Difference between Salt and Salty

What is the difference between Salt and Salty?

Salt as an adjective is salty. while Salty as an adjective is tasting of salt.

Salt

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative. One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid. A kind of marsh at the shore of a sea (short for salt marsh, apparently not in a wide-spread use). A sailor (also old salt). Additional bytes inserted into a plaintext message before encryption, in order to increase randomness and render brute-force decryption more difficult. A person that engages in the political act of seeking employment at a company in order to help unionize it.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Salty. Saline.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To add salt to. To blast gold into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam. To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive. To include colorful language in. To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have. To add bogus evidence to an archeological site.

Example sentence: Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

Salty

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Tasting of salt.Containing salt.Coarse, provocative, earthy; said of language.Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services.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 .

Example sentence: I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.

We hope you now know whether to use Salt or Salty in your sentence.

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