Halting vs. Salting — What's the Difference?

Hesitant or wavering

A usually whitish crystalline solid, chiefly sodium chloride, used extensively in ground or granulated form as a food seasoning and preservative. Also called common salt, table salt.

Imperfect; defective

An ionic chemical compound formed by replacing all or part of the hydrogen ions of an acid with metal ions or other cations.

Limping; lame.

Salts Any of various mineral salts used as laxatives or cathartics.

Prone to pauses or breaks; hesitant; broken.

Salts Smelling salts.

Present participle of halt

Often salts Epsom salts.

The action of one who halts; a stopping or hesitancy.

An element that gives flavor or zest.

Disabled in the feet or legs;

Sharp lively wit.

Fragmentary or halting from emotional strain;

(Informal) A sailor, especially when old or experienced.

A saltcellar.

Containing or filled with salt

Having a salty taste or smell

Preserved in salt or a salt solution

Flooded with seawater.

Found in or near such a flooded area

To add, treat, season, or sprinkle with salt.

To cure or preserve by treating with salt or a salt solution.

To provide salt for (deer or cattle).

To add zest or liveliness to

To give an appearance of value to by fraudulent means, especially to place valuable minerals in (a mine) for the purpose of deceiving.

Present participle of salt

(uncountable) The act of sprinkling salt, either on food, or on an icy road.

(countable) A salt marsh.

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

The celebration of the Eton montem.

The act of sprinkling, impregnating, or furnishing, with salt.

A salt marsh.

The act of adding salt to food