toast
toast /t'oʊst/ (toasts toasting toasted)
1 [N-UNCOUNT]
Toast is bread which has been cut into slices and made brown and crisp by cooking at a high temperature.
...a piece of toast.
2 [VERB] V n, V-ed
When you toast something such as bread, you cook it at a high temperature so that it becomes brown and crisp.
Toast the bread lightly on both sides.
...a toasted sandwich.
3 [N-COUNT]
When you drink a toast to someone or something, you drink some wine or another alcoholic drink as a symbolic gesture, in order to show your appreciation of them or to wish them success.
Eleanor and I drank a toast to Miss Jacobs...
4 [VERB] V n
When you toast someone or something, you drink a toast to them.
Party officials and generals toasted his health...
5 [N-SING] the N of n
If someone is the toast of a place, they are very popular and greatly admired there, because they have done something very successfully or well.
She was the toast of Paris.toast rack (toast racks)
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A toast rack is an object that is designed to hold pieces of toast in an upright position and separate from each other, ready for people to eat.
1 [N-UNCOUNT]
Toast is bread which has been cut into slices and made brown and crisp by cooking at a high temperature.
...a piece of toast.
2 [VERB] V n, V-ed
When you toast something such as bread, you cook it at a high temperature so that it becomes brown and crisp.
Toast the bread lightly on both sides.
...a toasted sandwich.
3 [N-COUNT]
When you drink a toast to someone or something, you drink some wine or another alcoholic drink as a symbolic gesture, in order to show your appreciation of them or to wish them success.
Eleanor and I drank a toast to Miss Jacobs...
4 [VERB] V n
When you toast someone or something, you drink a toast to them.
Party officials and generals toasted his health...
5 [N-SING] the N of n
If someone is the toast of a place, they are very popular and greatly admired there, because they have done something very successfully or well.
She was the toast of Paris.toast rack (toast racks)
[N-COUNT]
A toast rack is an object that is designed to hold pieces of toast in an upright position and separate from each other, ready for people to eat.