Sour vs. Salty

Sour vs. Salty — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Sour and Salty

Souradjective

Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.

Lemons have a sour taste.

Saltyadjective

Tasting of salt.

Souradjective

Made rancid by fermentation, etc.

sour milk

Saltyadjective

Containing salt.

Souradjective

Tasting or smelling rancid.

sour stink

Saltyadjective

(figuratively) Coarse, provocative, earthy; said of language.

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Souradjective

Peevish or bad-tempered.

He gave me a sour look.

Saltyadjective

(figuratively) Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).

Souradjective

Excessively acidic and thus infertile.

sour landa sour marsh

Saltyadjective

Irritated, annoyed (from the sharp, spicy flavor of salt).

Souradjective

Containing excess sulfur.

Saltyadjective

Indignant or offended due to over-sensitivity, humourlessness, or defeat (implying the person is a crybaby, shedding salty tears); said of interlocutors expressing indignation, or merely disagreement.

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Souradjective

Unfortunate or unfavorable.

Saltyadjective

(linguistics) Pertaining to the Sardinian language and those dialects of Catalan, spoken in the Balearic Islands and along the coast of Catalonia, that use definitive articles descended from the Latin self instead of the Latin that.

Souradjective

(music) Off-pitch, out of tune.

Saltyadjective

engagingly stimulating or provocative;

a piquant witsalty language

Sournoun

The sensation of a sour taste.

Saltyadjective

containing salt;

a saline solutionsalty tears

Sournoun

A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.

Saltyadjective

one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water

Sournoun

(by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.

Sournoun

A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.

Sourverb

(transitive) To make sour.

Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe.

Sourverb

(intransitive) To become sour.

Sourverb

(transitive) To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.

Sourverb

(intransitive) To become disenchanted.

We broke up after our relationship soured.

Sourverb

(transitive) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.

Sourverb

To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.

Sournoun

a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar

Sournoun

the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth

Sournoun

the property of being acidic

Sourverb

go sour or spoil;

The milk has souredThe wine workedThe cream has turned--we have to throw it out

Sourverb

make sour or more sour

Souradjective

smelling of fermentation or staleness

Souradjective

having a sharp biting taste

Souradjective

one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons

Souradjective

in an unpalatable state;

sour milk

Souradjective

inaccurate in pitch;

a false (or sour) noteher singing was off key

Souradjective

showing a brooding ill humor;

a dark scowlthe proverbially dour New England Puritana glum, hopeless shrughe sat in moody silencea morose and unsociable mannera saturnine, almost misanthropic young geniusa sour tempera sullen crowd