toast

• WordNet 3.6
  • v toast make brown and crisp by heating "toast bread","crisp potatoes"
  • v toast propose a toast to "Let us toast the birthday girl!","Let's drink to the New Year"
  • n toast slices of bread that have been toasted
  • n toast a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event
  • n toast a person in desperate straits; someone doomed "I'm a goner if this plan doesn't work","one mistake and you're toast"
  • n toast a celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention "he was the toast of the town"
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• Interesting fact: A piece of French toast that was partially eaten by Justin Timberlake sold on eBay
• • Toast 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. "It now came to the time of Mr. Jones to give a toast . . . who could not refrain from mentioning his dear Sophia."
  • Toast 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. "My sober evening let the tankard bless,
    With toast embrowned, and fragrant nutmeg fraught."
  • Toast 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.
  • Toast To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.
  • Toast To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.
  • Toast To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.
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• Interesting fact: In 1983, a Japanese artist, Tadahiko Ogawa, made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of ordinary toast
• • n toast Bread in slices superficially browned by the fire; a slice of bread so browned.
  • toast To brown by the heat of a fire: as, to toast bread or bacon.
  • toast To warm thoroughly: as, to toast one's feet.
  • toast To brown with heat.
  • toast To warm one's self thoroughly at a fire.
  • n toast A person whose health is drunk, or who is named as the person to whom others are requested to drink; especially, a woman who is the reigning belle of the season, or in some other way is specially indicated as a person often toasted; also, anything, as a political cause, the memory of a person, etc., to which a company is requested to drink.
  • n toast A call on another or others to drink to the health of some person named, or to the prosperity of some cause, etc,: often accompanied by a sentiment or motto; also, the act of thus drinking.
  • n toast One who drinks to excess; a soaker.
  • toast To drink as a toast; drink to the health of; wish success or prosperity to in drinking; also, to designate as the person or subject to whom or to which other persons are requested to drink; propose the health of.
  • toast To drink a toast or toasts; also, to propose a toast or toasts.
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• Interesting fact: Melba toast is named after an Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba
• • v.t Toast tōst to dry and scorch at the fire: to name when a health is drunk: to drink to the health of
  • v.i Toast to drink toasts
  • n Toast bread toasted: a slice of such dipped in liquor: the person or thing named whose health is to be drunk
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• Dick Martin

  

  “I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.”
• Helen Rowland

  

  “Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.”
• Wedding Toast

  

  “Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men!”
• Ernest Hemingway

  

  “This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.”

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