toast
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
entertainment
graphical-user-interface
lifestyle
mathematics
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
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.)
Inflected forms:
form: toasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tost
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: toasts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: toasting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: toasted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: toasted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tost
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Bread that has been toasted (cooked lightly by browning).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I ate a piece of toast for breakfast.
This toast and marmalade tastes heavenly.
Tea was a very special institution, revolving as it did around the ceremony and worship of Toast. In [public schools] where alcohol, tobacco and drugs were forbidden, it was essential that something should take their place as a powerful and public totem of virility and cool. Toast, for reasons lost in time, was the substance chosen.
gloss: A proposed salutation (e.g. saying "cheers") while drinking alcohol.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: At the reception, there were many toasts from the well-wishers.
The evening meal was "a repast of most recherché description," involving an endless series of toasts to almost everybody (with the notable exception of the other railway already serving Brentford, which came in for some hard knocks from various speakers).
gloss: A person, group, or notable object to which a salutation with alcohol is made; a person or group held in similar esteem.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: He was the toast of high society.
Josephine Baker did not become the toast of Paris by just shaking her booty for some theater gypsies as a party wound down.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
uncountable
examples: The metal frame survived the fire, but the plastic and rubber bits are toast.
gloss: Something that will be no more; something subject to impending destruction, harm or injury.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
uncountable
examples: to become/be toast
If I ever get my hands on the guy that stole my wallet, he’s toast!
You are going to be toast if you don't submit your school project on time.
In the script, as the Ghostbusters train their proton blasters on Gozer, Murray's character says, "That's it! I'm gonna turn this guy into toast." By the time the scene was shot, the filmmakers had decided the human form of Gozer should be played by the model Slavitza Jovan. Murray improvised various comments about her, including changing the line in the script to "This chick is toast." The Oxford English Dictionary recognizes Murray's ad-lib as the earliest known occurrence of "toast" with the modern meaning, calling the usage "proleptic."
He [P. Hegseth] said the Iranian regime “are toast, and they know it, or at least soon enough, they will know it.”
gloss: A type of extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
pos: noun
tags: Jamaica
countable
slang
gloss: An old toast ("a lively fellow who drinks excessively").
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
slang
gloss: A transient, informational pop-up overlay, less interactive than a snackbar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: With the new Windows Push Notification Service, you can remotely send notifications from a cloud-based web service. In Windows 8, the majority of the Toast messages are standard duration toasts.
gloss: A piece of toast.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Go, fetch me a quart of Sacke, put a toſt in't.
gloss: To cook lightly by browning by means of direct exposure to a fire or other heat source.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We used to enjoy toasting marshmallows around the campfire.
gloss: To cook lightly by browning under a grill or in a toaster; to grill.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
specifically
examples: Top with cheese and toast under the grill for a few minutes.
gloss: To engage in a salutation, often with raising of the drinking vessel, while drinking an alcoholic beverage in honor of someone or something.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: We toasted the happy couple many times over the course of the evening.
You all have achieved so much together thus far, so I think that deserves a toast! Let's toast!
gloss: To warm thoroughly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I toasted my feet by the fire.
gloss: To perform an extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
pos: verb
tags: Jamaica
slang
examples: Toasting over a record does more than change the way that record is perceived by the audience: it creates a new piece of music with joint creative authorship, although the law does not support this characterization.
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
comatoast
freedom toast
French toast
garlic toast
have someone on toast
honey toast
kaya toast
loyal toast
milktoast
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
toastcrumb
toastee
toaster
toast Hawaii
toastie
toastless
toastlike
toastmaker
toastmaster
toastmistress
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
toastable
toast up
Translations:
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܨܲܘܹܐ
roman: ṣawwē
lang: Asturian
word: turriar
lang: Bulgarian
word: препичам
roman: prepičam
lang: Catalan
word: torrar
lang: Cornish
word: krasa
lang: Dutch
word: roosteren
lang: Estonian
word: röstima
lang: Finnish
word: paahtaa
lang: French
word: griller
lang: Galician
word: torrar
lang: Georgian
word: შებრაწვა
roman: šebrac̣va
lang: Georgian
word: დაბრაწვა
roman: dabrac̣va
lang: Icelandic
word: grilla
lang: Ido
word: rostar
lang: Macedonian
word: потпекува
roman: potpekuva
lang: Māori
word: whakatōhi
lang: Polish
word: opiekać
lang: Polish
word: opiec
lang: Portuguese
word: tostar
lang: Portuguese
word: torrar
lang: Quechua
word: hamk'ay
lang: Russian
word: поджа́ривать
roman: podžárivatʹ
lang: Russian
word: поджа́рить
roman: podžáritʹ
lang: Sicilian
word: atturrari
lang: Sicilian
word: tustari
lang: Sicilian
word: scaudari
lang: Spanish
word: tostar
lang: Spanish
word: torrar
lang: Spanish
word: turrar
lang: Swedish
word: rosta
lang: Thai
word: ปิ้ง
roman: bpîng