Oil vs. Salt
Difference Between Oil and Salt
Oilnoun
Any of numerous mineral, vegetable, or synthetic substances or animal or vegetable fats that are generally slippery, combustible, viscous, liquid or liquefiable at room temperatures, soluble in various organic solvents such as ether but not in water, and used in a great variety of products, especially lubricants and fuels.
Saltnoun
A usually whitish crystalline solid, chiefly sodium chloride, used extensively in ground or granulated form as a food seasoning and preservative. Also called common salt, table salt.
Oilnoun
Petroleum.
Saltnoun
An ionic chemical compound formed by replacing all or part of the hydrogen ions of an acid with metal ions or other cations.
Oilnoun
A petroleum derivative, such as a machine oil or lubricant.
Saltnoun
salts Any of various mineral salts used as laxatives or cathartics.
Oilnoun
A protective or cosmetic liquid applied to the skin or hair.
Saltnoun
salts Smelling salts.
Oilnoun
Oil paint.
Saltnoun
often salts Epsom salts.
Oilnoun
A painting done in oil paint.
Saltnoun
An element that gives flavor or zest.
Oilverb
To lubricate, supply, cover, or polish with oil.
Saltnoun
Sharp lively wit.
Oilnoun
Liquid fat.
Saltnoun
(Informal) A sailor, especially when old or experienced.
Oilnoun
Petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant.
Saltnoun
A saltcellar.
Oilnoun
An oil painting.
Saltadjective
Containing or filled with salt
a salt spray.salt tears.Oilverb
(transitive) To lubricate with oil.
Saltadjective
Having a salty taste or smell
breathed the salt air.Oilverb
(transitive) To grease with oil for cooking.
Saltadjective
Preserved in salt or a salt solution
salt mackerel.Oilnoun
a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water
Saltadjective
Flooded with seawater.
Oilnoun
oil paint used by an artist
Saltadjective
Found in or near such a flooded area
salt grasses.Oilnoun
any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants
Saltverb
To add, treat, season, or sprinkle with salt.
Oilverb
cover with oil, as if by rubbing;
oil the wooden surfaceSaltverb
To cure or preserve by treating with salt or a salt solution.
Oilverb
administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing
Saltverb
To provide salt for (deer or cattle).
Saltverb
To add zest or liveliness to
salt a lecture with anecdotes.Saltverb
To give an appearance of value to by fraudulent means, especially to place valuable minerals in (a mine) for the purpose of deceiving.
Saltnoun
A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
Saltnoun
(chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
Saltnoun
(uncommon) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
Saltnoun
(slang) A sailor also old salt.
Saltnoun
(cryptography) Randomly chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting or hashing it, in order to render brute-force decryption more difficult.
Saltnoun
A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
Saltnoun
(obsolete) Flavour; taste; seasoning.
Saltnoun
(obsolete) Piquancy; wit; sense.
Attic saltSaltnoun
(obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
Saltnoun
(figurative) Skepticism and common sense.
Any politician's statements must be taken with a grain of salt, but his need to be taken with a whole shaker of salt.Saltnoun
(Internet slang) Indignation; outrage; arguing.
There was so much salt in that thread about the poor casting decision.Saltadjective
Salty; salted.
salt beef;salt tearsSaltadjective
Saline.
a salt marsh;salt grassSaltadjective
Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
a salt mineThe salt factory is a key connecting element in the seawater infrastructure.Saltadjective
Bitter; sharp; pungent.
Saltadjective
Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.
Saltverb
(transitive) To add salt to.
to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winterSaltverb
(intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.
The brine begins to salt.Saltverb
To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
Saltverb
To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
Saltverb
(mining) To blast metal into as a portion of a mine in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
Saltverb
(archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archeological site.
Saltverb
To include colorful language in.
Saltverb
(cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
Saltnoun
a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
Saltnoun
white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
Saltnoun
negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons
Saltnoun
the taste experience when salt is taken into the mouth
Saltverb
add salt to
Saltverb
sprinkle as if with salt;
the rebels had salted the fields with mines and trapsSaltverb
add zest or liveliness to;
She salts her lectures with jokesSaltverb
preserve with salt;
people used to salt meats on shipsSaltadjective
containing or filled with salt;
salt waterSaltadjective
of speech that is painful or bitter;
salt scorna salt apologySaltadjective
one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water
