Fry vs. Toast

Fryverb

A method of cooking food.

Toastnoun

(uncountable) Toasted bread.

‘I ate a piece of toast for breakfast.’;

Fryverb

(transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.

‘I am frying the eggs.’;

Toastnoun

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

‘At the reception, there were many toasts from the well-wishers.’;

Fryverb

(intransitive) To cook in hot fat.

‘The eggs are frying.’;

Toastnoun

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

‘He was the toast of high society.’;

Fryverb

To be affected by extreme heat or current.

Toastnoun

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!’;

Fryverb

To suffer because of too much heat.

‘You'll fry if you go out in this sun with no sunblock on.’;

Toastnoun

Extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.

Fryverb

To be executed by the electric chair.

‘He's guilty of murder — he's going to fry.’;

Toastnoun

A transient, informational pop-up window.

Fryverb

To destroy (something, usually electronic) with excessive heat, voltage, or current.

‘If you apply that much voltage, you'll fry the resistor.’;

Toastverb

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

‘We liked to toast marshmallows around the campfire.’;

Frynoun

A fried strip of potato.

Toastverb

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.’;

Frynoun

A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.

Toastverb

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.’;

Frynoun

A state of excitement.

‘to be in a fry’;

Toastverb

To warm thoroughly.

‘I toasted my feet by the fire.’;

Frynoun

Offspring; progeny; children; brood.

Toastverb

To perform extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.

Frynoun

Young fish; fishlings.

Toastverb

To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.

Frynoun

(archaic) A swarm, especially of something small.

‘a fry of children’;

Toastverb

To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.

Frynoun

The spawn of frogs.

Toastverb

To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.

Frynoun

A kind of sieve.

Toastnoun

Bread dried and browned before a fire, usually in slices; also, a kind of food prepared by putting slices of toasted bread into milk, gravy, etc.

‘My sober evening let the tankard bless,With toast embrowned, and fragrant nutmeg fraught.’;

Frynoun

A drain.

Toastnoun

A lady in honor of whom persons or a company are invited to drink; - so called because toasts were formerly put into the liquor, as a great delicacy.

‘It now came to the time of Mr. Jones to give a toast . . . who could not refrain from mentioning his dear Sophia.’;

Fryverb

To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts.

Toastnoun

Hence, any person, especially a person of distinction, in honor of whom a health is drunk; hence, also, anything so commemorated; a sentiment, as "The land we live in," "The day we celebrate," etc.

Fryverb

To undergo the process of frying; to be subject to the action of heat in a frying pan, or on a griddle, or in a kettle of hot fat.

Toastnoun

slices of bread that have been toasted

Fryverb

To simmer; to boil.

‘With crackling flames a caldron fries.’; ‘The frothy billows fry.’;

Toastnoun

a celebrity who receives much accalim and attention;

‘he was the toast of the town’;

Fryverb

To undergo or cause a disturbing action accompanied with a sensation of heat.

‘To keep the oil from frying in the stomach.’;

Toastnoun

a person in desperate straits; someone doomed;

‘I'm a goner if this plan doesn't work’; ‘one mistake and you're toast’;

Fryverb

To be agitated; to be greatly moved.

‘What kindling motions in their breasts do fry.’;

Toastnoun

a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event

Frynoun

A dish of anything fried.

Toastverb

make brown and crisp by heating;

‘toast bread’; ‘crisp potatoes’;

Frynoun

A state of excitement; as, to be in a fry.

Toastverb

propose a toast to;

‘Let us toast the birthday girl!’; ‘Let's drink to the New Year’;

Frynoun

The young of any fish.

Frynoun

A swarm or crowd, especially of little fishes; young or small things in general.

‘The fry of children young.’; ‘To sever . . . the good fish from the other fry.’; ‘We have burned two frigates, and a hundred and twenty small fry.’;

Frynoun

English painter and art critic (1866-1934)

Frynoun

English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907)

Frynoun

a young person of either sex;

‘she writes books for children’; ‘they're just kids’; ‘`tiddler' is a British term for youngsters’;

Fryverb

be excessively hot;

‘If the children stay out on the beach for another hour, they'll be fried’;

Fryverb

cook on a hot surface using fat;

‘fry the pancakes’;

Fryverb

kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair;

‘The serial killer was electrocuted’;