toast
(noun) slices of bread that have been toasted
pledge, toast
(noun) a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event
goner, toast
(noun) a person in desperate straits; someone doomed; “I’m a goner if this plan doesn’t work”; “one mistake and you’re toast”
toast
(noun) a celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention; “he was the toast of the town”
crispen, toast, crisp
(verb) make brown and crisp by heating; “toast bread”; “crisp potatoes”
toast, drink, pledge, salute, wassail
(verb) propose a toast to; “Let us toast the birthday girl!”; “Let’s drink to the New Year”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
TOAST
(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.
• stato-, stoat, tasto, toats, totas
toast (countable and uncountable, plural toasts)
(uncountable) Toasted bread.
(countable) A proposed salutation (e.g. to say "cheers") while drinking alcohol.
(countable) A person, group, or notable object to which a salutation with alcohol is made; a person or group held in similar esteem.
(slang, chiefly US, uncountable) Something that will be no more; something subject to impending destruction, harm or injury.
(slang, Jamaica) Extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
(computing, GUI) A transient, informational pop-up window.
The slang sense of something or someone subject to impending destruction is most commonly found predicatively in the combination be (or become) toast.
toast (third-person singular simple present toasts, present participle toasting, simple past and past participle toasted)
To lightly cook by browning via direct exposure to a fire or other heat source.
To grill, lightly cook by browning specifically under a grill or in a toaster
To engage in a salutation and/or accompanying raising of glasses while drinking alcohol in honor of someone or something.
To warm thoroughly.
(slang, Jamaica) To perform extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
• stato-, stoat, tasto, toats, totas
Source: Wiktionary
Toast, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Toasting.] Etym: [OF. toster to roast, toast, fr. L. torrere, tostum, to parch, roast. See Torrid.]
1. To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.
2. To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.
3. 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, n. Etym: [OF. toste, or tostée, toasted bread. See Toast, v.]
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. toaster. My sober evening let the tankard bless, With toast embrowned, and fragrant nutmeg fraught. T. Warton.
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. It now came to the time of Mr. Jones to give a toast . . . who could not refrain from mentioning his dear Sophia. Fielding.
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. Toast rack, a small rack or stand for a table, having partitions for holding slices of dry toast.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
Coffee starts as a yellow berry, changes into a red berry, and then is picked by hand to harvest. The red berry is de-shelled through a water soaking process and what’s left inside is the green coffee bean. This bean then dries in the sun for 3-5 days, where it is then packed and ready for sale.
