English

Verb form

1. present participle of salt

Noun

1. the act of sprinkling salt, either on food, or on an icy road
2. a salt marsh

Derived terms

• salting out

• Salting (food), the preparation of food with edible salt for conservation or taste
• Salting (cryptography), a method to secure passwords
• Salting the earth, the military practice of spreading salt on fields to make them unusable for crop-growing
• Salting out, a method of separating proteins using salt
• The application of salt to roads in winter to act as a de-icer
• A kind of confidence trick in which valuable resources are scattered on a piece of property to be "discovered" by a prospective buyer
• Allowing a horse to catch the nagana disease, so that after recovery the horse can be used in infected areas
• Salting mailing lists, including fictitious entries in mailing lists to detect misuse

See also

• Salt (disambiguation)