sel
French → English
(condiment) Salt: common table salt (sodium chloride) used for seasoning or preserving food
Les ouvriers recouvrent les poissons de sel avant de les mettre en fosse.
(English) The workers cover the fish with salt before putting them in the pit.
Manger une chose à la croque au sel signifie la manger sans autre assaisonnement.
(English) Eating something with just a pinch of salt means eating it with no other seasoning.
(figurative) Zest or wit: the quality that makes something lively, sharp, interesting, or pungent
Il n’y a pas un grain de sel dans son discours ennuyeux et trop formel.
(English) There isn't a grain of wit (salt) in his boring and overly formal speech.
Le spectacle du barman qui mixe les boissons fait tout le sel de l'expérience.
(English) The sight of the bartender mixing drinks provides the real zest (salt) of the experience.
(chemistry) Salt: a chemical compound formed by the reaction of an acid with a base
La solution d’ammoniaque est utilisée pour la fabrication des sels ammoniacaux industriels.
(English) The ammonia solution is used for the manufacture of industrial ammonium salts.
Sous l’influence de la chaleur, ce composé chimique se comporte comme un sel de chaux.
(English) Under the influence of heat, this chemical compound behaves like a lime salt.
Entry ID: fr:en:sel · Source: refined · Type: vocabulary