salt shaker

/'sɔ:lt,ʃeikə/

Thân thiện

A chef sprinkles salt from a salt shaker onto a dish.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A container for dispensing salt: A small container, typically with a perforated top, designed to hold and allow the sprinkling of table salt.

Examples

• Noun:
  • Please pass the salt shaker.
  • She refilled the salt shaker from the larger box.
  • The salt shaker on the table was made of glass.

Advanced Usage

• "To be worth one's salt": This idiom, while not directly about the object, historically relates to salt as a valuable commodity. It means to be competent and deserving of one's pay or position.
  • Any manager worth their salt would have handled the crisis better.

Variants and Related Words

• Salt cellar: (chiefly British) A small dish or container for holding salt at the table, often without a perforated top.
• Pepper shaker: A similar container with a perforated top, specifically designed for ground pepper. Often part of a matching set with a salt shaker.

Synonyms

• Salt cellar (in some contexts, though this often implies an open dish).

Related Phrases

• "Pass the salt": A common mealtime request where the "salt" is understood to be in its shaker.
  • During dinner, he asked, "Could you pass the salt?"

Học thuật

Noun

1. a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling salt

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