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salting

verb

Meaning

  1. To add salt to.
  2. To deposit salt as a saline solution.
  3. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
  4. To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
  5. To include colorful language in.
  6. To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
  7. The act of sprinkling salt, either on food, or on an icy road
  8. A salt marsh
  9. The act of tampering with an investigation site by adding bogus evidence.
  10. The celebration of the Eton montem.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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