salt vs swab

salt

noun
  • A sailor (also old salt). 

  • 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. 

  • Skepticism and common sense. 

  • 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. 

swab

noun
  • A sailor; a swabby. 

  • A naval officer's epaulet. 

  • A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access. 

  • A mop, especially on a ship. 

  • A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns. 

  • A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material). 

verb
  • To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab. 

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