toaster
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- noun
- /ˈtoʊstər/
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tostadora
- Every morning, I enjoy a bagel toasted in my toaster with cream cheese.
- use a toaster
This is a four piece toaster in a cream creamy white.
- This is a four piece toaster in a cream creamy white.
- No, it's a like a hot like a little toaster fuck.
Examples
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After the meeting, we used the toaster to prepare some snacks for everyone in the kitchen.
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Customers opening a holiday account on Friday will receive a toaster.
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I'll get you a toaster.
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I'm looking for a free toaster.
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"Good speech," Nina said, putting a piece of bread in the toaster for herself.
Fiction book (1991) -
"Miles rescued toast from the toaster, which was inclined to burn things, and began spreading butter."
Fiction book (1994) -
Paul J. Torpey was always interested in mechanical things, from fixing the toaster to working on bicycles.
Academic text (2011) -
Schiller was peering into his toaster oven, examining the progress of a slice of toast.
Fiction book (1998) -
To make breakfast, I put two slices of bread in the toaster and waited for them to turn golden brown.
Synonyms
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A small electric oven that toasts, bakes, and warms food on a kitchen counter
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A small electric machine that heats bread slices and pushes them up when ready
An electric machine that makes bread slices brown and pops them up when ready
Compounds
How Many Slices
10
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Toaster comes from the verb toast, which means 'to brown bread by heat', plus the ending -er, meaning 'something that does an action'. So, a toaster is literally 'something that toasts' and today refers to a kitchen machine that browns slices of bread.