amounts of something in different places throughout a larger thing.

• She salted the story with jokes.
• The writer salted his essay with references to old films.
• Their conversation was salted with words from several languages.

Cómo se usa: salt something with something (He salted his speech with jokes.)

Sinónimos: sprinkle, scatter, pepper

Expresiones frecuentes: salt with jokes, salt a speech, salt with references

salar

Esparcir sal sobre un lugar destruido como señal de que nadie debe volver a vivir allí.

En inglés sencillo: To spread a white mineral over destroyed land as a sign that nobody should live there again.

• The conquerors salted the land.
• After destroying the town, the army salted its ruins.
• They salted the earth as a warning against rebuilding.

Expresiones frecuentes: salt the earth, salt the land, salt the ruins