salted
/'sɔ:ltid/
Definition
- Adjective:
- Preserved or treated with salt: Describes food, especially meat or fish, that has been cured, seasoned, or preserved by the addition of salt.
- Seasoned or experienced (informal): Used figuratively to describe a person who is experienced, hardened, or seasoned, particularly through difficult or challenging situations.
Usage and Examples
Adjective (Preserved with salt):
- We bought some salted peanuts for the party.
- Traditionally, salted cod was a staple food for long sea voyages.
- The recipe calls for two tablespoons of salted butter.
Adjective (Experienced - informal):
- After twenty years as a war correspondent, she was a salted journalist, unfazed by chaos.
- He's a salted veteran of the industry, having seen many market crashes.
Advanced Usage
- "Salted away": This is a phrasal verb (to salt away) meaning to save or store something, especially money, secretly for future use. It is related to the idea of preserving.
- They had salted away a small fortune for their retirement.
Variants and Related Words
- Salt (n/v): The mineral or the act of adding it.
- Salty (adj): Tasting of or containing salt; (slang) irritated or resentful.
- Salt-cured (adj): A synonym specifically for food preserved in salt.
Synonyms
- Cured: (for food) Preserved, especially by salting, smoking, or drying.
- Seasoned: (for people) Experienced, hardened, or veteran.
Related Idioms and Phrases
- To salt the earth: To make land barren, originating from the ancient practice of spreading salt on conquered cities' farmland to prevent future growth.
- To be worth one's salt: To be competent and deserving of one's pay. (This idiom uses "salt" in the historical sense of salary, from the Latin .)
- Any engineer worth his salt could fix this problem.
Adjective
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(used especially of meats) preserved in salt
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