salt up

saler

Mettre du sel dans un aliment pour lui donner davantage de goût.

En anglais simple : To add salt to food to improve its taste.

• Salt up the potatoes before serving.
• He salted up the stew at the table.
• I prefer to salt up my own food.

Synonymes : salt, season with salt

Expressions courantes : salt up something, salt something up

se couvrir de sel

Se recouvrir d’une couche dure de sel.

En anglais simple : To become covered with a hard layer of salt.

• Our boots salted up on the winter roads.
• The boat fittings had salted up after weeks at sea.
• These surfaces salt up whenever seawater dries on them.

Synonymes : become salt-encrusted

Expressions courantes : salt up quickly, salt up completely

se saliniser

Devenir plus salé, en parlant du sol ou de l’eau, ce qui rend parfois les cultures difficiles.

En anglais simple : For soil or water to become saltier, sometimes making it hard to grow crops.

• The soil is salting up.
• Poor drainage caused these fields to salt up.
• As the lake shrinks, its water salts up.

Synonymes : become saline

Expressions courantes : salt up gradually, salt up badly

saler

Répandre du sel sur les routes ou chemins avant la neige pour limiter la formation de glace.

En anglais simple : To put salt on roads or paths before snow falls, so ice is less likely to form.

• They salted up the roads overnight.
• We should salt up the path before the snow arrives.
• The council is salting up streets ahead of tonight’s freeze.

Synonymes : salt, grit

Expressions courantes : salt up roads, salt something up