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  1. noun A colorless or white crystalline solid, chiefly sodium chloride, used extensively in ground or granulated form as a food seasoning and preservative. Also called common salt, table salt.
  2. noun A chemical compound formed by replacing all or part of the hydrogen ions of an acid with metal ions or electropositive radicals.
  3. noun Any of various mineral salts used as laxatives or cathartics.

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  • I'm an Orioles fan and any Orioles fan worth his or her salt is also a Nationals fan. —  Bugs & Cranks
  • So that others don't make the same mistakes, they've released their top five no-no's for email marketing, although I have to say, they seem to me rather rudimentary elements of email marketing that any marketer worth his or her salt should be aware of. —  BizReport
  • Any theater person worth his or her salt should be a kind of trailblazer instead. —  The Spy in the Sandwich Eats the Sun
  • This salt is then used to create steam which drives a turbine to produce electricity. —  Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed
  • "The ultimate goal of any lawyer worth his salt is to be a judge," attorney —  The Memphis Daily News
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old English sealt; see sal- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. I. n. from Middle English salt, sealt, from Anglo-Saxon sealt = Old Saxon salt = Middle Dutch sout, Dutch zout = Middle Low German salt, solt, Low German solt = Old High German Middle High German G. salz = Icelandic salt = Swedish Danish salt = Gothic (Moesogothic) salt = Welsh hallt (Lapp. sallte, from Scandinavian), salt; apparently with the formative -t of the adjective form. II. a. from Middle English salt, from Anglo-Saxon sealt = OFries. salt = Middle Low German solt = Icelandic saltr = Swedish Danish salt, salt, = Latin salsus, salted. The name in other tongues is of a simpler type: L. sal (later Italian sale = Spanish Portuguese Provencal sal = French sel) = Greek ἅλς = Old Bulgarian solĭ = Servian Polish sol = Bohemian sůl = Russian solĭ = Lettish sāls = Welsh hal, halen = Old Irish salan, salt. Hence, from the L. form, sal, salad, salary, saline, salmagundi, seller (salt-cellar), saltpeter, sauce, sausage, souse, etc.
  2. from Middle English salten, also selten, silten, from Anglo-Saxon *sealtian, also syltan = Dutch zouten = Middle Low German solten = Old High German salzan, Middle High German G. salzen = Icelandic Swedish salta = Danish salte = Gothic (Moesogothic) saltan (cf. Latin salire, salere, sallere), salt; from the noun: see salt, n.
 

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