salt

sel

Substance blanche ajoutée aux aliments pour leur donner du goût ou les conserver plus longtemps.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : sodium chloride

Expressions courantes : table salt, sea salt, salt and pepper

scepticisme, réserve

Dans certaines expressions, attitude qui consiste à garder des doutes sur ce qu'on entend.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : take something with a grain/pinch of salt (Take his stories with a grain of salt.)

Synonymes : skepticism, doubt

Contraires : credulity

Expressions courantes : grain of salt, pinch of salt

sel

Substance chimique formée par la réaction d'un acide avec une base.

En anglais simple : 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.

Expressions courantes : soluble salt, metal salt, salt solution

salé, salin

Qui contient du sel, comme l'eau de mer.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : salty, saline

Contraires : fresh

Expressions courantes : salt water, salt lake, salt marsh

salé

Se dit d'un aliment conservé avec du sel pour qu'il se garde plus longtemps.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : salted, salt-cured

Expressions courantes : salt beef, salt pork, salt fish

saler

Ajouter du sel aux aliments ou en répandre sur les routes pour faire fondre la glace.

En anglais simple : 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.

Expressions courantes : salt the water, salt the meat, salt the roads

parsemer, émailler

Répartir de petites quantités de quelque chose à différents endroits dans un ensemble plus grand.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : salt something with something (He salted his speech with jokes.)

Synonymes : sprinkle, scatter, pepper

Expressions courantes : salt with jokes, salt a speech, salt with references

saler

Répandre du sel sur un lieu détruit pour signifier que personne ne doit plus y vivre.

En anglais simple : 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.

Expressions courantes : salt the earth, salt the land, salt the ruins