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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
salt/pepper
see also FOOD, COOK
- the white substance used to flavour food: salt (noun U): tasting of salt: salty
Can you pass the salt, please? ◎ salt water (= water from the sea or water with salt in it)
The soup was too salty.
- the smallest piece of salt: grain of salt
- (when you are cooking) a very small amount of salt: pinch of salt
Add a pinch of salt.
- the container that you put on the table for salt: salt cellar
- the hot-tasting black or brown spice often used with salt to flavour food: pepper (noun U); tasting of pepper: peppery
freshly ground black pepper
- a pepper seed: peppercorn
- a container in which you grind pepper (= make it into a fine powder): pepper mill
- (when you are cooking) to add salt, pepper, spices, etc to food: season sth; noun (U): seasoning
The recipe says 'season well' so you could put in a bit more pepper. ◎ I think the soup needs some more seasoning.
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