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English

Pronunciation


Etymology

Old French toster (to roast, to grill) < Latin tostus (grilled, burnt, from verb torrere (to burn, to grill))

The salutation originally referred to the beautiful or popular woman whose health was proposed and drunk, from the use of spiced toast to flavor drink, regarding her as figuratively adding piquancy to the wine in which her health was drunk

Noun

  1. Toasted bread.
  2. :I ate a piece of toast for breakfast.
  3. Something that will be no more; something subject to impending destruction, harm or injury.
  4. :If I ever get my hands on the guy that stole my wallet, he’s toast!
  5. A proposed salutation (e.g. to say "cheers") while drinking alcohol.
  6. :At the reception, there were many toasts from the well-wishers.
  7. (Jamaican and U.S. black slang) extemporaneous narrative poem or rap


Translations

  • Croatian: {{t|hr|prepečenac|m}}, {{t-|hr|tost|m}}
  • Czech: topinka
  • Dutch: toost, geroosterd brood
  • Finnish: paahtoleipä
  • Friulan: brustulâ
  • German: {{t+|de|Toast|m}}

Verb

  1. To lightly cook by browning via direct exposure to a fire or other heat source.
  2. :We liked to toast marshmallows around the campfire.
  3. To grill, lightly cook by browning specifically under a grill or in a toaster
  4. :Top with cheese and toast under the grill for a few minutes.


  1. To engage in a salutation and/or accompanying raising of glasses while drinking alcohol in honor of someone or something.
  2. :We toasted the happy couple many times over the course of the evening.


Translations

  • Dutch:
  • Spanish:
  • Spanish:
  • Dutch: toasten, drinken op
  • German: toasten

Related terms

the salutation


the food


References


Category:English ergative verbs

de:toast el:toast fa:toast fr:toast io:toast it:toast hu:toast pl:toast ru:toast fi:toast sv:toast ta:toast te:toast vi:toast zh:toast

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Toast \Toast\, n. [OF. toste, or tost['e]e, toasted bread. See
Toast, v.]
1. Bread dried and browned before a fire, usually in slices;
also, a kind of food prepared by putting slices of toasted
bread into milk, gravy, etc.
[1913 Webster]

My sober evening let the tankard bless,
With toast embrowned, and fragrant nutmeg fraught.
--T. Warton.
[1913 Webster]

2. A lady in honor of whom persons or a company are invited
to drink; -- so called because toasts were formerly put
into the liquor, as a great delicacy.
[1913 Webster]

It now came to the time of Mr. Jones to give a toast
. . . who could not refrain from mentioning his dear
Sophia. --Fielding.
[1913 Webster]

3. Hence, any person, especially a person of distinction, in
honor of whom a health is drunk; hence, also, anything so
commemorated; a sentiment, as "The land we live in," "The
day we celebrate," etc.
[1913 Webster]

Toast rack, a small rack or stand for a table, having
partitions for holding slices of dry toast.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Toast \Toast\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toasted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Toasting.] [OF. toster to roast, toast, fr. L. torrere,
tostum, to parch, roast. See Torrid.]
1. To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast
bread.
[1913 Webster]

2. To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.
[1913 Webster]

3. To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to
the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet toast
n 1: slices of bread that have been toasted
2: a celebrity who receives much accalim and attention; "he was
the toast of the town"
3: a person in desperate straits; someone doomed; "I'm a goner
if this plan doesn't work"; "one mistake and you're toast"
[syn: goner]
4: a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event
[syn: pledge]
v 1: make brown and crisp by heating; "toast bread"; "crisp
potatoes" [syn: crisp]
2: propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!";
"Let's drink to the New Year" [syn: drink, pledge, salute,
wassail]
Moby Dictionary
French bread , Irish soda bread , Italian bread , anniversaries ,
appreciation , bake , barbecue , baste , be in heat , beige , belle , bib ,
black bread , blanch , blaze , bloom , boil , booze , braise , bread ,
bread stick , bread stuff , brew , broil , brown , brown bread ,
brownish , brownish-yellow , brunet , burn , celebrating , celebration ,
ceremony , cheers , chocolate , choke , cinnamon , cocoa , cocoa-brown ,
coddle , coffee , coffee-brown , combust , commemoration , congratulate ,
cook , cracked-wheat bread , crust , curry , dark bread , darling ,
devil , do , do to perfection , drab , drain the cup , dressing ship ,
drink , drink in , drink off , drink to , drink up , dun , dun-brown ,
dun-drab , ecru , fanfare , fanfaronade , favorite , fawn , fawn-colored ,
felicitate , festivity , fine lady , fire , flame , flame up , flare ,
flare up , flicker , flourish of trumpets , flush , fricassee , frizz ,
frizzle , fry , fuscous , garlic bread , gasp , glow , good wishes ,
graham bread , grande dame , greet , greetings , grege , griddle , grill ,
guzzle , hazel , heat , hero , heroine , holiday , honor , idol , imbibe ,
incandesce , jubilee , khaki , loaf of bread , lurid ,
marking the occasion , matzo , matzoth , memorialization , memory ,
nut bread , nut-brown , observance , olive-brown , olive-drab , ovation ,
oven-bake , pain , pan , pan-broil , pant , parboil , parch ,
pay tribute to , pita , pledge , poach , precieuse , prepare ,
prepare food , pull , pumpernickel , quaff , radiate heat ,
raisin bread , rejoicing , religious rites , remembrance ,
remembrances , revel , rite , ritual observance , roast , rye bread ,
salt-rising bread , salutations , salute , salvo , saute , scald ,
scallop , scorch , seal , seal-brown , sear , seethe , sepia ,
shimmer with heat , shirr , simmer , sip , smolder , smother ,
snuff-colored , solemn observance , solemnization , sorrel , sourbread ,
sourdough bread , spark , staff of life , steam , stew , stifle ,
stir-fry , suck , suck in , suckle , suffocate , sup , sweat , swelter ,
swig , swill , tan , taupe , tawny , testimonial , testimonial banquet ,
testimonial dinner , tipple , toast-brown , tommy , toss down ,
toss off , tribute , triumph , umber , umber-colored , unleavened bread ,
walnut , walnut-brown , wash down , white bread , whole wheat bread ,
yellowish-brown


Jargon toast 1. n. Any completely inoperable system or component, esp. one
that has just crashed and burned: "Uh, oh ... I think the serial board
is toast." (This sense went mainstream around 1993.) 2. vt. To cause a
system to crash accidentally, especially in a manner that requires
manual rebooting. "Rick just toasted the firewall machine again."
Compare fried.


FOLDOC toast

1. Any completely inoperable system or component,
especially one that has just crashed and burned: "Uh, oh ... I
think the serial board is toast."

2. To cause a system to crash accidentally, especially in a
manner that requires manual rebooting. "Rick just toasted the
firewall machine again."

Compare fried.

(1995-05-01)


Toast, NC (CDP, FIPS 67700) Location: 36.49687 N, 80.63293 W Population (1990): 2125 (897 housing units) Area: 5.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Moby Dictionary 1922
Housing Units (2000): 886
Land area (2000): 1.779068 sq. miles (4.607766 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.779068 sq. miles (4.607766 sq. km)
FIPS code: 67700
Located within: North Carolina (NC) , FIPS 37
Location: 36.499728 N , 80.633063 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Toast , NC
Toast
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