Toast vs. Toasting

Toastnoun

(uncountable) Toasted bread.

Toastnoun

(countable) A proposed salutation (e.g. to say "cheers") while drinking alcohol.

Toastnoun

(countable) A person, group, or notable object to which a salutation with alcohol is made; a person or group held in similar esteem.

Toastnoun

Something that will be no more; something subject to impending destruction, harm or injury.

Toastnoun

Extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.

Toastnoun

A transient, informational pop-up window.

Toastverb

To lightly cook by browning via direct exposure to a fire or other heat source.

Toastverb

To grill, lightly cook by browning specifically under a grill or in a toaster

Toastverb

To engage in a salutation and/or accompanying raising of glasses while drinking alcohol in honor of someone or something.

Toastverb

To warm thoroughly.

Toastverb

To perform extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.

Toastverb

To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.

Toastverb

To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.

Toastverb

To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.

Toastnoun

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.

Toastnoun

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.

Toastnoun

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.

Toastnoun

slices of bread that have been toasted

Toastnoun

a celebrity who receives much accalim and attention;

Toastnoun

a person in desperate straits; someone doomed;

Toastnoun

a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event

Toastverb

make brown and crisp by heating;

Toastverb

propose a toast to;

Toastingnoun

The action of making a toast (celebratory call to drink).

Toastingnoun

The heating of oak panels used to make wine barrels.

Toastingnoun

The process by which something, such as bread, is toasted.

Toastingadjective

a. & n. from Toast, v.

Toastingnoun

cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill;