lactate vs salt

lactate and salt both are nouns.

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

As nouns, salt is a hypernym of lactate; that is, salt is a word with a broader meaning than lactate:

lactate: a salt or ester of lactic acid
salt: a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

Other hypernyms of lactate include ester.

lactate (noun)	salt (noun)
a salt or ester of lactic acid	the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
	white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
	a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

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