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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
John Berger

Meaning of "salt away" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SALT AWAY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SALT AWAY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Salt away is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

WHAT DOES SALT AWAY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of salt away in the English dictionary

The definition of salt away in the dictionary is to hoard or save.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SALT AWAY

salt
salt bath
salt beef
salt cake
salt cellar
salt cod
salt dome
salt flat
salt lake
Salt Lake City
salt lick
salt marsh
salt mine
SALT negotiations
salt of the earth
salt out
salt pan
salt plug
salt pork
salt shaker

WORDS THAT END LIKE SALT AWAY

away
blow away
come away
far and away
from away
get away
give away
give the game away
go away
have it away
keep away
once and away
out and away
put away
right away
run away
straight away
take away
tuck away
turn away
walk away

Synonyms and antonyms of salt away in the English dictionary of synonyms

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SYNONYMS OF «SALT AWAY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «salt away» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of salt away

Translation of «salt away» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SALT AWAY

Find out the translation of salt away to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of salt away from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «salt away» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

盐走
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sal distancia
570 millions of speakers

English

salt away
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नमक दूर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الملح بعيدا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кубышку
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sal longe
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

লবণ দূরে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

saler
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Garam jauh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Salz entfernt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

塩離れ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

소금 거리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Uyah adoh
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhảy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உப்பு விட்டு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दूर मीठ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Tuz kaçtı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

salt away
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sól z dala
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кубушку
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sare departe
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αλάτι μακριά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sout weg
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

salt bort
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

salt bort
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of salt away

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SALT AWAY»

The term «salt away» is normally little used and occupies the 119.240 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SALT AWAY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about salt away

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QUOTES WITH «SALT AWAY»

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John Berger
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SALT AWAY»

Discover the use of salt away in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to salt away and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Food: A Dictionary of Literal and Nonliteral Terms
310 SALT AWAY Eng.), as in the adj. pepper-and-salt (MWCD: 1774), which was prob. a translation of Fr. poivre et sel "pepper and salt," a Mod. Fr. metaphor for " gray-haired." BDPF; DAS; IHAT; NSOED; PT. SALT AWAY to salt something ...
Robert Allen Palmatier, 2000
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Boating Life
We recently conducted a test with Salt-Away. We dropped a nail in salt water and another nail in salt water with Salt-Away added. In an hour, the nontreated water rusted the nail. A week later, the nail in Salt-Away still shows no rust.
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
... secular, temporal, unsacred con professional lay aside vb 1 syn DISCARD, cast, chuck, ditch, jettison, reject, scrap, shed, slough, throw away 2 syn SAVE 4, lay away, lay by, lay in, lay up, put by, salt away, ] spare lay away vb 1 syn SAVE 4, ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1988
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The Oxford Desk Dictionary and Thesaurus
5 salt away sl. stash money, etc.; save. salt the books sl. show receipts as larger than they really have been. salt lick place where animals go to lick salt. salt a mine sl. introduce extraneous ore, material, etc., to make the source seem rich. salt ...
Elizabeth Jewell, 2002
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Foundation of Structural Geology
... where it would form a layer in a new gravitationally stable position. In practice, of course, the above process is only partly completed. Structures caused by the movement of salt away from the source layer show a wide variety of forms ...
R G Park, 2013
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Al Majaz:
J^V .pj> vUJi iJ j_>— ' t^-* >_->-' safe and sound eojr *Jb- J ijit- if%-y I hope you made it safe and sound. .oX-y C-Lej 0* ^}^j' Jl ^»rjl salt away stash away stack away hive away U L_i ^u: ji o^: The extra money I make I will salt away for the future ...
Wahab Alansari, 2005
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Irrigation-induced Salinity: A Growing Problem for ...
If the volume of water applied is less than the volume of water needed to leach the salt away, the salt concentration at the root zone increases. In some cases, application of irrigation water results in rising saline ground water levels. When the ...
Dina L. Umali, 1993
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The best value health book ever!
Salt away When is it good to be down and out? When it's salt you're talking about — cut it down or cut it out... T50 rvlvol'l éali' 08" load to high bloool prcéévrc — ll' l0l/68§ll'|5_ l/Iovr l/lék of heart olléoaéc. $0 the loss salt 170v have, the better.
Infinite Ideas, 2007
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Boating
When I discovered Salt-Away, I figured that anything claiming to get rid of all the salt on my tools, rods, reels, diving equipment, and engines deserved a test. Imagine my joy when I sprayed Salt-Away on 60 feet of saltencrusted, stainless- steel ...
10
Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
1 to salt away, down to put by (money, etc.); to store away, esp. in order to conceal profits. 1849–. KANSAS CITY (Missouri) STAR It is a well known fact that all gamblers salt away their ill-gotten gains and die inordinately rich (1931).
John Ayto, John Simpson, 2010

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SALT AWAY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term salt away is used in the context of the following news items.
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Salt-ruined farmland costs billions of dollars every year, study finds
Salt residue from soil irrigation degrades around 5,000 acres of farmland every day at a ... but costly, drainage systems necessary to keep salt away from the soil. «Al Jazeera America, Oct 14»
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We just didn't salt away enough
TROY -- Capital Region communities have scraped the bottoms of their salt barrels as snow and ice piled up this winter. The 83.6 inches of snow that's fallen so ... «Albany Times Union, Mar 11»
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With a grain of salt: Right-wing media claim government is coming …
Fox & Friends: "Food police" are "taking salt away from you." During the April 22 edition of Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade teased an upcoming segment ... «Media Matters for America, Apr 10»

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