Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - toast
Toast
toast
n. & v. --n. 1 bread in slices browned on both sides by radiant heat. 2 a a person (orig. esp. a woman) or thing in whose honour a company is requested to drink. b a call to drink or an instance of drinking in this way. --v. 1 tr. cook or brown (bread, a teacake, cheese, etc.) by radiant heat. 2 intr. (of bread etc.) become brown in this way. 3 tr. warm (one's feet, oneself, etc.) at a fire etc. 4 tr. drink to the health or in honour of (a person or thing). Phrases and idioms have a person on toast colloq. be in a position to deal with a person as one wishes. toasting-fork a long-handled fork for making toast before a fire. toast rack a rack for holding slices of toast at table. Etymology: ME (orig. as verb) f. OF toster roast, ult. f. L torrere tost- parch: sense 2 of the noun reflects the notion that a woman's name flavours the drink as spiced toast would
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I. verb see: thirst Date: 14th century transitive verb to warm thoroughly, to make (as bread) crisp, hot, and brown by heat, intransitive verb to become ~ed, II. noun Date: 15th century 1. sliced bread browned on both sides by heat, food prepared with ~ed bread, 2. from the use of pieces of spiced ~ to flavor drinks] a. a person whose health is drunk, something in honor of which persons usually drink, one that is highly admired , an act of proposing or of drinking in honor of a ~, a rhyming narrative poem existing in oral tradition among black Americans, one that is finished or done for , III. transitive verb Date: 1640 to propose or drink to as a ~ ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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