toast
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (chiefly uncountable) Toasted bread.Examples: "I ate a piece of toast for breakfast."; "This toast and marmalade tastes heavenly."; "Tea was a very special institution, revolving as it did around the ceremony and worship of Toast. In [public schools] where alcohol, tobacco and drugs were forbidden, it was essential that something should take their place as a powerful and public totem of virility and cool. Toast, for reasons lost in time, was the substance chosen."uncountable
2. (countable) A proposed salutation (e.g. saying "cheers") while drinking alcohol.Examples: "At the reception, there were many toasts from the well-wishers."Synonyms: pledgecountable
3. (countable) A person, group, or notable object to which a salutation with alcohol is made; a person or group held in similar esteem.Examples: "He was the toast of high society."; "Josephine Baker did not become the toast of Paris by just shaking her booty for some theater gypsies as a party wound down."countable
4. (uncountable, slang, chiefly US) Something that is irreparably damaged or used up, especially when destroyed by heat or fire; something which has been burnt to a crisp or incinerated.Examples: "The metal frame survived the fire, but the plastic and rubber bits are toast."USslanguncountable
5. (uncountable, slang, chiefly US) Something that will be no more; something subject to impending destruction, harm or injury.Examples: "to become/be toast"; "If I ever get my hands on the guy that stole my wallet, he’s toast!"; "You are going to be toast if you don't submit your school project on time."Synonyms: dead duck, dead meatUSslanguncountable
6. (countable, music, slang, Jamaica) A type of extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.Jamaicacountableslang
verb (English)
1. (transitive) to cook lightly by browning via direct exposure to a fire or other heat sourceExamples: "We used to enjoy toasting marshmallows around the campfire."transitive
2. (intransitive, specifically) to cook lightly by browning under a grill or in a toaster; to grillExamples: "Top with cheese and toast under the grill for a few minutes."intransitivespecifically
3. (ambitransitive) To engage in a salutation, often with raising of the drinking vessel, while drinking an alcoholic beverage in honor of someone or something.Examples: "We toasted the happy couple many times over the course of the evening."; "You all have achieved so much together thus far, so I think that deserves a toast! Let's toast!"ambitransitive
4. (transitive) To warm thoroughly.Examples: "I toasted my feet by the fire."transitive
5. (music, slang, Jamaica) To perform an extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.Examples: "Toasting over a record does more than change the way that record is perceived by the audience: it creates a new piece of music with joint creative authorship, although the law does not support this characterization."Jamaicaslang
name (English)
1. (databases) Initialism of The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique: a mechanism in PostgreSQL that allows rows of data to exceed the normal maximum size by splitting off part of the data into an auxiliary table.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism
Definition source: Wiktionary