How to use word salad

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salad (n): a mixture of uncooked vegetables, usually includinglettuce, eaten either as a separate dish or with other food

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Would you like some salad?
This is the best salad I’ve ever tasted.
My mom was making some salad for breakfast.

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noun

a usually cold dish consisting of vegetables, as lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumbers, covered with a dressing and sometimes containing seafood, meat, or eggs.

any of various dishes consisting of foods, as meat, seafood, eggs, pasta, or fruit, prepared singly or combined, usually cut up, mixed with a dressing, and served cold: chicken salad; potato salad.

any herb or green vegetable, as lettuce, used for salads or eaten raw.

any mixture or assortment: The usual salad of writers, artists, and musicians attended the party.

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Origin of salad

1350–1400; Middle English salad(e) <Middle French salade<Old Provençal salada<Vulgar Latin *salāta, feminine past participle of *salāre to salt, equivalent to sal-, stem of sālsalt1 + -āta-ate1

Words nearby salad

sal, sala, salaam, salable, salacious, salad, salad bar, salad basket, salad bowl, salad burnet, salad days

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How to use salad in a sentence

  • Make an even more flavorful and heartier potato salad by turning to this Dilled Potato Salad With Smoked Trout.

  • Make me a bowl of a chicken or tuna salad and I’m set for days.

  • Yeung’s pork substitute OmniPork is now on the menu across China at thousands of Taco Bell and Starbucks branches, where it is used to make everything from tacos to salads.

  • Rubio started as the salad maker in Dupont Circle and worked his way up the kitchen ladder, following Cashion around town.

  • Another day, the last of those thighs can be transformed into classic chicken salad, which it is scientifically impossible to get tired of, even after eating chicken several days in a row.

  • A cold salad with French string beans is the perfect counterpoint.

  • Before serving, bake the cheese packages, combine the salad and vinaigrette, and serve.

  • A French green bean salad with warm goat cheese reminds Ina Garten of having lunch in Paris.

  • They are an undressed salad compared to a Pacific wild salmon.

  • I ordered a salad, ate it, and in the bathroom snuck a swig of Pepto.

  • The priest opposite looked up from his cold veal and potato salad and smiled.

  • Between the pastry and the dessert, have salad and cheese placed before each guest.

  • We had sandwiches and chicken salad and olives and three kinds of cake and ice cream for refreshments.

  • It was none less than the famous palm salad, about which so many travellers have told.

  • O cool in the summer is salad,And warm in the winter is love; And a poet shall sing you a balladDelicious thereon and thereof.

British Dictionary definitions for salad


noun

a dish of raw vegetables, such as lettuce, tomatoes, etc, served as a separate course with cold meat, eggs, etc, or as part of a main course

any dish of cold vegetables or fruitpotato salad; fruit salad

any green vegetable used in such a dish, esp lettuce

Word Origin for salad

C15: from Old French salade, from Old Provençal salada, from salar to season with salt, from Latin sal salt

Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

What do we mean by salad?

A dish of raw leafy green vegetables, often tossed with pieces of other raw or cooked vegetables, fruit, cheese, or other ingredients and served with a dressing. noun

The course of a meal consisting of this dish. noun

A cold dish of chopped vegetables, fruit, meat, fish, eggs, or other food, usually prepared with a dressing, such as mayonnaise. noun

A green vegetable or herb used in salad, especially lettuce. noun

A varied mixture. noun

Raw herbs, such as lettuce, endive, radishes, green mustard, land- and water-cresses, celery, or young onions, cut up and variously dressed, as with eggs, salt, mustard, oil, vinegar, etc. noun

Herbs for use as salad: colloquially restricted in the United States to lettuce. noun

A dish composed of some kind of meat, chopped and mixed with uncooked herbs, and seasoned with various condiments: as, chicken salad; lobster salad. noun

See sallet. noun

A preparation of vegetables, as lettuce, celery, water cress, onions, etc., usually dressed with salt, vinegar, oil, and spice, and eaten for giving a relish to other food noun

A dish composed of chopped meat or fish, esp. chicken or lobster, mixed with lettuce or other vegetables, and seasoned with oil, vinegar, mustard, and other condiments. noun

The common burnet (Poterium Sanguisorba), sometimes eaten as a salad in Italy. noun

A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise. noun

A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads. noun

Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing; usually consisting of or including greens noun

A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.

A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads.

A polite way of saying sex Urban Dictionary

Mixing your weed with someone elses in the same bowl Urban Dictionary

Another word for hair- the stuff on your head. Urban Dictionary

Endearing term for one’s wife/partner/girlfriend mainly used in relation to a BBQ invite Urban Dictionary

One’s hair style, typically used in context of a male. Used in conjunction with a prefix to describe the state of ones ‘salad’ either awesome, good, stinking or horrendous. Urban Dictionary

To look at someone coyly while smiling or demonstrating obvious lust or affection from a distance. Urban Dictionary

A marijuana mix; a bag with multiple types of marijuana in it Urban Dictionary

A hamburger without the bun, patty, and all the condiments Urban Dictionary

A female lunatic generally spotted carousing around the greater Toronto area. Urban Dictionary

The salad is the anus. It is used in reference with the act of licking one’s anus. Toss the salad. Urban Dictionary

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The metaphorical expression word salad (or word-salad) refers to the practice of stringing together words that have no apparent connection to one another—an extreme case of jumbled speech or disorderly writing. Also called (in psychology) paraphrasia.

Psychiatric clinicians use the term word salad to refer to a rare form of disorganized speech:

  • Campbell’s Psychiatric Dictionary
    …a group of neologisms,» according to Robert Jean Campbell. «They are meaningless until the patient discusses the neologisms at length, thus revealing their underlying significance. It is a coded language, not unlike dreams in principle; the patient holds the table to the code and only he can provide meanings to the otherwise incomprehensible dialect.

Examples and Observations

  • Manfred Spitzer
    [Psychiatrist Eugen] Bleuler described the relatively high frequency of indirect, oblique, or remote, associations in schizophrenic patients. This type of association, observed either in spontaneous speech or in the word-association test, goes from one word to another word via a not overtly spoken intermediate word. One of Bleuler’s examples is wood-dead cousin. At first glance, this association appears to be a complete word salad. However, if you know that a cousin of the patient had died recently and was buried in a wooden coffin, it becomes obvious that this was, in fact, an indirect association, from wood to wooden coffin to dead cousin.
  • D. Frank Benson and Alfredo Ardila
    Neologistic and semantic jargon are the primary components of a schizophrenic language output that has been termed word salad, an apt phrase for the mixture of misused linguistic features produced by the schizophrenic subject. Much more often, however, word salad is based on brain damage (Benson, 1979a).
  • Noam Chomsky
    Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
  • Susan Neville
    When there are recognizable words but no one else can make sense of them, they call it ‘word salad.’ No one ever thinks to call it music.
  • Gregory Corso
    How nice it’d be to come home to her
    and sit by the fireplace and she in the kitchen
    aproned young and lovely wanting my baby
    and so happy about me she burns the roast beef
    and comes crying to me and I get up from my big papa chair
    saying Christmas teeth! Radiant brains! Apple deaf!
    God what a husband I’d make!

Word Salads and Creative Writing

  • Heather Sellers
    The next key characteristic of schizophrenia was the tendency toward ‘word salad.’ There was an example, a rambling block quotation that strung together a grandmother’s death, sunlight, dinner, and cats that didn’t exist, interspersed with inappropriate laughter. Again not my mother. Again more like me. ‘Word salad’ was the exact name of a writing exercise I gave my students at the beginning of the year. In a piece of writing, those moves from death to dinner could be crucial, heartbreaking.
    I opened a fat gray volume titled Schizophrenia. I found a chart that listed the warning signs of the disease: birth complications, separation from parents, withdrawn behavior, emotional unpredictability, poor peer relations, solo play. One could also consider this the recipe for becoming an artist, a writer.

Word-Salad Poetry

  • Nancy Bogen
    [Y]ou mustn’t become so enamored of the sounds you’re using as to lose sight of your meaning. To do so would be tantamount to creating word-salad, and even as a form of rebellion, that won’t do, it simply won’t. Why? Because it’s been done too many times already and by now it’s just plain boring, as boring as saying the same word or phrase over and over like a mantra. If people found it on a printed page, they’d simply shrug and move on; if they heard you reading it aloud, they’d just tune out. So what, some of you are saying? So plenty; you’re supposed to be communicating—poetry is a special form of communication between yourself, the poet, and others who want to or may be persuaded to hear what you have to say in your language.

Word-Salad Spam

  • Pui-Wing Tam
    Word-salad spam has become especially problematic in the last year, say antispam software companies. The technique of stringing together gibberish phrases was devised specifically to dodge a sophisticated type of screening technology, known as a Bayesian filter, which gained popularity in 2003.

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The example sentences of WORD SALAD in videos (3 in total of 3)

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step proper noun, singular

by preposition or subordinating conjunction

step proper noun, singular
divorce proper noun, singular
guide proper noun, singular
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and coordinating conjunction
i personal pronoun
‘ve verb, non-3rd person singular present
helped verb, past participle
millions noun, plural
of preposition or subordinating conjunction
people noun, plural
go verb, non-3rd person singular present
from preposition or subordinating conjunction
lives noun, plural
of preposition or subordinating conjunction
word noun, singular or mass
salad noun, singular or mass
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words noun, plural
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a determiner
condition noun, singular or mass
given verb, past participle
a determiner
name noun, singular or mass
that preposition or subordinating conjunction
sounds noun, plural
like preposition or subordinating conjunction
its possessive pronoun
own adjective
kind noun, singular or mass
of preposition or subordinating conjunction
non noun, singular or mass
sequitur proper noun, singular
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word noun, singular or mass
salad noun, singular or mass
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that determiner
word noun, singular or mass
salad noun, singular or mass
of preposition or subordinating conjunction
a determiner
subject noun, singular or mass
line noun, singular or mass
leads verb, 3rd person singular present
you personal pronoun
to to
yet adverb
another determiner
low adjective
effort noun, singular or mass
phishing proper noun, singular
email noun, singular or mass
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Use «word salad» in a sentence | «word salad» example sentences

How to use «word salad» in a sentence?

  • An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that’s been pharmaceutically duped into believing its wretched world is wonderful.

  • THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted.

    -Mark Kurlansky-

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English idiom

«word salad» is an English idiom. Meaning «Confused, unintelligible, muddled speech lacking any structure or comprehensive meaning. Typically used in reference to a symptom of a mental or neurological disorder, especially schizophrenia.»

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What I have just said does not reflect a ranking in importance.

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behave in a manner characteristic of (a specified person).

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to resist and object to something; to shy away from doing something.

to resist and object to something; to shy away from doing something.

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