v. t. | 1. | To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; | |||
2. | To warm thoroughly; | ||||
3. | To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; | ||||
n. | 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. | |||
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. | ||||
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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Noun | 1. | toast - slices of bread that have been toasted |
2. | toast - a celebrity who receives much accalim and attention; "he was the toast of the town" | |
3. | toast - a person in desperate straits; someone doomed; "I'm a goner if this plan doesn't work"; "one mistake and you're toast" Synonyms: goner | |
4. | toast - a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event Synonyms: pledge | |
Verb | 1. | toast - make brown and crisp by heating; "toast bread"; "crisp potatoes" Synonyms: crisp |
2. | toast - propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!"; "Let's drink to the New Year" |
(jargon) | toast - 1. Any completely inoperable system or component,
especially one that has just crashed and burned: "Uh, oh ... I
think the serial board is toast." 2. To cause a system to crash accidentally, especially in a manner that requires manual rebooting. "Rick just toasted the firewall machine again." Compare fried. |