Toast vs. Rusk — What's the Difference?

To heat and brown (bread, for example) by exposure to radiant heat.

A rusk is a hard, dry biscuit or a twice-baked bread. It is sometimes used as a teether for babies.

To warm thoroughly, as before a fire

A light, soft-textured sweetened biscuit.

To become toasted

Sweet raised bread dried and browned in an oven.

To drink to the health or honor of.

A rectangular, hard, dry biscuit

To propose or drink a toast.

A twice-baked bread, slices of bread baked until they are hard and crisp (also called a zwieback)

Sliced bread heated and browned.

A weaning food for children

(Slang) One that is doomed, in trouble, or unworthy of further consideration.

A cereal binder used in meat product manufacture

The act of raising a glass and drinking in honor of or to the health of a person or thing.

A kind of light, soft bread made with yeast and eggs, often toasted or crisped in an oven; or, a kind of sweetened biscuit.

A proposal to drink to someone or something or a speech given before the taking of such a drink.

A kind of light, hard cake or bread, as for stores.

The one honored by a toast.

Bread or cake which has been made brown and crisp, and afterwards grated, or pulverized in a mortar.

A person receiving much attention or acclaim

Slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp

(uncountable) Toasted bread.

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

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

Something that will be no more; something subject to impending destruction, harm or injury.

Extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.

A transient, informational unclickable pop-up overlay, less interactive than a snackbar.

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

To grill, lightly cook by browning specifically under a grill or in a toaster

To engage in a salutation and/or accompanying raising of glasses while drinking alcohol in honor of someone or something.

To warm thoroughly.

To perform extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.

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

To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.

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

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.

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.

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.

Slices of bread that have been toasted

A celebrity who receives much accalim and attention;

A person in desperate straits; someone doomed;

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

Make brown and crisp by heating;

Propose a toast to;