From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Toast \Toast\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Toasted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Toasting}.] [OF. toster to roast, toast, fr. L. torrere,
tostum, to parch, roast. See {Torrid}.]
1. To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast
bread.
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2. To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.
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3. To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to
the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Toast \Toast\, n. [OF. toste, or tost['e]e, toasted bread. See
{Toast}, v.]
1. 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.
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My sober evening let the tankard bless,
With toast embrowned, and fragrant nutmeg fraught.
--T. Warton.
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2. 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.
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It now came to the time of Mr. Jones to give a toast
. . . who could not refrain from mentioning his dear
Sophia. --Fielding.
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3. 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.
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{Toast rack}, a small rack or stand for a table, having
partitions for holding slices of dry toast.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
toast
n 1: slices of bread that have been toasted
2: a celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention; "he was
the toast of the town"
3: a person in desperate straits; someone doomed; "I'm a goner
if this plan doesn't work"; "one mistake and you're toast"
[syn: {goner}, {toast}]
4: a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event
[syn: {pledge}, {toast}]
v 1: make brown and crisp by heating; "toast bread"; "crisp
potatoes" [syn: {crispen}, {toast}, {crisp}]
2: propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!"; "Let's
drink to the New Year" [syn: {toast}, {drink}, {pledge},
{salute}, {wassail}]
From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]:
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}.
From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]:
Toast /toːst/
toast
From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]:
toast /tost/
toast
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