toasting
IPA: tˈoʊstɪŋ
noun
- The action of making a toast (celebratory call to drink).
- The heating of oak panels used to make wine barrels.
- The process by which something, such as bread, is toasted.
- (of a DJ) accompany a reggae backing track or music with the act of talking or rhythmic chanting, usually in a monotone melody, over a rhythm or beat by a reggae deejay. It can either be improvised or pre-written.
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Examples of "toasting" in Sentences
- This is the kinda of food i could have lunch every single day! love the idea of toasting the quinoa..
- I do, though, like to be consistent in toasting whatever I put in (other than the avocado, lime and cilantro.)
- Scharler found online fame for his twittering toaster, whose tweets alternate between "toasting" and "toast is done."
- While the selector spins the records the MC animates people to get busy on the dance floor; this was called toasting, or talk-over.
- The final stage of this process involves 'toasting' the meal which ensures the removal of an anti-nutritional factor present in the bean.
- Unlike his brothers and sisters, however, his musical specialty is "toasting", a Jamaican vocal technique that is a predecessor to rapping.
- It was first called toasting in the early ’70s when artists, who became referred to as DJs, began to put lyrics more to rhythms than to melodies.
- The best single Gloucester cheese for toasting is what is called a one-meal cheese; that is to say it is made entirely of new milk taken fresh from the cow.
- It was said that Rolling Stone Keith Richards would be "toasting" his daughter Alexandra, an artist-model who had a piece in in the silent auction, but he never showed.
- The English, who pique themselves upon renewing several ancient customs, drink to the honor of the ladies, which they call toasting, and it is a great subject of dispute among them whether a lady is toastworthy or not — whether she is worthy to be toasted.
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