How come "toast" as a noun meaning sliced brown bread is regarded uncountable?

[rezaaa]

How come "toast" as a noun meaning sliced brown bread is regarded uncountable?

A brown sliced piece of bread is toast. According to the rules, a tangible object that can be divided as individual units is a countable noun( except for substances). Given that it is identified as an uncountable noun in dictionaries, is the noun "toast" a concept?

 

[emsr2d2]

Re: How come "toast" as a noun meaning sliced brown bread is regarded uncountable?

A brown slice [STRIKE]d piece[/STRIKE] of bread is toast. According to the rules, a tangible object that can be divided [STRIKE]as[/STRIKE] into individual units is a countable noun space here (except for substances). Given that it is identified as an uncountable noun in dictionaries, is the noun "toast" a concept?

1. A brown slice of bread doesn't have to be toast. It could just be a slice of brown (wholemeal) bread. It becomes toast once it's been toasted!
2. What rules?
3. We divide things into individual units, not as individual units.
4. Put a space before an opening bracket. Don't put a space after an opening bracket.

Toast is uncountable. A slice of toast is countable. Bread is uncountable. A slice of bread is countable. Money is uncountable. Notes and coins are countable.

 

[jutfrank]

Re: How come "toast" as a noun meaning sliced brown bread is regarded uncountable?

a toast :cross:
a piece of toast :tick:

 

[Tdol]

Re: How come "toast" as a noun meaning sliced brown bread is regarded uncountable?

a slice of toast :tick:

 

[Rover_KE]

Re: How come "toast" as a noun meaning sliced brown bread is regarded uncountable?

Exceptions: