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# salad

noun (salad, salads)

«salad» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A salad is a cold dish of mixed vegetables, like lettuce, tomato and cucumber, often with a dressing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salad/#m1)
2. A fruit salad is a mix of cut-up fruit. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salad/#m3)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «salad» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salad/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«salad» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/salad.html) on Mova free.