salt vs should

salt

noun
  • Skepticism and common sense. 

  • Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing. 

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

  • 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. 

  • A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea. 

  • The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem. 

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

  • A sailor (also old salt). 

  • Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine. 

verb
  • To add salt to. 

  • To sprinkle throughout. 

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

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

  • To add bogus evidence to an archaeological site. 

  • To deposit salt as a saline solution. 

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

  • To lock a page title so it cannot be created. 

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

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

adj
  • Salty; salted. 

  • Saline. 

  • Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use. 

should

noun
  • Something that ought to be the case as opposed to already being the case. 

verb
  • Will be likely to (become or do something); indicates a degree of possibility or probability that the stated thing will happen or be true in the future. 

  • Indicates that something is expected to have happened or to be the case now. 

  • Used to express a conditional outcome. 

  • With verbs such as 'see' or 'hear', usually in the second person, used to point out something remarkable in either a good or bad way. 

  • To make a statement of what ought to be true, as opposed to reality. 

  • Used to impart a tentative, conjectural or polite nuance. 

  • Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation. 

  • Simple past tense of shall. 

  • In questions, asks what is correct, proper, desirable, etc. 

  • Used to issue an instruction (traditionally seen as carrying less force of authority than alternatives such as 'shall' or 'must'). 

  • Used to give advice or opinion that an action is, or would have been, beneficial or desirable. 

  • Used to form a variant of the present subjunctive, expressing a state or action that is hypothetical, potential, mandated, etc. 

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