What's the difference between coaster and toaster?

Coaster


Definition:

  • (n.) A vessel employed in sailing along a coast, or engaged in the coasting trade.
  • (n.) One who sails near the shore.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This a time when these crucial policies, central to everyone’s lives and the future of the nation, have been on a roller coaster ride through years of political disruption.
  • (2) Thus for many, the IVF-ET procedures were like an emotional roller coaster on which they experienced a wide range of feelings during a brief period of time.
  • (3) The sweeping shape is reminiscent of melted roller coaster ride, or as one Twitter user put it: "It looks like congealed intestines".
  • (4) The reality is that life’s a roller coaster – up and down, backwards and forwards, with everyone moving at different speeds.
  • (5) Gift shops were selling artists' posters, greeting cards, mugs and coasters for a fraction of the price.
  • (6) Then, in an unrelated incident two weeks after the shooting, the town's famous Grade II listed roller-coaster, which featured in an episode of Only Fools and Horses, was subject to a major arson attack that destroyed almost a third of its frame.
  • (7) But this leaves a roller-coaster in spending with cuts in the first three years and then a splurge at the end of the next parliament.
  • (8) But it is the hosts who seem more anxious ahead of a potentially roller-coaster match against opponents of reliably relentless energy and craft.
  • (9) We glimpse the record player amid stacks of coasters, magazines and empty cigarette cartons.
  • (10) A news helicopter hovered overhead, along with a swarm of television news trucks in what is ordinarily a tranquil meadow in a large, wooded section within sight of a roller coaster at the Kings Dominion amusement park along Interstate 95.
  • (11) The diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor can thrust a patient and family onto an emotional roller coaster.
  • (12) Purchase whale-stamped coasters, decorative fish, or seashell trays made from bamboo—proceeds go to the Monterey Bay Aquarium .
  • (13) Then there are the plates, the coasters, the Christmas ornaments.
  • (14) The coaster is touted as the tallest steel-hybrid roller coaster in the world.
  • (15) The news comes after a roller-coaster week for the president, who disappointed many with a lacklustre performance in the first presidential debate against Mitt Romney , before Friday brought encouraging news on the jobs front .
  • (16) A second fear survey which contained duplicate items from the first was administered to the same students in a laboratory setting prior to watching videotaped scenes of fish, rats, mice and a shorter roller coaster ride.
  • (17) Days after the roller-coaster was torched, two men strolled into the Tivoli arcade, one of the few remaining on the seafront, and doused its slot machines in petrol before setting them on fire, causing £500,000 of damage.
  • (18) That means the markets will go up and down like a roller coaster, and it will be hard to hold on.
  • (19) Tea is served on souvenir coasters from Manchester, the city she represents in parliament, and to which she returns each Friday.
  • (20) The roller-coaster is on prime land just behind Margate's sea front where a number of other buildings have been torched in mysterious circumstances.

Toaster


Definition:

  • (n.) One who toasts.
  • (n.) A kitchen utensil for toasting bread, cheese, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She says it began as a "defence mechanism" – "it gets you out of so many sticky situations" – but it has now become the means by which Delevingne communicates her sense of fun, in a world where most models seem to adopt a bored, peevish expression of someone queuing to return a faulty toaster in Argos.
  • (2) Similarly: Don't use your toaster as a bathtub toy, don't juggle live hand grenades and never put salt in your eyes .
  • (3) The most popular items bought online were TV and audio equipment, laptops and games items, but customers also snapped up domestic appliances such as kettles, fryers, slow cookers, toasters and vacuum cleaners.
  • (4) It’s a mystery up there with dark matter and the question of why you still can’t buy a toaster that browns both sides of the bread equally: why do batteries suck?
  • (5) The Braun electric toaster, which he made the subject of the haunting image Toaster of 1967, was part of a lifelong fascination with industrial design.
  • (6) On two occasions soybean meals were custom prepared by changing the temperature and the retention time (RT) of the desolventizer-toaster unit at a commercial soybean processing plant.
  • (7) The aim is to prevent millions of tonnes of toxic TVs, personal computers, toasters and other electronic goods being dumped into landfill each year.
  • (8) Since the fire brigade has had to warn men not to put their genitals in a toaster , we are reminded of all the A&E stories of the many men who get their tackle trapped in everything from radiators to vacuum cleaners.
  • (9) The SBM were custom-prepared at a commercial processing plant by changing the conditions of a desolventizer-toaster (DT) unit.
  • (10) Shoppers buying anything from toasters to cars now have 30 days to reject a faulty item and demand a full refund, clarifying previously vague rules on how long this period should last.
  • (11) "He'd then end up on the back of the toaster for twelve months before skulking back to the fridge and hoping that everyone forgets about his former delusions regarding his abilities and profile."
  • (12) An early indication could come from counting the number of Frigidaire sandwich toasters, which will be handed out to new account customers.
  • (13) They’ve turned [the toasters] all down, and that’s why you can’t get decent toast,” he claimed to Buzzfeed.
  • (14) I understand that behind the decision to delay this legislation lies in Brexit and newspaper populism of the kind we saw with the toaster story,” he said.
  • (15) The ecodesign regulations have been disputed and the commission has had bad press, and maybe they are particularly sensitive about this.” But this did not prevent negative press last week after the Ukip MEP David Coburn mistakenly tweeted that existing regulations had weakened his toaster.
  • (16) The Restart Project in London hosts parties that help people fix broken electronic goods from toasters to iPads.
  • (17) It can therefore only be a matter of time before we get a Sophie’s Choice remake by John Lewis, in which Meryl Streep has to choose between a beloved child and a four-slot chrome toaster.
  • (18) Some hours later, both the sky and my mood are as grey as ever until eventually, despondently warming my hands over the toaster, I finally spot the stale wedges of bread that have been in front of me the whole time.
  • (19) Pearson starts to uncover the drives of the savage consumers of Middle England who lug home refrigerators, toasters, televisions, beat up Asian shopkeepers and lavish affection on the three giant teddy bears sitting in the atrium of the Metro-Centre.
  • (20) Exports of everything from toasters to car parts fuelled an astonishing rise in living standards, much of it stashed in local banks or invested in government debt.

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