salting

verb

  1. 1

    To add salt to.

    to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter
  2. 2

    To deposit salt as a saline solution.

    The brine begins to salt.
  3. 3

    To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.

  4. 4

    To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.

  5. 5

    To include colorful language in.

  6. 6

    To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.

Antonyms

noun

  1. 1

    The act of sprinkling salt, either on food, or on an icy road

  2. 2

    A salt marsh

  3. 3

    The act of tampering with an investigation site by adding bogus evidence.

  4. 4

    The celebration of the Eton montem.

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