ROAST

roast, roasted

(adjective) (meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven

knock, roast

(noun) negative criticism

roast, joint

(noun) a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion

roast

(verb) cook with dry heat, usually in an oven; “roast the turkey”

ridicule, roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke fun

(verb) subject to laughter or ridicule; “The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house”; “The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher”; “His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

roast (third-person singular simple present roasts, present participle roasting, simple past and past participle roasted)

(transitive or intransitive or ergative) To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.

Coordinate terms: bake, boil, broil, fry, grill, poach, toast

To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.

(transitive or intransitive or ergative) To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat

To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.

(transitive, figuratively) To admonish someone vigorously

(transitive, figuratively) To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.

(metalworking) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.

Noun

roast (plural roasts)

A cut of meat suited to roasting

A meal consisting of roast foods.

The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.

A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.

Adjective

roast (not comparable)

Having been cooked by roasting.

Synonym: roasted

(figuratively) Subjected to roasting, bantered, severely criticized.

Anagrams

• Astor, Astro, Roats, Sarot, Troas, artos, astro, astro-, ratos, rotas, sorta, taros, tarso-

Source: Wiktionary

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Roast, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Roasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Roasting.] Etym: [OE. rosten, OF. rostir, F. rôtir; of German origin; cf. OHG. rosten, G. rösten, fr. OHG. rost, rosta, gridiron, G. rost; cf. AS. hyrstan to roast.]

1. To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; as, to roast meat on a spit, or in an oven open toward the fire and having reflecting surfaces within; also, to cook in a close oven.

2. To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes. In eggs boiled and roasted there is scarce difference to be discerned. BAcon.

3. To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.

4. Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn. "Roasted in wrath and fire." Shak.

5. (Metal.)

Definition: To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.

6. To banter severely. [Colloq.] Atterbury.

Roast, v. i.

1. To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven. He could roast, and seethe, and broil, and fry. Chaucer.

2. To undergo the process of being roasted.

Roast, n.

Definition: That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted. A fat swan loved he best of any roost [roast]. Chaucer. To rule the roast, to be at the head of affairs. "The new-made duke that rules the roast." Shak.

Roast, a. Etym: [For roasted.]

Definition: Roasted; as, roast beef.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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