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noun

sliced bread that has been browned by dry heat.

verb (used with object)

to brown, as bread or cheese, by exposure to heat.

to heat or warm thoroughly at a fire: She toasted her feet at the fireplace.

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verb (used without object)

to become toasted.

Idiom

be toast, Slang. to be doomed, ruined, or in trouble: If you're late to work again, you're toast!

Origin:
1350–1400; (v.) Middle English to(o)sten < Middle French toster < Vulgar Latin *tostāre, derivative of Latin tostus (< *torstos), past participle of torrēre to parch, roast, from a base *tors-, akin to Gothic thaursus, Old Norse thurr dry; (noun) late Middle English to(o)ste, derivative of the v.; see torrid, thirst

Example Sentences

Lightly toast the bread and rub with the remaining cut garlic.

Fruit preserves are a delicious enhancement to breakfast toast.

Their fatal mistake, perhaps, was to toast the birth of the single currency with champagne and smoked salmon canapés.

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Lightly toast the bread and rub with the remaining cut garlic.

Fruit preserves are a delicious enhancement to breakfast toast.

Their fatal mistake, perhaps, was to toast the birth of the single currency with champagne and smoked salmon canapés.

Cook until brown on both sides and keep covered on a separate plate until all toast is cooked.

As the holiday season gets underway, many people will toast the season with spirits.

They liked to joke that their wives were fat because they buttered their toast on both sides.

Serve the chili loaf with coleslaw or green salad and toast made from the center you've pulled out of the bread.

Toast is the primary medium of divine revelation today.

Had my thesis defense and standard champagne toast in our lab.

Just avoid talking politics, and be sure to toast your host at dinner.

Wipe chilis clean and toast gently in a large, heavy skillet or griddle.

With the holidays approaching, so too come opportunities to toast the season.

Snowpocalypse scrapple with ketchup, served with a side of toast.

Many wines that have been fermented and/or aged in new oak barrels take on a toasty character not unlike that of buttered toast.

The toast actually raises itself from the machine halfway through to cycle so you can check its progress.

Aggie accent and unimpressive debate performance and he is toast.

There were also goats on the farm that really liked our leftover toast.

And basically means were toast as a global civilization in the near future.

While they're cooking, toast a handful of walnuts over medium heat in a heavy-bottomed pan until they're fragrant and golden.

In the time it takes your computer to boot up, you can probably make some toast or a cup of tea before the thing is ready to use.

Once, this was only for commemorating commemorate a toast stateside.

And if your kids haven't crashed, toast marshmallows together under the stars.

While the pot simmers, brush some slices of country bread or levain with olive oil and toast them, to serve with the hot soup.

Avoid putting jam on the burnt toast to flavor it up, as the sugar will not help you feel better.

It was all rounded off with a toast to a beautiful woman singled out by a member of the club.

Briefly return to oven to toast almonds, then sprinkle with sugar and serve.

We dolloped the truffle butter onto hot linguine and spread it on toast.

Rahul is toast politically, though he has thus far failed to drop dead.

She was tempted by the idea of having tea made in a china pot and served with buttered toast.

Lining around the bottom on the inside is soft on the ears and warm as toast.

We toast a city that still continues to surprise and delight.

If your toaster breaks it doesn't become impossible to make toast.

They are thick, comfortable and keep my toes as warm as toast.

Nothing really beats fresh fruit captured at its peak of ripeness and slathered on a piece of buttery toast.

If the power station chosen happened to be running at full capacity, no toast.

No-frills shoreside bar that's the place to toast the sunset.

Add chile flakes and toast for a second, then add broccoli rabe.

The point is that they are only toast at that point if one is racially profiling.

Grill or toast until crostini are lightly browned and crispy on the outside but still chewy on the inside.

Lightly steamed then on a piece of wholemeal toast with some chopped parsley and butter.

If you didn't know what you were doing, you'd be toast on the provost's carpet in no time.

For the home cook, it's easier to toast the rolls first.

Like tying a slice of buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropping it, the prospect of.

Drain on paper towels and serve hot, each prune on a rectangle of toast.

On the airplane home enjoy a pleasant drink, chuckle, and toast your good luck at being so well prepared to be a left fielder.

Lay a slice of toast in each of six deep soup bowls, and top with a poached egg.

Quit borrowing trouble and continue to toast to their continued health and longevity on their birthdays.

His menu includes snail porridge, sardine on toast sorbet and salmon poached with liquorice.

But now that we're older and have the patience to toast our.

You'll then commence pouring the bubbly, and offer a witty toast.

Repeat with the remaining soup and toast and more of the oil, ending with a layer of soup.

If our pyrotechnician is lighting a fuse at the same time that a bomb next to it explodes, he's toast.

Push the toast gently with a spoon to insure that it is submerged.

We use it to say thank you informally ie cheers for that or as an acknowledgement, or when raising a toast.

Lukewarm coffee is every bit as delicious as cold toast or warm beer.

Just make sure to include some aquavit for a postdinner toast to the cooks, past and present, who keep.

While the toast is still warm, cut the unpeeled clove of garlic in half and.

Go to a street party, toast the happy couple and lighten up.

Serve the cheese on warm plates surrounded by garlic toast slices.

Poached eggs expertly done, the toast in triangles, the juice fresh squeezed.

Serve with dill and mustard sauce on the side and buttered toast triangles.

Serve in small portions with buttered toast triangles.

Serve in small portions with dill and mustard sauce on the side and buttered toast triangles.

Arrange the meat balls on toast and spoon equal amounts of the yogurt sauce over each serving.

Spread mixture thickly on toast and put under broiler until bubbly and edges of toast are crisp.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

a salutation or a few words of congratulation, good wishes, appreciation, remembrance, etc., uttered immediately before drinking to a person, event, etc.

a person, event, sentiment, or the like, in honor of whom another or others raise their glasses in salutation and then drink.

an act or instance of thus drinking: They drank a toast to the queen.

a call on another or others to drink to some person or thing.

a person who is celebrated as with the spirited homage of a toast: She was the toast of five continents.

verb (used with object)

to drink to the health of or in honor of; propose a toast to or in honor of.

to propose as a toast.

verb (used without object)

to propose or drink a toast.

Origin:
1690–1700; figurative use of toast¹ (noun); the name of a lady so honored was said to give flavor to the drink comparable to that given by spiced toast

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Collins

World English Dictionary

toast¹ (təʊst)

—n
1.	sliced bread browned by exposure to heat, usually under a grill, over a fire, or in a toaster
2.	informal be toast to face certain destruction or defeat

—vb
3.	(tr) to brown under a grill or over a fire: to toast cheese
4.	to warm or be warmed in a similar manner: to toast one's hands by the fire

[C14: from Old French toster, from Latin tōstus parched, baked from torrēre to dry with heat; see thirst, torrid]

toast² (təʊst)

—n
1.	a tribute or proposal of health, success, etc, given to a person or thing by a company of people and marked by raising glasses and drinking together
2.	a person or thing honoured by such a tribute or proposal
3.	(esp formerly) an attractive woman to whom such tributes are frequently made: she was the toast of the town

—vb
4.	to propose or drink a toast to (a person or thing)
5.	(intr) See also rap to add vocal effects to a prerecorded track: a disc-jockey technique

[C17 (in the sense: a lady to whom the company is asked to drink): from toast¹,from the idea that the name of the lady would flavour the drink like a piece of spiced toast]

'toaster²

—n

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

toast

"to brown with heat," late 14c., from O.Fr. toster "to toast or grill" (12c.), from V.L. *tostare (cf. It. tostare, Sp. tostar), frequentative of L. torrere (pp. tostus) "to parch" (see terrain). The noun meaning "a toasted piece of bread" is attested from early 15c.; slang

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meaning "a goner, person or thing already doomed or destroyed" is recorded by 1987, perhaps from notion of computer circuits being "fried," and with unconscious echoes of earlier fig. phrase to be had on toast (1886) "to be served up for eating." Toaster in the electrical appliance sense first recorded 1913. Toasty "warm and comfortable" is recorded from 1890.

toast

"a call to drink to someone's health," 1700 (but said by Steele, 1709, to date to the reign of Charles II), originally referring to the beautiful or popular woman whose health is proposed and drunk, from the use of spiced toast to flavor drink, the lady regarded as figuratively adding piquancy to the

wine in which her health was drunk. The verb meaning "to propose or drink a toast" also is first recorded 1700. This probably is the source of the Jamaican and U.S. black word meaning "extemporaneous narrative poem or rap" (1962).

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Slang Dictionary

toast definition

n.
a drunkard. : The old toast stumbled in front of a car.
mod.
excellent. : This stuff is so toast!
mod.
burned; done for. : If you don't get here in twenty minutes, you're toast.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Computing Dictionary

toast definition

jargon
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)

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Idioms & Phrases

toast

see warm as toast.

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