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sal·ad  (sld)
n.
1.
a. 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.
b. The course of a meal consisting of this dish.
2. A cold dish of chopped vegetables, fruit, meat, fish, eggs, or other food, usually prepared with a dressing, such as mayonnaise.
3. A green vegetable or herb used in salad, especially lettuce.
4. A varied mixture: "The Declaration of Independence was . . . a salad of illusions" (George Santayana).

[Middle English salade, from Old French, possibly from Old Provençal salada, from Vulgar Latin *salta, from feminine past participle of *salre, to salt, from Latin sl, salt; see sal- in Indo-European roots.]
Word History: Salt was and is such an important ingredient in salad dressings that the very word salad is based on the Latin word for "salt." Vulgar Latin had a verb *salre, "to salt," from Latin sl, "salt," and the past participial form of this verb, *salta, "having been salted," came to mean "salad." The Vulgar Latin word passed into languages descending from it, such as Portuguese (salada) and Old Provençal (salada). Old French may have borrowed its word salade from Old Provençal. Medieval Latin also carried on the Vulgar Latin word in the form salta. As in the case of so many culinary delights, the English borrowed the word and probably the dish from the French. The Middle English word salade, from Old French salade and Medieval Latin salta, is first recorded in a recipe book composed before 1399. · Salt is of course an important ingredient of other foods and condiments besides salad dressings, as is evidenced by some other culinary word histories. The words sauce and salsa, borrowed into English from French and Spanish, respectively, both come ultimately from the Latin word salsus, meaning "salted." Another derivative of this word was the Late Latin adjective salscius, "prepared by salting," which eventually gave us the word sausage.

salad [ˈsæləd]
n
1. (Cookery) 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
2. (Cookery) any dish of cold vegetables or fruit potato salad fruit salad
3. (Cookery) any green vegetable used in such a dish, esp lettuce
[from Old French salade, from Old Provençal salada, from salar to season with salt, from Latin sal salt]

Salad a cold dish composed of a variety of fruits, vegetables, meats, etc.
Examples: salad of murder and Te Deums, of conflagration and general fasts, 1635; salad of styles (architectural), 1893; the Puritan, Anabaptists, Brownist, like a grand salad, 1635.

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The leaders also signed a deal increasing Iran's involvement in mining research in Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni, a vast salt desert near the Chilean border that holds half the world's known reserves of lithium -- a key mineral used in rechargeable batteries for cell phones, laptops and electric cars.
Students of 9th and 10th classes are asked to report at Salar lane old Bara Aabdara, cadets of 11th and 12th classes to report at National hostel Hayat Abad while 7th and 8th classes cadets are also asked to report at Salar lane old Bara aabdara Peshawar.
Students of 9th and 10th classes are asked to report at Salar lane old Bara Aabdara, cadets of 11th and 12th classes to report at National hostel Hayat Abad while 7th and 8th classes cadets are also asked to report at Salar lane old Bara aabdara Peshawar.
 
 
 
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