Salad vs. Sandwich — What's the Difference?

A salad is a dish consisting of mixed pieces of food, typically with at least one raw ingredient. They are often dressed, and typically served at room temperature or chilled, though some can be served warm.

A sandwich is a food typically consisting of vegetables, sliced cheese or meat, placed on or between slices of bread, or more generally any dish wherein bread serves as a container or wrapper for another food type. The sandwich began as a portable, convenient finger food in the Western world, though over time it has become prevalent worldwide.

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.

An item of food consisting of two pieces of bread with a filling between them, eaten as a light meal

The course of a meal consisting of this dish.

Relating to a sandwich course

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

Insert or squeeze (someone or something) between two other people or things, typically in a restricted space or so as to be uncomfortable

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

Two or more slices of bread with a filling such as meat or cheese placed between them.

A varied mixture

A partly split long or round roll containing a filling.

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

One slice of bread covered with a filling.

A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads.

Something resembling a sandwich

(idiomatic) Any varied blend or mixture.

To insert (one thing) tightly between two other things often of differing character or quality. "She showed me her wedding band, which was sandwiched on the same finger between two prettier, fancier rings" (Dan Leone).

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.

To collide with or crash into (a person, for example) with impacts on opposing sides

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.

To make room or time for

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

A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serve(s) as the wrapper or container of some other food.

Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.

(UK) A layer cake or sandwich cake.

(archaic) A sandwichman one who wears a sandwich board.

To place one item physically between two other, usually flat, items.

(figuratively) To put or set something between two others, in time.

(sex) To double penetrate

To feed sandwiches.

To eat sandwiches.

(US) Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner. en

Two pieces of bread and butter with a thin slice of meat, cheese, or the like, between them.

To make into a sandwich; also, figuratively, to insert between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard.

Two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them

Make into a sandwich

Insert or squeeze tightly between two people or objects;