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toaster 音標拼音: [t'ostɚ] n. 烤面包器;祝酒人 烤麵包器;祝酒人 toaster n 1: someone who proposes a toast; someone who drinks to the health of success of someone or some venture [synonym: {toaster}, {wassailer}] 2: a kitchen appliance (usually electric) for toasting bread Toaster \Toast"er\, n. 1. One who toasts. [1913 Webster] 2. A kitchen utensil for toasting bread, cheese, etc. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster] Appliance \Ap*pli"ance\, n. 1. The act of applying; application. [1913 Webster] 2. subservience; compliance. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. A thing applied or used as a means to an end; an apparatus or device; as, to use various appliances; a mechanical appliance; a machine with its appliances. [1913 Webster] 4. Specifically: An apparatus or device, usually powered electrically, used in homes to perform domestic functions. An appliance is often categorized as a major appliance or a minor appliance by its cost. Common major appliances are the {refrigerator}, {washing machine}, {clothes drier}, {oven}, and {dishwasher}. Some minor appliances are a {toaster}, {vacuum cleaner} or {microwave oven}. [PJC] {embedded} {microprocessor} controller; often used in comments that imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology (but see {elevator controller}). "{DWIM} for an assembler? That'd be as silly as running {Unix} on your toaster!" 2. A very, very dumb computer. "You could run this program on any dumb toaster." See {bitty box}, {Get a real computer!}, {toy}, {beige toaster}. 3. A {Macintosh}, especially the {Classic Mac}. Some hold that this is implied by sense 2. 4. A peripheral device. "I bought my box without toasters, but since then I've added two boards and a second disk drive". This is not usually to be taken literally but, to show off the expansion capabilities of the {Risc PC}, {Acorn Computers Ltd.} built a seven-slice machine (which they called "the rocket-ship") and installed every imaginable peripheral. In a spare {drive bay} of the top slice they installed a toaster. This machine was exhibited at various shows where it attracted attention by occasionally ejecting a pizza. [{Jargon File}] (1997-07-18) toaster: n. 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an embedded microprocessor controller; often used in comments that imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology (but see elevator controller). “DWIM for an assembler? That'd be as silly as running Unix on your toaster!”
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