sal

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sāl.]

Salt.

1. any compound of a base and an acid.
2. salts, a saline purgative. See also sodium chloride.

• bile s's — glycine or taurine conjugates of bile acids, which are formed in the liver and secreted in the bile. They are powerful detergents which break down fat globules, enabling them to be digested.
• s. brine — strong solution of common salt used to pickle meat and other human foods. Sodium chloride is the biggest component but large quantities of nitrate are usually present and represent a greater toxicity hazard than does the salt.
• buffer s. — a salt in the blood that is able to absorb slight excesses of acid or alkali with little or no change in the hydrogen ion concentration.
• common s. — see sodium chloride.
• s. gland — nasal gland in birds.
• s. hunger — common in circumstances in which animals are derived of any salt; manifested by leather chewing, earth eating, coat licking and urine drinking.
• s. lick — 1. naturally occurring deposit of salt in the form of a shallow pan that wild and domestic animals can share by licking.
— 2. a prepared mixture of salt with other minerals added, the composition varying with the local nutritional deficiency but the common additive is one containing phosphorus. The cattle or sheep are encouraged to lick by the taste of the salt and serendipitously acquire the other minerals. May be loose and put out in containers covered against the weather or formed into blocks that resist rain erosion and are fitted into holders fixed to buildings or free-standing in the pasture. See also mineral–salt mixture.
• Rochelle s. — potassium sodium tartrate, a cathartic.
• s. sick — see copper nutritional deficiency.
• smelling s's — aromatic ammonium carbonate, a stimulant and restorative.
• s. tolerant — capable of surviving in a high concentration of salt, e.g. some bacteria, including staphylococci.

Sal or SAL may refer to:

Names or words

• A nickname for Salvatore, a common Italian name
• Sal Paradise, the narrator and protagonist in Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road.
• Sal (Shorea robusta), a tree found in southern Asia that is an important source of hardwood timber
• Sal, Cape Verde, an island in Cape Verde
• Sal River (India), a river in Goa
• Sal River (Russia), a river in Russia
• Sal languages, a family of Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in eastern India and Burma
• Sumerian for "woman", see MUNUS
• Sal, a character in the sci-fi animated TV series Futurama
• Jordan DeBrincat, from Ontario, Canada.
• Jennifer Stranges from Ontario, Canada.
• Brooke Padanyi from Ontario, Canada.
• Kathleen Turner from Ontario, Canada.
• Paul McLaughlin from the Beaches, Ontario, Canada
• Sir Alan Sugar
• A group of French Canadian and Portuguese firefighter male strippers.
• un rectum sal est un orifice qui ne resulte pas a la penetration donc celui-ci est tres etrois. La couleur depend des pigmentations de la peau autour du rectum en question, il pourrait etre soit brun ou rose(beige) dependament du striptiseur

Abbreviations

• Salt
• Salutation
• El Salvador International Airport, whose IATA code is "SAL"
• Setia Amanah Luhur or SAL Group of Colleges, a private higher education institution in Malaysia

Acronyms

• Surface Air Lifted, postal classification
• Seaboard Air Line Railroad
• Saharan Air Layer
• SAL 9000 is the earth-based equivalent of HAL 9000 in 2010: Odyssey Two
• The South Atlantic League, a minor league baseball league
• Swedish American Line, an ocean liner and cruise ship operator that existed between 1915 and 1986
• Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory
• Source Annotation Language, which provides a set of annotations to describe how a C/C++ programming language function uses its parameters
• The Chapman code for Shropshire
• Structural Adjustment Loans, an economic tool supported by the World Bank
• Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens, South African airline
• Sterility assurance level

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