NOUN | food | toast | slices of bread that have been toasted |
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person | toast | a celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention | |
person | toast, goner | a person in desperate straits | |
food | toast, pledge | a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event | |
VERB | change | toast, crispen, crisp | make brown and crisp by heating |
consumption | toast, drink, pledge, salute, wassail | propose a toast to |
Sounds | tow'st | |
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Rhymes | almost ... westernmost: 30 rhymes with owst... |
Meaning | Slices of bread that have been toasted. | |
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Narrower | Melba toast | Very thin crisp brown toast |
cinnamon toast | buttered toast with sugar and cinnamon (and nutmeg and grated lemon peel) | |
orange toast | buttered toast with sugar and grated orange rind and a little orange juice | |
zwieback, rusk, Brussels biscuit, twice-baked bread | Slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp | |
Broader | bread, breadstuff, staff of life | Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked |
Spanish | brindis, pan tostado, torrada, tostada | |
Catalan | brindis, pa torrat, torrada | |
Verbs | toast | make brown and crisp by heating |
Meaning | A celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention. | |
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Example | "he was the toast of the town" | |
Broader | celebrity, famous person | A widely known person |
Meaning | A person in desperate straits; someone doomed. | |
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Example | "one mistake and you're toast" | |
Synonym | goner | |
Broader | desperate | A person who is frightened and in need of help |
Meaning | A drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event. | |
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Synonym | pledge | |
Broader | drink | A single serving of a beverage |
Spanish | brindis | |
Catalan | brindis | |
Verbs | toast | propose a toast to |
Meaning | make brown and crisp by heating. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
Example | "toast bread" | |
Synonyms | crispen, crisp | |
Category | cooking, cookery, preparation | The act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat |
Broader | heat, heat up | make hot or hotter |
Spanish | tostar | |
Catalan | torrar-se, torrar | |
Nouns | toast | slices of bread that have been toasted |
toaster | a kitchen appliance (usually electric) for toasting bread | |
toasting | cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill |
Meaning | Propose a toast to. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody | |
Example | "Let us toast the birthday girl!" | |
Synonyms | drink, pledge, salute, wassail | |
Entails | hit the bottle, drink, booze, fuddle | consume alcohol |
Narrower | give | Propose |
Broader | honor, honour, reward | bestow honor or rewards upon |
Spanish | beber, brindar, prometer, saludar | |
Catalan | brindar per, proposar un brindis, saludar | |
Nouns | toast | a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event |
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