flavor vs salt

flavor and salt both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
flavor	Yes	No	Yes	No
salt	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

As verbs, salt is a hyponym of flavor; that is, salt is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than flavor:

Other hyponyms of flavor include sauce, curry, resinate, spice, spice up, zest, savor, savour.

flavor (noun)	salt (noun)
the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth	the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
(physics) the six kinds of quarks	white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people	a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

flavor (adjective)	salt (adjective)
	(of speech) painful or bitter