Salt vs. Vinegar — What's the Difference?

Salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl), a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts; salt in the form of a natural crystalline mineral is known as rock salt or halite. Salt is present in vast quantities in seawater.

Vinegar is an aqueous solution of acetic acid and trace compounds that may include flavorings. Vinegar typically contains 5–8% acetic acid by volume.

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.

A sour liquid containing acetic acid, produced by fermenting a solution (such as wine or fermented rice) containing ethanol produced by a previous fermentation, used as a condiment and preservative.

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

Sourness of speech or mood; ill temper.

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

Liveliness and enthusiasm; vim.

Salts Smelling salts.

(uncountable) A sour liquid formed by the fermentation of alcohol used as a condiment or preservative; a dilute solution of acetic acid.

Often salts Epsom salts.

(countable) Any variety of vinegar.

An element that gives flavor or zest.

(transitive) To season or otherwise treat with vinegar.

Sharp lively wit.

A sour liquid used as a condiment, or as a preservative, and obtained by the spontaneous (acetous) fermentation, or by the artificial oxidation, of wine, cider, beer, or the like.

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

Hence, anything sour; - used also metaphorically.

A saltcellar.

To convert into vinegar; to make like vinegar; to render sour or sharp.

Containing or filled with salt

Sour-tasting liquid produced usually by oxidation of the alcohol in wine or cider and used as a condiment or food preservative

Having a salty taste or smell

Dilute acetic acid

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.

A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.

(chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.

(uncommon) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.

(slang) A sailor also old salt.

(cryptography) Randomly chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting or hashing it, in order to render brute-force decryption more difficult.

A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.

(obsolete) Flavour; taste; seasoning.

(obsolete) Piquancy; wit; sense.

(obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.

Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine.

(figurative) Skepticism and common sense.

(Internet slang) Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing.

The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem.

One who joins a workplace for the purpose of unionizing it.

A bounding; a leaping; a prance.

Salty; salted.

Saline.

Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.

Bitter; sharp; pungent.

Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.

Costly; expensive.

(transitive) To add salt to.

(intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.

To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.

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

(mining) To blast metal into as a portion of a mine in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.

(archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archaeological site.

(transitive) To add certain chemical elements to (a nuclear weapon) so that it generates more radiation.

(transitive) To sprinkle throughout.

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

To render a thing useless.

To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.

(wiki) To lock a page title so it cannot be created.

The chloride of sodium, a substance used for seasoning food, for the preservation of meat, etc. It is found native in the earth, and is also produced, by evaporation and crystallization, from sea water and other water impregnated with saline particles.

Hence, flavor; taste; savor; smack; seasoning.

Hence, also, piquancy; wit; sense; as, Attic salt.

A dish for salt at table; a saltcellar.

A sailor; - usually qualified by old.

The neutral compound formed by the union of an acid and a base; thus, sulphuric acid and iron form the salt sulphate of iron or green vitriol.

Fig.: That which preserves from corruption or error; that which purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction; as, his statements must be taken with a grain of salt.

Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt.

Marshes flooded by the tide.

The act of leaping or jumping; a leap.

Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; salt water.

Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass.

Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent.

Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful.

To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt cattle.

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

To deposit salt as a saline solution; as, the brine begins to salt.

A compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

White crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food

Negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons

The taste experience when salt is taken into the mouth

Add salt to

Sprinkle as if with salt;

Add zest or liveliness to;

Preserve with salt;

Containing or filled with salt;

Of speech that is painful or bitter;

One of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water