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SALTY
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Irregular inflected forms: saltier , saltiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Containing or filled with salt
Example:
salt water
Classified under:
Similar:
brackish; briny (slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water))
saliferous (containing or yielding salt)
saline (containing salt)
saltish (somewhat salty)
Also:
tasty (pleasing to the sense of taste)
Antonym:
fresh (not containing or composed of salt water)
Derivation:
salt (white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food)
salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))
saltiness (the property of containing salt (as a compound or in solution))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Engagingly stimulating or provocative
Example:
salty language
Synonyms:
piquant; salty
Classified under:
Similar:
stimulating (rousing or quickening activity or the senses)
Derivation:
saltiness (language or humor that is down-to-earth)
Sense 3
Meaning:
One of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
tasty (pleasing to the sense of taste)
Derivation:
salt; saltiness (the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth)
Context examples:
Plants also grew much better in salty soil, a by-product of drought, the researchers found.
(Grafting helps pepper plants deal with drought, SciDev.Net)
The energy in places where salty ocean water and freshwater mingle could provide a massive source of renewable power.
(Researchers develop technology to harness energy from mixing of freshwater and seawater, National Science Foundation)
This is the only known example of a cryovolcano that potentially formed from a salty mud mix, and that formed in the geologically recent past.
(Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research, NASA)
An airborne electromagnetic (AEM) sensor, called SkyTEM, mounted to the helicopter, allowed the team to discover that brines—salty water—form extensive aquifers below glaciers, lakes and within permanently frozen soils.
(Discovered deep under Antarctic surface: Extensive, salty aquifer and potentially vast microbial habitat, NSF)
The new model indicated these minute traces of oxygen should be able to enter salty seeps of water on or near the planet's surface at levels high enough to support life forms comparable to Earth's microbes, possibly even simple sponges.
(Simple animals could live in Martian brines, Wikinews)
Lopez Garcia said, After analyzing many more samples than in previous works, with adequate controls so as not to contaminate them and a well-calibrated methodology, we have verified that there’s no microbial life in these salty, hot and hyperacid pools or in the adjacent magnesium-rich brine lakes.
(Place discovered on earth with no microbial life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
But the increase wasn't due to more drinking — in fact, a salty diet caused the subjects to drink less.
(Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
This indicates the ocean is probably an extremely salty brine of water mixed with dissolved salts likely composed of sulfur, sodium and potassium.
(Ocean on Saturn moon could be as salty as the Dead Sea, NASA)
The "club sandwich" findings suggest otherwise: the first layer on top of the rocky core might be salty water.
(Ganymede may harbor 'club sandwich' of oceans and ice, NASA)
The scientists' analysis reveals that when the surface ocean is especially salty, as it was throughout 2016, strong winter storms can set off an overturning circulation.
(Data from robotic drifters explain mysterious holes in Antarctic sea ice, National Science Foundation)
