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Toast : (noun)
1: slices of bread that have been toasted
2: a celebrity who receives much accalim and attention; "he was
the toast of the town"
3: a person in desperate straits; someone doomed; "I'm a goner
if this plan doesn't work"; "one mistake and you're toast"
[syn: goner]
4: a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event
[syn: pledge]
(verb)
1: make brown and crisp by heating; "toast bread"; "crisp
potatoes" [syn: crisp]
2: propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!";
"Let's drink to the New Year" [syn: drink, pledge, salute,
wassail]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Toast : \Toast\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toasted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Toasting.] [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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Toast : \Toast\, n. [OF. toste, or tost['e]e, 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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Toast :
1. Any completely inoperable system or component,
especially one that has just crashed and burned: "Uh, oh ... I
think the serial board is toast."
2. To cause a system to crash accidentally, especially in a
manner that requires manual rebooting. "Rick just toasted the
firewall machine again."
Compare fried.
(1995-05-01)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Toast, NC (CDP, FIPS 67700)
Location: 36.49687 N, 80.63293 W
Population (1990): 2125 (897 housing units)
Area: 5.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Based on U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [Census_Database]:
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Toast : 1. n. Any completely inoperable system or component, esp. one
that has just crashed and burned: "Uh, oh ... I think the serial board
is toast." (This sense went mainstream around 1993.) 2. vt. To cause a
system to crash accidentally, especially in a manner that requires
manual rebooting. "Rick just toasted the firewall machine again."
Compare fried.
Based on U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [Census_Database]:
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