toast

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /təʊst/    美 /toʊst/|/təʉst/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Bread that has been toasted (cooked lightly by browning). uncountable
    — I ate a piece of toast for breakfast.
  2. A proposed salutation (e.g. saying "cheers") while drinking alcohol. countable
    — At the reception, there were many toasts from the well-wishers.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Something that will be no more; something subject to impending destruction, harm or injury. US,slang,uncountable
    — to become/be toast
  6. A type of extemporaneous narrative poem or rap. Jamaica,countable,slang
  7. An old toast ("a lively fellow who drinks excessively"). countable,obsolete,slang
  8. A transient, informational 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.
  9. A piece of toast. countable
    — Go, fetch me a quart of Sacke, put a toſt in't.
动词 v.
  1. To cook lightly by browning by means of direct exposure to a fire or other heat source. transitive
    — We used to enjoy toasting marshmallows around the campfire.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. To warm thoroughly. transitive
    — I toasted my feet by the fire.
  5. 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.

词形变化

toasts plural tost alternative toasts present,singular,third-person toasting participle,present toasted participle,past toasted past tost alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
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相关词
torrent torrid

词源

词源 1
From Middle English tost, from the verb tosten (see below).
Sense 3 is according to the Oxford English Dictionary 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.)
词源 2
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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