salted

/'sɔ:ltid/

Thân thiện

The chef carefully salted the fresh fish before cooking.

Definition

1. 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.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. (used especially of meats) preserved in salt

Từ đồng nghĩa

• salt-cured
• brine-cured