What does Salty mean?

Definitions for Salty
ˈsɔl tisalty

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. piquant, saltyadjective

    engagingly stimulating or provocative

    "a piquant wit"; "salty language"

  2. saltyadjective

    containing or filled with salt

    "salt water"

  3. saltyadjective

    one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water

GCIDE

  1. Saltyadjective

    Interesting and witty; piquant; -- of discourse.

  2. Saltyadjective

    Racy; sexually suggestive; -- of discourse.

Wiktionary

  1. saltyadjective

    Tasting of salt.

  2. saltyadjective

    Containing salt.

  3. saltyadjective

    Coarse, provocative, earthy; said of language.

  4. saltyadjective

    Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).

  5. saltyadjective

    Irritated, annoyed; from sharp, spicy flavor of salt.

  6. saltyadjective

    Pertaining to those dialects of Catalan, spoken in the Balearic Islands and along the coast of Catalonia, that use definitive articles descended from the Latin instead of the Latin .

ChatGPT

  1. salty

    Salty generally refers to the taste that is one of the basic senses and is often associated with food that contains high levels of salt. It is also used metaphorically in slang to describe a person who is agitated, upset, or bitter, usually due to insult or injury to their pride.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Saltyadjective

    somewhat salt; saltish

Wikidata

  1. Salty

    Salty is the second album by The Mutton Birds. "Anchor Me" reached the top 10 in the New Zealand singles chart.

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Anagrams for Salty »

  1. slaty

  2. lasty

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Salty in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Salty in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Salty in a Sentence

  1. Bonnie Baxter:

    You’ve got the lake shrinking, the habitat is drying up and what water is remaining is too salty for (algae and microbes) to survive.

  2. Jeff Wright:

    We've worked on extracted human teeth in what we've describe as an artificial mouth. So we've mimicked the salty, saline conditions of the mouth where we carry out the research. We think this is the best way to have a smooth transfer into real patients and real mouths.

  3. Shigeru Kaneko:

    The soup in Kanto is kind of black. That's normal for me, but my Kansai friends were surprised when they saw the color. They said it looked salty.

  4. John Zhu:

    Water is just like wine, the sources and minerals determine the taste, if the water has a lot of calcium, it tastes sweet and chalky. If it's rich in magnesium, it tastes metallic. If it contains sodium, it tastes salty.

  5. The Florida Fish:

    Because K. brevis cannot tolerate low-salinity waters for very long, blooms usually remain in salty coastal waters and do not penetrate upper reaches of estuaries, however, other harmful algae, including cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), typically bloom in freshwater lakes and rivers.

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