Roast

[rəʊst] or [rost]

Definition

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

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

(adj.) (meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven .

Editor: Moll--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.

(v. t.) To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.

(v. t.) Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.

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

(v. t.) To banter severely.

(v. i.) To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven.

(v. i.) To undergo the process of being roasted.

(n.) That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.

(a.) Roasted; as, roast beef.

Editor: Olaf

Definition

v.t. to cook before a fire or in an oven: to expose a person to ridicule: to parch by exposure to heat: to heat to excess: to dissipate the volatile parts of by heat.—n. that which is roasted.—ns. Roas′ter anything suitable for roasting: a furnace used in making ball soda; Roas′ter-slag slag from the fifth stage of copper-smelting; Roas′ting; Roas′ting-cyl′inder a furnace for roasting ore; Roas′ting-ear an ear of maize fit for roasting; Roas′ting-jack an apparatus for turning the spit on which meat is roasted; Roas′ting-kiln; Roas′ting-ov′en; Roast′-ī′ron a gridiron.—Roastbeef plant an iris of Western Europe.—Rule the roast to domineer.

Edited by Ahmed