different between toast vs moat

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??st/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /to?st/
• Rhymes: -??st

Etymology 1

From Middle English tost, from the verb tosten (see below).

Noun

toast (countable and uncountable, plural toasts)

1. (uncountable) Toasted bread.

2. (countable) A proposed salutation (e.g. to say "cheers") while drinking alcohol.

3. (countable) A person, group, or notable object to which a salutation with alcohol is made; a person or group held in similar esteem.

4. (slang, chiefly US, uncountable) Something that will be no more; something subject to impending destruction, harm or injury.

5. (slang, Jamaican) Extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
6. (computing, graphical user interface) A transient, informational pop-up window.

   Coordinate term: snackbar

Usage notes

The slang sense of something or someone subject to impending destruction is most commonly found predicatively in the combination be (or become) toast.

Derived terms

Related terms

• torrent
• torrid

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English tosten, from Old French toster (“to roast, grill”), from Latin tostus (“grilled, burnt”), from verb torre? (“to burn, grill”).

Verb

toast (third-person singular simple present toasts, present participle toasting, simple past and past participle toasted)

1. To lightly cook by browning via direct exposure to a fire or other heat source.

   We liked to toast marshmallows around the campfire.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. To warm thoroughly.

   I toasted my feet by the fire.

5. (slang, Jamaican) To perform extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “toast”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• stato-, stoat, tasto, toats, totas

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English toast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to?st/
• Hyphenation: toast
• Rhymes: -o?st

Noun

toast m (plural toasts, diminutive toastje n)

1. toast (congratulation or salutation while raising a glass containing a usually alcoholic drink)
2. an event held in honour of some person or some occasion where alcoholic drinks are consumed
3. (chiefly diminutive) Melba toast

Related terms

• toasten

Estonian

Noun

toast

1. elative singular of tuba

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English toast. Doublet of tôt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?st/

Noun

toast m (plural toasts)

1. toast (bread)
2. toast (salutation)

Further reading

• “toast” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English toast.

Noun

toast m (invariable)

1. toast, pledge (in honour of someone)
2. toasted sandwich

Anagrams

• stato, tasto, tastò, tosta

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English toast.

Noun

toast m (definite singular toasten, indefinite plural toaster, definite plural toastene)

1. toast (toasted bread)

Synonyms

• ristet brød

References

• “toast” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English toast.

Noun

toast m (definite singular toasten, indefinite plural toastar, definite plural toastane)

1. toast (toasted bread)

Synonyms

• rista brød

References

• “toast” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English toast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?.ast/

Noun

toast m inan

1. toast (proposed salutation)

Declension

Further reading

• toast in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French toast.

Noun

toast n (plural toasturi)

1. toast (salutation when drinking alcohol)

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English mote, from Old French mote (“mound, embankment”); compare also Old French motte (“hillock, lump, clod, turf”), from Medieval Latin mota (“a mound, hill”), of Germanic origin, perhaps via Frankish *mot, *motta (“mud, peat, bog, turf”), from Proto-Germanic *mutô, *mudraz, *muþraz (“dirt, filth, mud, swamp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mut- (“dark, dirty”). Cognate with Alemannic German Mott, Mutte (“peat, turf”), Bavarian Mott (“peat, turf”), dialectal Dutch mot (“dust, fine sand”), Saterland Frisian mut (“grit, litter, humus”), Swedish muta (“to drizzle”), Old English mot (“speck, particle”). More at mote, mud, smut.

As term for a business strategy popularized by American investor Warren Buffett.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mo?t/
• Rhymes: -??t
• Homophone: mote

Noun

moat (plural moats)

1. A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.

   Synonym: fosse

2. (business, figuratively) An aspect of a business which makes it more "defensible" from competitors, either because of the nature of its products, services, franchise or other reason.
3. A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it.
4. (obsolete) A hill or mound.

Translations

See also

• cunette

Verb

moat (third-person singular simple present moats, present participle moating, simple past and past participle moated)

1. (transitive) To surround with a moat.

Anagrams

• Amto, Mato, Mota, TMAO, atmo, atom, mota, toma

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mo?t/, [?mo??t?]
• IPA^(key): /?mo??t/, [?mo???t?]
• Rhymes: -o?t
• Syllabification: mo?at

Noun

moat

1. Nominative plural form of moa.

Anagrams

• mato, omat