(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.
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.