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Toast
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- 1 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
- 1 Bread that has been toasted (cooked lightly by browning). uncountable
"I ate a piece of toast for breakfast."
- 2 slices of bread that have been toasted wordnet
- 3 A proposed salutation (e.g. saying "cheers") while drinking alcohol. countable
"At the reception, there were many toasts from the well-wishers."
- 4 a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event wordnet
- 5 A person, group, or notable object to which a salutation with alcohol is made; a person or group held in similar esteem. countable
"He was the toast of high society."
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- 6 a person in desperate straits; someone doomed wordnet
- 7 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
"The metal frame survived the fire, but the plastic and rubber bits are toast."
- 8 a celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention wordnet
- 9 Something that will be no more; something subject to impending destruction, harm or injury. US, slang, uncountable
"to become/be toast"
- 10 A type of extemporaneous narrative poem or rap. Jamaica, countable, slang
- 11 An old toast ("a lively fellow who drinks excessively"). countable, obsolete, slang
- 12 A transient, informational unclickable pop-up overlay, less interactive than a snackbar. countable
"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."
- 13 A piece of toast. countable
"Go, fetch me a quart of Sacke, put a toſt in't."
- 1 To cook lightly by browning via direct exposure to a fire or other heat source. transitive
"We used to enjoy toasting marshmallows around the campfire."
- 2 make brown and crisp by heating wordnet
- 3 To cook lightly by browning under a grill or in a toaster; to grill. intransitive, specifically
"Top with cheese and toast under the grill for a few minutes."
- 4 propose a toast to wordnet
- 5 To engage in a salutation, often with raising of the drinking vessel, while drinking an alcoholic beverage in honor of someone or something. ambitransitive
"We toasted the happy couple many times over the course of the evening."
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- 6 To warm thoroughly. transitive
"I toasted my feet by the fire."
- 7 To perform an extemporaneous narrative poem or rap. Jamaica, slang
"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."
Etymology
From Middle English tost, from the verb tosten (see below).
From Middle English tosten, from Old French toster (“to roast, grill”), from Latin tostus (“grilled, burnt”), from verb torreō (“to burn, grill”).
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