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Toast vs Testa - What's the difference?

toast | testa |

As nouns the difference between toast and testa

is that toast is toast (toasted bread or salutation) while testa is head.

toast

English

Noun

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  • Toasted bread.
    • I ate a piece of toast for breakfast.
    All toasters toast toast .
  • A proposed salutation (e.g. to say "cheers") while drinking alcohol.
    • At the reception, there were many toasts from the well-wishers.
  • 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.
  • (slang) 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 !
  • (slang, Jamaica) Extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
  • (computing) A transient, pop-up informational window

    • Derived terms

    * french toast * propose a toast * Texas toast * toaster * toast of the town

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To lightly cook by browning via direct exposure to a fire or other heat source.
    • We liked to toast marshmallows around the campfire.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • To warm thoroughly.
    • I toasted my feet by the fire.
  • (slang, Jamaica) To perform extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.

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    testa

    English

    Noun

  • (botany) A seed coat.
    • The testa develops from the tissue, the integument, originally surrounding the ovule.
  • * 1840 , James Scott Bowerbank, A History of the Fossil Fruits and Seeds of the London Clay , page 30,
    • The seeds are furnished with a reticulated testa , very much in appearance like that of the seeds of two closely-allied pericarps in the cabinet of my friend Mr. Ward, of Wellclose-square, the names of which I have been unable to obtain, but which present strong evidence of belonging to the Malvaceæ .
  • * 1969 , C. W. Bennett, Seed Transmission of Plant Viruses'', Alison Smith, ''Advances in Virus Research , Volume 14, page 224,
    • In tests with the Lincoln and Virginia varieties of cowpea, Crowley (1959) found that, in plants infected with bean southern mosaic virus before blossoming, the virus was present in nearly 100% of the testae and endosperms of seeds of both varieties, but could not be detected in the embryos.
  • * 1977 , Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australian Journal of Plant Physiology , page 354,
    • Thus, two conditions must be satisfied for the testas' to have this effect: contact between the '''testas''' and the radicle, and the presence of at least half of the ' testas .
  • * 2005 , D. W. Dickson, D. De Waele, Nematode Parasites of Peanut'', Michel Luc, Richard A. Sikora, John Bridge, ''Plant Parasitic Nematodes in Subtropical and Tropical Agriculture , page 419,
    • A.[Aphelenchoides] arachidis is a parasite of pods, testae, roots and hypocotyls, but not the cotyledons, embryos or other parts of the plant (Bos, 1977a; Bridge et al., 1977).
  • * 2007 , J. Smartt, Evolution of American Phaseolus beans under domestication'', Peter John Ucko, G. W. Dimbleby (editors), ''The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals , page 458,
    • One of the most remarkable features of cultivated beans is the enormous range of testa colours and patterns which can be found.
  • (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm; the test.

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