salting
verb
- 1
To add salt to.
“to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter”
- 2
To deposit salt as a saline solution.
“The brine begins to salt.”
- 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.
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noun
- 1
The act of sprinkling salt, either on food, or on an icy road
- 2
A salt marsh
- 3
The act of tampering with an investigation site by adding bogus evidence.
- 4
The celebration of the Eton montem.
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