Definitions for TOAST
toʊsttoast

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. toastnoun

   slices of bread that have been toasted

2. toastnoun

   a celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention

   "he was the toast of the town"

3. goner, toastnoun

   a person in desperate straits; someone doomed

   "I'm a goner if this plan doesn't work"; "one mistake and you're toast"

4. pledge, toastverb

   a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event

5. crispen, toast, crispverb

   make brown and crisp by heating

   "toast bread"; "crisp potatoes"

6. toast, drink, pledge, salute, wassailverb

   propose a toast to

   "Let us toast the birthday girl!"; "Let's drink to the New Year"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. toastnoun

   Toasted bread.

2. toastnoun

   A proposed salutation (e.g. to say "cheers") while drinking alcohol.

   At the reception, there were many toasts from the well-wishers.

3. toastnoun

   A person, group, or notable object to which a salutation with alcohol is made; a person or group held in similar esteem.

   He was the toast of high society.

4. toastnoun

   Something that will be no more; something subject to impending destruction, harm or injury.

   If I ever get my hands on the guy that stole my wallet, he's toast!

5. toastnoun

   Extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.

6. toastnoun

   A software engineering term for a transient, pop-up informational window

7. toastverb

   To lightly cook by browning via direct exposure to a fire or other heat source.

   We liked to toast marshmallows around the campfire.

8. toastverb

   To grill, lightly cook by browning specifically under a grill or in a toaster

   Top with cheese and toast under the grill for a few minutes.

9. toastverb

   To engage in a salutation and/or accompanying raising of glasses while drinking alcohol in honor of someone or something.

   We toasted the happy couple many times over the course of the evening.

10. toastverb

    To perform extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.

11. Etymology: From toster (to roast, to grill), from tostus (grilled, burnt, from verb torrere (to burn, to grill)).

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Toastnoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. Bread dried before the fire.

   You are both as rheumatick as two dry toasts; you cannot one bear with another’s confirmities. William Shakespeare, Henry IV.

   Every third day take a small toast of manchet, dipped in oil of sweet almonds new drawn, and sprinkled with loaf sugar. Francis Bacon, Physical Remains.

   2. Bread dried and put into liquor.

   Where’s then the saucy boat
   Co-rival’d greatness? or to harbour fled,
   Or made a toast for Neptune? William Shakespeare, Troil. and Cressida.

   Some squire, perhaps, you take delight to rack;
   Whose game is whisk, whose treat a toast in sack. Alexander Pope.

   3. A celebrated woman whose health is often drunk.

   I shall likewise mark out every toast, the club in which she was elected, and the number of votes that were on her side. Joseph Addison, Guard. №. 107.

   Say, why are beauties prais’d and honour’d most,
   The wise man’s passion, and the vain man’s toast?
   Why deck’d with all that land and sea afford,
   Why angels call’d, and angel-like ador’d? Alexander Pope.

2. To Toastverb

   Etymology: torreo, tostum, Lat.

   1. To dry or heat at the fire.

   Put up thy sword betime,
   Or I’ll so maul you and your toasting iron. William Shakespeare.

   His breath stinks with eating toasted cheese. William Shakespeare.

   The earth whereof the grass is soon parched with the sun, and toasted, is commonly forced earth. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.

   To allure mice I find no other magick, than to draw out a piece of toasted cheese. Brown.

   2. To name when a health is drunk. To toast is used commonly when women are named.

   Several popish gentlemen toasted many loyal healths. Add.

   We’ll try the empire you so long have boasted;
   And if we are not prais’d, we’ll not be toasted. Matthew Prior.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. toast

   Toast is a type of food made by browning bread in a toaster, over a fire, or other high heat source. It is often consumed with butter, jam, or other spreads. Moreover, toast also refers to a type of speech expressing honor or good wishes, typically made before a communal drinking at a social event.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. Toastverb

   to dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread

2. Toastverb

   to warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet

3. Toastverb

   to name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady

4. Toast

   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

5. Toast

   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

6. Toast

   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

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Toast

   Toast is bread that has been browned by exposure to radiant heat. This browning is the result of a Maillard reaction. Toasting warms the bread and makes it firmer, so it holds toppings more securely. Toasting is a common method of making stale bread more palatable.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Toast

   tōst, v.t. to dry and scorch at the fire: to name when a health is drunk: to drink to the health of.—v.i. to drink toasts.—n. bread toasted: a slice of such dipped in liquor: the person or thing named whose health is to be drunk.—ns. Toast′er, one who, or that which, toasts; Toast′ing-fork, -ī′ron, a long-handled fork for toasting bread: a sword; Toast′-mas′ter, the master and announcer of toasts at public dinners; Toast′-rack, a stand, with partitions for slices of toast, for setting on the table. [O. Fr. toster—L. tostus, roasted, pa.p. of torrēre.]

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

Matched Categories

1. • Bread
   • Celebrity
   • Desperate
   • Honor

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'TOAST' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3045

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'TOAST' in Nouns Frequency: #2965

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Anagrams for TOAST »

1. stoat

2. toats

How to pronounce TOAST?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say TOAST in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of TOAST in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of TOAST in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of TOAST in a Sentence

1. Brent Robertson:

   That's State Kris Kobach only path to victory — is this thing getting more and more crowded, if State Kris Kobach gets Roger Marshall one-on-one, State Kris Kobach's absolute toast.

2. Becket Executive Director Montse Alvarado:

   A hearty bah-humbug toast to university officials who make Christian and Jewish students feel like second class citizens at a time that should be full of brotherly love and giving.

3. Jane Fonda:

   Frankie is concerned about vaginal dryness being a problem, so she gives me her vaginal lubricant that she has made from yams and I thought it was jam and have been putting it on my toast.

4. My Nguyen:

   Custard toast is a complete meal with complex carbs if you choose a whole grain bread, protein and fat from the Greek yogurt and eggs and micronutrients and antioxidants from the berries, the drizzle of maple syrup or agave slightly sweetens it up so you have all the pleasure points of sweet and savory.

5. Kirk Smith:

   That part of my lung is now toast, if I hadn’t gotten it checked, I may have gotten to stage 4 [lung cancer].

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=TOAST
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Toast
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=TOAST
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/TOAST
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=TOAST
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=TOAST
8. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Toast
9. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=TOAST