toaster

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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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

toaster (ˈtəʊstə)

—n
	a device for toasting bread, usually electric, and often equipped with an automatic timer

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toaster

n.
1. The archetypal really stupid application for an embedded microprocessor controller; often used in comments that imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology (but see elevator controller). "DWIM for an assembler? That'd be as silly as running Unix on your toaster (http://www.phys.uu.nl/~beljaars/reddwarf/script/4/4.whi)!"
2. A very, very dumb computer. "You could run this program on any dumb toaster." See bitty box, Get a real computer!, toy, beige toaster.
3. A Macintosh, esp. the Classic Mac. Some hold that this is implied by sense
2.
4. A peripheral device. "I bought my box without toasters, but since then I've added two boards and a second disk drive."
5. A specialized computer used as an appliance. See web toaster, video toaster.

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toaster definition

jargon
1. The archetypal really stupid application for an embedded microprocessor controller; often used in comments that imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology (but see elevator controller). "DWIM for an assembler? That'd be as silly as running Unix on your toaster!"
2. A very, very dumb computer. "You could run this program on any dumb toaster."
See bitty box, Get a real computer!, toy, beige toaster.
3. A Macintosh, especially the Classic Mac. Some hold that this is implied by sense 2.
4. A peripheral device. "I bought my box without toasters, but since then I've added two boards and a second disk drive".
This is not usually to be taken literally but, to show off the expansion capabilities of the Risc PC, Acorn Computers Ltd. built a seven-slice machine (which they called "the rocket-ship") and installed every imaginable peripheral. In a spare drive bay of the top slice they installed a toaster. This machine was exhibited at various shows where it attracted attention by occasionally ejecting a pizza.
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