Meaning: salt

Illustrative Context

She puts too much salt in her food.

Target Sense

• The most generic noun for salt in the prototypical sense of its visible white and solid form, used for adding to food (as in the illustrative context) and commonly ground into small grains or a powder.
• The target sense is the noun (normally a mass/non-count noun) for salt as a solid or powder. Do not enter the adjective salty/saline/salted, nor related nouns for salted (savoury) as a type of taste, salt water (e.g. brine), etc..
• Enter the most generic lexeme; avoid narrower terms that refer to particular types of salt (e.g. sea-salt, rock salt), preparations of salt in any particular form (e.g. coarsely or finely ground powder), etc..
• Follow popular usage and basic vocabulary: technical definitions in chemistry are irrelevant. Avoid terms equivalent to (English) salt used as a chemical term to refer to other ionic compounds. The target sense here is only common salt as (predominantly) sodium chloride, used with food. Avoid technical terms (e.g. chemical or culinary).