toaster

See also: Toaster

English

A typical toaster that takes two slices of bread at a time.

Etymology

toast +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtəʊstə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈtoʊstɚ/
• Rhymes: -əʊstə(r)

Noun

toaster (plural toasters)

1. One who toasts (cooks lightly by browning).
2. One who toasts (engages in salute while drinking alcohol).
3. An electrical device for toasting bread, English muffins, crumpets, etc.
4. A self-contained software package (or appliance) distributable over the Internet or by burning onto CDs.
5. (informal, derogatory) An electronic organ, especially a crude one that uses analog technology.
6. (informal, derogatory) Any of several small, box-like automobiles exemplified by the Scion xB and Honda Element.
7. (archaic) A fish ready for toasting.
   • 1840s, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor

     “Now's your time! beautiful whelks, a penny a lot.” “Here's ha'p'orths,” shouts the perambulating confectioner. “Come and look at 'em! here's toasters!” bellows one with a Yarmouth bloater stuck on a toasting-fork.

8. (slang, US) A firearm, especially a pistol.

Related terms

• toast
• toasted

Descendants

• German: Toaster
• Japanese: トースター (tōsutā)
• Korean: 토스터 (toseuteo)
• Russian: то́стер (tóstɛr)

Translations

device for toasting bread

• Arabic: مُحَمِصَّة f (muḥamiṣṣa), مُحَمِّصَة خُبْز f (muḥammiṣat ḵubz)
• Armenian: տոստեր (hy) (toster)
• Basque: txigorgailu
• Belarusian: то́стар m (tóstar)
• Breton: krazerez-vara f
• Catalan: torradora f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 多士爐／多士炉 (do¹ si^6-2 lou⁴), 多士炉 (do¹ si^6-2 lou⁴)

  Mandarin: 烤麵包機／烤面包机 (kǎomiànbāojī), 烤面包机 (kǎomiànbāojī), 多士爐／多士炉 (duōshìlú), 多士炉 (duōshìlú) (Hong Kong)

• Comox: hawʔaʔmɛns kʷsaplɛn
• Cornish: krasell f, krasyor m
• Czech: toustovač m
• Danish: brødrister (da) c
• Dutch: broodrooster (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: paahdin (fi)
• French: grille-pain (fr) m, toasteur (fr) m
• Galician: torradora f
• German: Toaster (de) m
• Greek: φρυγανιέρα (el) f (fryganiéra)
• Icelandic: brauðrist f
• Ido: rostilo (io)
• Irish: tóstaer m
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• Italian: tostapane (it)
• Japanese: トースター (tōsutā)
• Korean: 토스터 (toseuteo)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Manx: greddaner
• Mongolian: талх шарагч (talx šaragč)
• Norman: grille-pain m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brødrister (no) m

  Nynorsk: brødristar m

• Persian: تستر (fa) (toster)
• Polish: toster (pl) m, opiekacz m
• Portuguese: torradeira (pt) f
• Russian: то́стер (ru) m (tóstɛr)
• Scottish Gaelic: tòstair m
• Spanish: tostadora (es) f
• Swedish: brödrost (sv) c
• Thai: เครื่องปิ้งขนมปัง (krʉ̂ʉang-bpîng-kà-nǒm-bpang)
• Ukrainian: то́стер m (tóster)
• Vietnamese: máy nướng bánh mì
• Welsh: tostydd m

Anagrams

• reostat, rosetta, rotates, stoater

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French

Etymology

toast +‎ -er.

Verb

toaster

1. to toast (grill bread to make toast)
2. to toast (drink to something)

Conjugation

Conjugation of toaster (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	toaster
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	toastant /tɔs.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		toasté /tɔs.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	toaste /tɔst/	toastes /tɔst/	toaste /tɔst/	toastons /tɔs.tɔ̃/	toastez /tɔs.te/	toastent /tɔst/
	imperfect	toastais /tɔs.tɛ/	toastais /tɔs.tɛ/	toastait /tɔs.tɛ/	toastions /tɔs.tjɔ̃/	toastiez /tɔs.tje/	toastaient /tɔs.tɛ/
	past historic2	toastai /tɔs.te/	toastas /tɔs.ta/	toasta /tɔs.ta/	toastâmes /tɔs.tam/	toastâtes /tɔs.tat/	toastèrent /tɔs.tɛʁ/
	future	toasterai /tɔs.tə.ʁe/	toasteras /tɔs.tə.ʁa/	toastera /tɔs.tə.ʁa/	toasterons /tɔs.tə.ʁɔ̃/	toasterez /tɔs.tə.ʁe/	toasteront /tɔs.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	toasterais /tɔs.tə.ʁɛ/	toasterais /tɔs.tə.ʁɛ/	toasterait /tɔs.tə.ʁɛ/	toasterions /tɔs.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	toasteriez /tɔs.tə.ʁje/	toasteraient /tɔs.tə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	toaste /tɔst/	toastes /tɔst/	toaste /tɔst/	toastions /tɔs.tjɔ̃/	toastiez /tɔs.tje/	toastent /tɔst/
	imperfect2	toastasse /tɔs.tas/	toastasses /tɔs.tas/	toastât /tɔs.ta/	toastassions /tɔs.ta.sjɔ̃/	toastassiez /tɔs.ta.sje/	toastassent /tɔs.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	toaste /tɔst/	—	toastons /tɔs.tɔ̃/	toastez /tɔs.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “toaster”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• rotâtes