Meaning of toast | Babel Free

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1. Bread that has been toasted (cooked lightly by browning)
2. 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.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
3. Bread that has been toasted (cooked lightly by browning).
   uncountable
4. A proposed salutation (e.g. saying "cheers") while drinking alcohol
5. A proposed salutation (e.g. saying "cheers") while drinking alcohol.
   countable
6. To become toasted: This bread toasts well.
7. A person, group, or notable object to which a salutation with alcohol is made; a person or group held in similar esteem.
   countable
8. A person, group, or notable object to which a salutation with alcohol is made; a person or group held in similar esteem
9. To drink to the health or honor of.
10. To propose or drink a toast.
11. 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.
    US, slang, uncountable
12. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) 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
13. be toast, Slang. to be doomed, ruined, or in trouble: If you come here again, you're toast!
14. Something that will be no more; something subject to impending destruction, harm or injury.
    US, slang, uncountable
15. Something that will be no more; something subject to impending destruction, harm or injury
16. To brown food in a dry heat.
17. A type of extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
    Jamaica, countable, slang
18. The act of drinking to someone:pledge.
19. An old toast ("a lively fellow who drinks excessively").
    countable, obsolete, slang
20. To salute by raising and drinking from a glass:drink, pledge.
21. A transient, informational unclickable pop-up overlay, less interactive than a snackbar.
    countable
22. to make (bread etc) brown in front of direct heat. We toasted slices of bread for tea. rooster يُحَمِّص الخُبْز препичам torrar opékát toasten riste φρυγανίζωtostar röstima برشته کردن paahtaa griller לִקלוֹת भून, सेंक pržiti, prepeći pirít memanggang rista brauð tostare, abbrustolire こんがり焼く 직사열에 노르스름하게 굽다 skrudinti grauzdēt membakar roti roosterenriste brød przypiekać torrar a prăji поджаривать opekať popeči pržiti tost rosta ปิ้ง kızartmak 烤 підрум'янювати (на відкритому вогні); підсмажувати...
    etc
23. A piece of toast.
    countable
24. bread that has been toasted. He always has two pieces of toast for breakfast. roosterbrood خُبْز مُحَمَّص препечена филия torrada topinka der Toast ristet brød; toast φρυγανιάtostada röstsai نان برشته paahtoleipä rôtieטוסט, קלי टोस्टसि की ब्रेड prepečenac pirított kenyér roti panggang ristað brauð toast, (pane tostato/abbrustolito* トースト 구운 빵, 토스트 skrebutis grauzdiņš roti bakar toostristet brødgrzanka torrada toast, pâine prăjită гренок; тост hrianka toast tost rostat bröd ขนมปังปิ้ง kızarmış ...
25. heated by direct heat, eg under a grill. toasted cheese; Do you like your bread toasted? gerooster مُحَمَّص печен torrado opečený geröstet ristet φρυγανισμένος a la parrilla/plancha, tostado röst- برشته شده paahdettu passé sous le gril, grilléקלוי भूना हुआ prepržen pirított panggang ristaður, grillaður tostato, abbrustolito こんがり焼いた 직사열에 구운 paskrudintas grauzdēts bakar geroosterdristet, grillstekt przypiekany, opiekany torrado prăjit поджаренный opečený popečen prepeći varm, grillad, rostad ปิ...
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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.”

“At the reception, there were many toasts from the well-wishers.”

“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.”

“According to the OED, this is a figurative application of sense 1 dating to 1674. It began as an epithet for a lady being supposed to flavour a bumper like a spiced toast placed in that drink. (In this context, a bumper is a drinking vessel filled to the brim)”

“The metal frame survived the fire, but the plastic and rubber bits are toast.”

“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.”

“This chick is toast!”

“With the new Windows Push Notification Service, you can remotely send notifications from a cloud-based web service. In Windows 8, the majority of the Toast messages are standard duration toasts.”

“Go, fetch me a quart of Sacke, put a toſt in't.”

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