toast

(verb)

to engage in a salutation and/or accompanying raising of glasses while drinking alcohol (or other appropriate beverage) in honor of someone or something.

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Examples of toast in the following topics:

  • Other Speeches: Farewells, Toasts, and After-Dinner Remarks

    • Farewells, toasts, and after dinner remarks are often the lightest fare when it comes to public speaking.
    • Farewells, toasts, and after dinner remarks are often the lightest of public speaking fare, requiring little in preparation or execution.
    • It's also particularly helpful, especially for wedding toasts, to consider the span of ages in the room.
    • It's important to remember that brevity is your friend in all of these situations: no one likes a toast that goes on forever while the champagne bubbles go flat.
    • Distinguish a light speech such as a farewell, toast, or after dinner remark from other types of public speaking

  • Speeches for Special Occasions

    • Clearly this speech will be very different than a toast given at a wedding, which is also an example of a special occasion speech and which will have a much more celebratory tone.
    • The toasts that are given at a wedding are an example of special occasion speeches.

  • Practical Tips for Speaking in Non-Academic Settings

    • (Toasts, for example, are typically no longer than a few minutes.)
    • The toasts that are given at a wedding are an example of special occasion speeches.

  • Types of Public Relations

    • The toasts that are given at a wedding are an example of special occasion speeches.

  • Situational and Environmental Context

    • A best man gives a toast at a wedding.
    • On a lighter note, you might be at your best friend's wedding and asked to give one of the first toasts.

  • Choosing the Main Points

    • If you are writing a toast for your best friend's wedding, you already know what your listeners want: they are gathered to celebrate the happy couple, and your toast should help them do that.

  • An Emerging Colonial System

    • Outside Puritan New England, election day brought men from the countryside to the county seat to shake hands with the candidates, meet old friends, and hear the speeches—all while toasting, eating, gaming and gambling.

  • Matching Personal Style

    • Or are you giving the first toast speech at your best friend's wedding?

  • Viscosity

    • In another setting, we judge the quality of a sauce by the way it flows and adheres to certain foods - salad dressing to lettuce, jam or jelly to toast, ketchup or mayonnaise to fried foods - the flow and cohesion are related to the viscosity.

  • Puritanism

    • Laws banned the practice of individuals toasting each other, with the explanation that it was carnal and led to wasting God's gift of beer and wine.