roast
Part of speech: verb
noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English rosten, a borrowing from Old French rostir (“to roast, to torture with fire”), from Frankish *rōstijan (“to roast, broil”), from Proto-Germanic *raustijaną (“to roast”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hrews- (“to crackle; roast”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian rosterje (“to roast”), Dutch roosten, roosteren (“to roast”), German rösten (“to roast”).
Displaced native Middle English breden, bræden (“to roast”), from Old English brǣdan, related to German braten (“to roast, grill”).
The noun is from Middle English roste, from Old French rost, roste, from the verb.
Inflected forms:
form: roasts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: roasting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: roasted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: roasted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rost
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: roasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rost
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: rost
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
intransitive
transitive
examples: to roast meat on a spit
gloss: To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to roast a potato in ashes
In eggs boiled and roasted […]there is scarce difference to be discerned.
gloss: To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
intransitive
transitive
examples: Coffee beans need roasting before use.
to roast chestnuts or peanuts
gloss: To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
pos: verb
examples: roasted in wrath and fire
gloss: To admonish someone vigorously.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: I'm late home for the fourth time this week; my mate will really roast me this time.
gloss: To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: He roasted a bully who then fought with him.
The class clown enjoys being roasted by mates as well as staff.
gloss: To dissipate the volatile parts of by heat, as ores.
pos: verb
gloss: A piece of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: joint
Serve the roast with gravy and mashed potatoes.
gloss: A meal consisting of roast foods.
pos: noun
examples: Come over this weekend for Sunday roast.
gloss: The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
pos: noun
examples: Dark roast means that the coffee bean has been roasted to a higher temperature and for a longer period of time than in light roast.
gloss: An instance of being severely admonished, criticized, roasted.
pos: noun
examples: “He ain’t no good!” With this she steps back to the table where Miss Montague has just tired of the Cuban, slips her arms about that seraph’s waist, and says: “Your Frank is in Washington and my Jasper has just given me a roast. Reckon we’ll both have to be bachelor girls to-night.”
gloss: A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.
pos: noun
gloss: A social event at which food is roasted and eaten.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: On Memorial Day we hosted a wiener roast in the backyard.
gloss: A creative insult as a response to something someone said.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: Having been cooked by roasting.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Subjected to roasting; bantered; severely criticized.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
Related words: barbecue
chargrill
grill
joint
roasties
Derived words: broast
overroast
reroast
roastability
roastable
roastee
roasterie
roastery
roasting cylinder
roasting ear
roasting jack
roasting pan
roasting tin
roast up
there is reason in the roasting of eggs
underroast
ribroast
unroast
bull roast
corn roast
crown roast
nut roast
pork roast
pot roast
prate-roast
roastage
roastmaster
rule the roast
spit roast
Sunday roast
wiener roast
roast beef
roast-beef plant
roast dinner
roastie
roast iron
roast-meat clothes
roast pork
roasty
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