What's the difference between salad and toss?

Salad


Definition:

  • (n.) 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; as, lettuce salad; tomato salad, etc.
  • (n.) 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; as, chicken salad; lobster salad.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The dumplings could also be served pan-fried in browned butter and tossed with a bitter leaf salad and fresh sheep's cheese for a lighter, but equally delicious option.
  • (2) Donors ate a typical Israeli breakfast of salad, cheese, yoghurt and pastries.
  • (3) Photograph: Jonathan Lovekin for the Observer Nigel Slater's cold noodle and tomato salad makes a nice grownup supper with leftovers for the packed lunch.
  • (4) The objective of the study was to develop a method of assessing the relationship, rather than the absolute magnitude of the relationship, of production time for salads and the number of servings prepared in a university residence hall foodservice.
  • (5) Even if some of those customers visit every day, and some just opt for a salad, that is a lot of Nandinos – and a lot of chicken.
  • (6) A gradual decrease in the number of viable L. monocytogenes cells was observed in juice and sauce held at 21 degrees C. In contrast, the organism died rapidly when suspended in commercial tomato ketchup at 5 and 21 degrees C. Unlike low-acid raw salad vegetables such as lettuce, broccoli, asparagus, and cauliflower on which we have observed L. monocytogenes grow at refrigeration temperatures, tomatoes are not a good growth substrate for the organism.
  • (7) Munn has by this time long finished his chicken salad and declines my offer of another half of lager.
  • (8) Photograph: William Latkin I served these in quenelles with a little green salad and some grape focaccia.
  • (9) For a score based on consumption of only the 3 specified salad items the odds ratio over the extreme quartiles was 0.12 (0.05-0.32).
  • (10) While it might seem like a good idea to pick up several bags of salad when you spot the "buy one get one free" deal, your masses of salad won't look quite as appetising when it starts to go brown a few days later.
  • (11) Three ways with cider vinegar • Winter salad dressing Boil two shallots with a few juniper berries and thyme leaves, then reduce 150ml cider vinegar by half and mix with the above.
  • (12) Perhaps the powers from on high will decide that picnics in Kensington Gardens can only comprise quinoa salads and raw broccoli.
  • (13) Three foods were preferred by case patients more frequently than by control patients: tuna fish, chicken salad, and cheese.
  • (14) Their appetite for double entendres on Bake Off - which prompted a complaint to the BBC’s Points of View that they get “smuttier and smuttier, and it is totally unnecessary” - was already evident at Light Lunch when word came down from on high at Channel 4 that there were too many references to “tossing a salad”.
  • (15) This represents the first major outbreak of typhoid fever in which a salad has been identified as the vehicle.
  • (16) It went into tinned soups, salad dressings, processed meats, carbohydrate-based snacks, ice cream, bread, canned tuna, chewing gum, baby food and soft drinks.
  • (17) I used to be about fast food but now I’m about salad,” said Manuel Barra, 22, a star member of the the Green Leaf Killer team (motto: Ride.
  • (18) At Le Bouquet Garni (+33 4 93 86 20 71, 1 rue Palmaro, about £30pp), run by a family from Rome, the standout dish was a simple tomato and mozzarella salad made with the freshest, creamiest burrata .
  • (19) If you forgo alcohol, incidentally, you could eat one of a handful of the main courses which come in just under £10, such as a special of smoked haddock with summer vegetables, soft poached egg and herb velouté, or the homemade fish fingers with salad and tartare sauce.
  • (20) Vegetables or salad crops were not irrigated with effluent.

Toss


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.
  • (v. t.) To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head.
  • (v. t.) To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm.
  • (v. t.) To agitate; to make restless.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to try; to harass.
  • (v. t.) To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar.
  • (v. i.) To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to fling.
  • (v. i.) To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean.
  • (n.) A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as, the toss of a ball.
  • (n.) A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The dumplings could also be served pan-fried in browned butter and tossed with a bitter leaf salad and fresh sheep's cheese for a lighter, but equally delicious option.
  • (2) Put in a large bowl, add the parsley, oil and lemon juice, and gently toss.
  • (3) "We realise that it's an election time and these issues are tossed back and forth, but regardless of who leads Australia, we will look to them for action."
  • (4) The jury concluded Duggan had tossed the gun away and was not holding a weapon when surrounded by police marksmen.
  • (5) For every drop shot that was loose, lazy and tossed away a point, there was another that smacked of insouciant brilliance.
  • (6) Any hint of Charlotte as a sexual being is tossed on to the historical furnace.
  • (7) Hoodies don't vote, they've realised it's pointless, that whoever gets elected will just be a different shade of the "we don't give a toss about you" party.
  • (8) In one email, an aide suggests she should “toss a wrench at someone”.
  • (9) Campbell got the parents to play a simple game in which one team tried to flip some cones over one way and the other to flip them the other way – to illustrate the point that when parents are not united in their approach, children will feel like the cones being tossed about.
  • (10) Kazakhstan win the toss and the warring cheersquads go quiet for now.
  • (11) Their appetite for double entendres on Bake Off - which prompted a complaint to the BBC’s Points of View that they get “smuttier and smuttier, and it is totally unnecessary” - was already evident at Light Lunch when word came down from on high at Channel 4 that there were too many references to “tossing a salad”.
  • (12) I was having some tapas and a large bottle of wine as I was flicking through Facebook and I said: ‘Who should I nominate?’” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jennifer Mitchell, law student Labour & Liverpool: Jennifer Mitchell interview After tossing about some names, her boyfriend suggested her father.
  • (13) But bewilderment quickly turned to horror after the gunman tossed two gas canisters into the room and began firing, spraying the audience with bullets.
  • (14) 800g veal shoulder, cut into 4cm dice 1 tbsp plain flour Salt and black pepper 30g unsalted butter 60ml olive oil 1 large onion, peeled and roughly chopped 200ml dry white wine 8 large sage leaves Shaved skin of 1 lemon, plus 3 tbsp lemon juice 1 550g head puntarelle (or 2 heads white chicory, cut widthways into 3cm-long segments) 1 small celeriac, peeled and chopped into 2cm dice (500g net weight) 200g pancetta, cut into 1cm dice 20g capers For the salad 1 clove garlic, peeled and crushed 1 anchovy fillet, finely chopped 2 tsp red-wine vinegar 2 tbsp olive oil 1 white chicory, cut in half lengthways and then into long, 0.5cm thick wedges (or the rest of the puntarelle, if using) 80g rocket Toss the veal in flour seasoned with a teaspoon of salt and a good grind of pepper, until evenly coated, then tap off any excess.
  • (15) 10.32am BST The toss Cook has won it, and England are going to have a bowl.
  • (16) One throwaway moment with him tossing a hat into a van, I thought, well, nothing much we can do with that, but Will made it work beautifully.
  • (17) Mount Sinai is so overstretched they couldn’t give a toss either way.
  • (18) I think retreating to your lab and hoping it will all go away is not going to be the best strategy.” The idea to march was first tossed around on a Reddit thread in January.
  • (19) Photograph: Franck Allais and Ed Johns for the Guardian Flatbread, baked golden and crispy, tossed in a light salad and dressing.
  • (20) You could toss a mullet net over any park bench between Key West and Pensacola and drag in two people who’d be more inspiring.