Sour vs. Salty
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 milkSaltyadjective
Containing salt.
Souradjective
Tasting or smelling rancid.
sour stinkSaltyadjective
(figuratively) Coarse, provocative, earthy; said of language.
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 marshSaltyadjective
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.
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 languageSournoun
The sensation of a sour taste.
Saltyadjective
containing salt;
a saline solutionsalty tearsSournoun
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 outSourverb
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 milkSouradjective
inaccurate in pitch;
a false (or sour) noteher singing was off keySouradjective
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
