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Toast can be a noun or a verb.
toast used as a noun:
- Toasted bread.
"I ate a piece of toast for breakfast." - A proposed salutation (e.g. to say "cheers") while drinking alcohol.
"At the reception, there were many toasts from the well-wishers." - Something that will be no more; something subject to impending destruction, harm or injury.
"If I ever get my hands on the guy that stole my wallet, he’s toast!" - (Jamaican and U.S. black slang) extemporaneous narrative poem or rap
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
toast used as a verb:
- To lightly cook by browning via direct exposure to a fire or other heat source.
"We liked to toast marshmallows around the campfire." - To grill, lightly cook by browning specifically under a grill or in a toaster
"Top with cheese and toast under the grill for a few minutes." - To engage in a salutation and/or accompanying raising of glasses while drinking alcohol in honor of someone or something.
"We toasted the happy couple many times over the course of the evening."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is toast?
- Noun usage: I ate a piece of toast for breakfast.
- Noun usage: All toasters toast toast.
- Noun usage: At the reception, there were many toasts from the well-wishers.
- Noun usage: If I ever get my hands on the guy that stole my wallet, he’s toast!
- Verb usage: We liked to toast marshmallows around the campfire.
- Verb usage: Top with cheese and toast under the grill for a few minutes.
- Verb usage: We toasted the happy couple many times over the course of the evening.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of toast are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of toast, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
