English Explanatory Dictionary

toast

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Bread that has been toasted (cooked lightly by browning).
  2. A proposed salutation (e.g. saying "cheers") while drinking alcohol.
  3. A person, group, or notable object to which a salutation with alcohol is made; a person or group held in similar esteem.
  4. Something that is irreparably damaged or used up, especially when destroyed by heat or fire; something which has been burnt to a crisp or incinerated.
  5. Something that will be no more; something subject to impending destruction, harm or injury.
  6. A type of extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
  7. An old toast ("a lively fellow who drinks excessively").
  8. A transient, informational unclickable pop-up overlay, less interactive than a snackbar.
  9. A piece of toast.
verb
  1. To cook lightly by browning by means of direct exposure to a fire or other heat source.
  2. To cook lightly by browning under a grill or in a toaster; to grill.
  3. To engage in a salutation, often with raising of the drinking vessel, while drinking an alcoholic beverage in honor of someone or something.
  4. To warm thoroughly.
  5. To perform an extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
name
  1. Initialism of The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique: a mechanism in PostgreSQL that allows rows of data to exceed the normal maximum size by splitting off part of the data into an auxiliary table.

Pronunciation

/təʊst/ /toʊst/ /təʉst/ En-us-toast.ogg

Word forms

toast toasts tost toasting toasted

Etymology

From Middle English tost, from the verb tosten (see below). Sense 3 is according to the Oxford English Dictionary a figurative application of sense 1 dating to 1674. It began as an epithet for a lady being supposed to flavour a bumper like a spiced toast placed in that drink. (In this context, a bumper is a drinking vessel filled to the brim.)

Synonyms

pledge dead duck dead meat

Related words

torrent torrid

Derived words

anchovy toast avocado toast beans on toast brick toast burn one's toast burnt toast theory cheese on toast freedom toast French toast garlic toast have someone on toast honey toast kaya toast loyal toast milk toast pizza toast prawn toast Rocky Mountain toast Shibuya toast shit on toast shrimp toast sunshine toast tea and toast syndrome Texas toast tiger toast toaster toast Hawaii toastmaker toastmaster toast notification toast of the town toast point toast rack toast sandwich toast water tongue toast warm as toast watched toast never burns whatever butters your toast retoast toast up

Translations

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܨܲܘܹܐ Bulgarian: препичам Catalan: torrar Cornish: krasa Dutch: roosteren Estonian: röstima Finnish: paahtaa French: griller Galician: torrar Georgian: შებრაწვა Georgian: დაბრაწვა Icelandic: grilla Ido: rostar Macedonian: потпекува Māori: whakatōhi Polish: opiekać Polish: opiec Portuguese: tostar Portuguese: torrar Quechua: hamk'ay Russian: поджа́ривать Russian: поджа́рить Sicilian: atturrari Sicilian: tustari Sicilian: scaudari Spanish: tostar Spanish: torrar Spanish: turrar Swedish: rosta Thai: ปิ้ง
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