toaster

CEFRA1

/ˈtəʊ̯s.təː/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

01
noun
A small electric device used to brown bread.
02
noun
Extra detail
A fish ready for toasting.

Examples

Damn! This toaster tries to make a monkey out of me.
There is a one-year guarantee on this toaster.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5

Also pronounced

[ˈtʰoʊ̯s.tʰɚ] ~ [ˈtʰoʊ̯s.tʰɹ̩]
[ˈtʰɔʊ̯s.tʰɚ] ~ [ˈtɔʊ̯s.tʰɹ̩]

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

A toasting fork.
An electrical device for toasting food, typically sliced bread.
One who toasts (cooks lightly by browning).

More examples

In context

I had to fix the toaster.
The Freedom Toaster was developed with backing from Mark Shuttleworth as a vending-machine-style dispenser of free digital products, including Ubuntu Linux.
Railfans often call GE Dash-9s as "toasters" which certainly applies to this locomotive.

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She put the bread slices into the blank to make them hot and crunchy.

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Citations

The word in print, with each source given in full.

“Imagine this,” says an advertising consultant named Barry Lowenthal. “I’m a smart toaster, and I’m collecting data on how many times the toaster is used.” […] There are, of course, smart speakers (which roughly a quarter of American homes have) and smart thermostats, as well as smart thermometers, smart mattress covers, smart coffee makers, smart doorbells, and even, yes, smart toasters.
2018 December 18, Joe Pinsker, “The Coming Commodification of Life at Home”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2019
[T]he tumult of the thousand different cries of the eager dealers, all shouting at the top of their voices, at one and the same time, is almost bewildering. […] "Come and look at 'em! here's toasters!" bellows one with a Yarmouth bloater stuck on a toasting-fork.
1851, Henry Mayhew, “The London Street Markets on a Saturday Night”, in London Labour and the London Poor; […], volume I (The London Street-folk. Book the First.), London: [George Woodfall], →OCLC, page 9, column 2
For most older computers (pre-486 and even some 486s), it's simply easier to throw them away and start over (and cheaper, too). I know; this probably goes against the grain; after all, you hung onto that old toaster for three years, and now it makes a darn good doorstop.
2000, Jennifer Fulton, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Upgrading and Repairing PCs, Alpha Books, →ISBN, page 15
On the technical side, we had only the old “toaster” Macintosh computers as our environment (only black and white and 512 by 480 screen resolution) and a variety of IBM PCs or equivalents.
2005, Clark N. Quinn, Engaging Learning: Designing e-Learning Simulation Games, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 65
The renegade, you been afraid I penetrate pop culture / Bring 'em a lot closer to the block where they pop toasters
2001, “Renegade”, in The Blueprint, performed by Jay-Z ft. Eminem

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Origin

noun

From toast + -er (agent noun suffix) or -er (patient suffix).

Deep Dive

noun

More examples

Quick test

She put the bread slices into the blank— to make them hot and crunchy.

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Origin

noun

She put the bread slices into the blank to make them hot and crunchy.