sal
sal — noun
1. the white substance people add to food for flavour or use to keep food from goin
1.名詞
釋義
the white substance people add to food for flavour or use to keep food from going bad
例句
The old cookbook told Mina to rub the pork with sal.
old-fashioned noun for salt in cooking
At the harbor market, traders bought sal for drying fish.
sal for preserving fish
The school lab kept sal in a glass jar by the sink.
The museum label explained that sal once meant common salt.
同義詞
- salt
the normal modern everyday word; sal is a rare older form
- common salt
a more specific label when you mean ordinary table salt rather than a chemical salt
用法筆記
Rare and old-fashioned in ordinary English. Most people now say salt, and sal survives mainly in historical writing or fixed names such as sal ammoniac.
常見錯誤
❌Please pass the sal.
✅Please pass the salt.
💡Modern everyday English uses salt; sal now sounds old-fashioned and unusual.