salting

English

Verb

salting

1. present participle and gerund of salt

Noun

A salting.

salting (countable and uncountable, plural saltings)

1. (uncountable) The act of sprinkling salt, either on food, or on an icy road.
2. (countable) A salt marsh.
   • 1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 41:

     Saltings ringing with the redshank's cry.

3. (uncountable) The act of tampering with an investigation site by adding bogus evidence.
4. (UK, historical) The celebration of the Eton montem.

Hyponyms

• (computing): password salting

Derived terms

• salting out

Translations

act

• Finnish: suolaus (fi)
• Galician: salgadura (gl) f
• Irish: sailleadh m
• Polish: solenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: salga (pt) f
• Spanish: salazón (es) f

act of adding bogus evidence

• Spanish: siembra de evidencia f

salt marsh — see salt marsh

References

• salting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• slating, staling, Anglist, lasting, Gatlins