the toast of something
toast
verb[ T ]
uk /təʊst/ us /toʊst/

toastverb[T] (HEAT)

to make bread or other food warm, crisp (= hard enough to break), and brown by putting it near a high heat: 烤，烘
Do you want this bread toasted?你要把这块面包烤一烤吗？
The sandwich was served on lightly toasted ciabatta.三明治是用稍稍烤过的脆皮的意大利面包做的。
informal
to warm yourself or part of your body: 使暖和，给…烤火
He's just toasting his feet by the fire.他正在火旁烤脚。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Preparing food using heat
air fryer
bain-marie
baking
baking parchment
barbecue
blanch
cooking
deep fat fryer
deep-fried
deep-fry
done
overdone
pan-fry
parboil
poach
poaching
sear
underdone
warm (someone/something) up
wood-fired

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Warm

toastverb[T] (DRINK)

to hold up your glass and then drink as an expression of good wishes or respect: 为…干杯
We toasted the happy couple.我们为这对幸福的伉俪干杯。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Drinking alcohol
abstinence
abstinence-only
after hoursidiom
bar-hop
barhopping
drinker
drinking
drinking game
drinking habit
drinking-up time
drown
hangover
imbibe
lash
on the boozeidiom
on the lashidiom
on the pissidiom
out of hoursidiom
outdrink
ply

toast | American Dictionary

toast
noun
us/toʊst/

toastnoun (BREAD)

[ U ]
sliced bread that has been made brown by being put near a high heat:
buttered toast

toastnoun (DRINK)

[ C ]
a short speech in honor of someone or in celebration of something, followed by everyone present taking a drink:
Ted raised his glass and proposed a toast "to absent friends."
toast
verb[ T ]
us/toʊst/

toastverb[T] (TAKE DRINK)

to make a short speech and take a drink in honor of someone or in celebration of something:
At midnight, we toasted the New Year.

toastverb[T] (HEAT BREAD)

to make sliced bread brown by putting it near a high heat:
Would you like me to toast your bagel?

Examples of toast

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Innovative practices of re-composition were central to a number of black electronic musics, including dub, toasting, scratching, rap, hip hop and their derivatives.
The health of the poet or composer is then toasted and then the beauty of the song will be discussed.
Cooking a proper meal for one is time-consuming and meals may become limited to tea, toast and biscuits.
It consisted of a piece of toast and a nice reed-bird.
In an age increasingly preoccupied by speech, even a toast could carry far-reaching consequences.
This usually includes toast and egg with coffee or milk, and perhaps a small salad.
The sandwich became emblematic of a technological artifact, especially if constructed on white toast.
I lived on toast and soup and things like that.
Good health is such an integral part of human well-being that, in many languages, everyday greetings and mealtime toasts are synonymous with best wishes for it.
So limited are the staples materials and real estate of an atoll-dweller that less toast and tea, beans, bread and chips which are the staples of poor people's diets.
Not all the toasts were so political.
Up at 6.15, made first mate tea and toast then clear supper things away and get ready for two breakfast at 7.45am, then 10 at 8 o'clock.
I am afraid the exuberant gentleman at the dinner who proposed the toast did not sufficiently think where the analogy might lead him.
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