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# salad

«salad» in Mova's school dictionary: **a cold dish of mixed vegetables, like lettuce, tomato and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (salad, salads)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A salad is a cold dish of mixed vegetables, like lettuce, tomato and cucumber, often with a dressing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salad/#m1)

2) A fruit salad is a mix of cut-up fruit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salad/#m2)

3) A salad can also have pasta, rice, eggs, cheese or meat in it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salad/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a food item bought or made; counted in bowls or plates, or made from amounts of vegetables; in health: salads give vitamins and fibre, part of a balanced diet; in everyday life: wash vegetables before making a salad, use a knife carefully; phrases: «side salad», «fruit salad», «salad dressing»

### examples

- A salad costs 4 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salad/#x1)
- Mom used 3 tomatoes and 2 cucumbers for the salad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salad/#x2)
- The café sold 26 salads today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salad/#x3)
- Each bowl of fruit salad has 5 strawberries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salad/#x4)
- Wash the lettuce before you make the salad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salad/#x5)
- I'd like a side salad with my sandwich, please. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salad/#x6)
- Salads are full of vitamins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salad/#x7)
- We made a fruit salad with apples, grapes and bananas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salad/#x8)
- This last delicacy played a principal part in the salad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salad/#x9)

### note

Carries no clue to the operation; it names an item with a price or the parts it is made of. Trap: the parts of a salad may need to be added to find the total. Countable: a salad, two salads.

### In the corpora

- [Shake a bottle of salad dressing and the oil breaks into tiny droplets for a while, but the droplets soon join up again.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/7-oil-and-water/2/)
- [A salad spinner flings the water outward and off the leaves through the holes; hospitals spin blood fast to separate it into layers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «salad» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salad/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.