What's the difference between oast and toast?

Oast


Definition:

  • (n.) A kiln to dry hops or malt; a cockle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) R oasted peanuts – tanner a bag” – the first words I ever heard at Upton Park, on the old North Bank.

Toast


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.
  • (v. t.) To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.
  • (v. t.) To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.
  • (v.) 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.
  • (v.) 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.
  • (v.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The favorable effects of up to 25% toasted soybean meal and 3% licorice root extract on the levels of the four enzymes, without unfavorable changes in clinical parameters, might account in part for the chemopreventive activities of these additives.
  • (2) As the clock struck and glasses clinked, we toasted the new.
  • (3) Fifty friends and family came here to his wake and toasted his memory with vintage jeroboams of La Tâche, perhaps the most distinguished of all burgundies.
  • (4) However, even if you prefer Marmite to marmalade on your toast, citrus peel is a powerful tool in the kitchen, especially at this time of year, when bright, fresh flavours are at a premium.
  • (5) The company previously attracted heavy criticism with plans to eliminate the morning perk of free tea and toast handed out to staff across 230 stores.
  • (6) Downstairs I had black coffee, kippers, and brown toast in the breakfast room.
  • (7) Eat Natural toasted buckwheat muesli, £3 Breakfast choices can be particularly limited if you're gluten-free – this muesli shows they don't have to be.
  • (8) English wine is to be the toast of the country’s farmers this week, with more than £100m in sales expected this year for sparkling and still varieties combined, the environment secretary will announce on Wednesday.
  • (9) 42 mins: Lovely play by Dindane on the right wing, jinking inside and leaving Coentrao (who has terrible golden-toasted blond highlights from 1986) on his backside.
  • (10) If it was for print, I could have written about the toast.
  • (11) ‘We were simple as doves, wise as serpents’: Portugal toast Euro 2016 win Read more Has any player been through as many contrasting emotions in the space of a major final?
  • (12) Four severely and multiply handicapped students were trained to perform four tasks: (a) making toast, (b) making popcorn, (c) operating a clothes dryer, and (d) operating a washing machine.
  • (13) After the feeding of untoasted soybean oilmeal a significant increase of the secretion volume and of protein outpour could be observed in contrast to toasted soybean oilmeal within 24 h. The heat-labile soybean trypsin inhibitor also caused an activity increase of the pancreatic enzymes.
  • (14) As for Mr Mitchell, in private his cabinet colleagues were saying that he was "toast".
  • (15) But there was also a diversion into why, across the industrialised world, the numbers of diagnosed autistic people have increased, and two sentences that caused me to spit out my toast.
  • (16) But someone should dig up the pictures of David and Mirket as they toasted the launch of their new party.
  • (17) Bidisha : Two sexist remarks and one misogynist one At a major literary festival, before an event about military fiction, a posh famous English author smirked to me, "What's the difference between a woman and a piece of toast?
  • (18) I wish I could be there with you to raise a toast, but I’m in New Orleans, poor me.
  • (19) He is one of life’s natural addicts – not just drugs, but sex, work, success, avocado on toast.
  • (20) On approaching the nursing station, they had found a staff member enjoying tea and toast with her feet up on a chair.