Roast

Definition: Roast

Roast

Adjective

1. (of meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven.

Noun

1. A piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion.

2. Negative criticism.

Verb

1. Cook with dry heat, usually in an oven; "roast the turkey".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "roast" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Literature

Metallurgy

Mining

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Synonyms: Roast

Calefaction

Burn, inflame, roast, toast, fry, grill, singe, parch, bake, torrefy, scorch; brand, cauterize, sear, burn in; corrode, char, calcine, incinerate; smelt, scorify; reduce to ashes; burn to a cinder; commit to the flames, consign to the flames.

Celebration

Rejoice; kill the fatted calf, hold jubilee, roast an ox.

Disrespect

Have in derision; hold in derision; deride, scoff, barrack, sneer, laugh at, ridicule, gibe, mock, jeer, hiss, hoot, taunt, twit, niggle, gleek, gird, flout, fleer; roast, turn into ridicule; burlesque; laugh to scorn; (contempt); smoke; fool; make game of, make a fool of, make an April fool of; play a practical joke; lead one a dance, run the rig upon, have a fling at, scout; mob.

Food

Beef, bisquit, bun; cornstarch; cookie, cooky; cracker, doughnut; fatling; hardtack, hoecake, hominy; mutton, pilot bread; pork; roti, rusk, ship biscuit; veal; joint, piece de resistance, roast and boiled; remove, entremet; releve, hash, rechauffe, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince; pottage, potage, broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat; pie, pasty, volauvent; pudding, omelet; pastry; sweets; kickshaws; condiment.

Heat

Red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning. Verb: hot, piping hot; like a furnace, like an oven; burning, hot as fire, hot as pepper; hot enough to roast an ox, hot enough to boil an egg.

Punishment

Strike; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye.

Ridicule

Verb: ridicule, deride, mock, taunt; laugh in one's sleeve; tease, badinage, banter, rally, chaff, joke, twit, quiz, roast; haze; tehee; fleer; show up.

Crosswords: Roast

Frisian (rust).

This little piddy had roast beef, and this little piddy had none (Who Framed Roger Rabbit; writing credit: Gary K. Wolf; Jeffrey Price)

I love a good roast. Do Simmons (Liar Liar; writing credit: Paul Guay; Stephen Mazur)

The good Lord, you know, padre, he want us to love our neighbor, no roast him, mmm (The Pit and the Pendulum; writing credit: Dennis Paoli; Edgar Allan Poe)

Well, not so much But maybe some roast pigs and stagsand much hardy grog (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

We're having roast beef (Leave It to Beaver; writing credit: Katherine Albert; Joe Connelly)

And he rubbed the pot roast all over his chest (Excitable Boy; performing artist: Warren Zevon; writing credit: Warren Zevon & LeRoy P. Marinell)

What's the difference between roast beef and pea soup?  Anyone can roast beef. (references; author: unknown)

Weenie Roast (1931)

The New York Friar Club Roast of Chevy Chase (2002)

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References

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Roast and Ground Coffee (reference)

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Books

• How to Barbecue & Roast on the Grill (reference)

• Roast Chicken and Other Stories (reference)

• The Innocence of Roast Chicken (reference)

• The Mystery Roast (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Roast Tommy:Tommy Lasorda Roast (reference)

• Tommy Chong Roast (reference)

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Music

• Oh I Do Hope It's Roast Beef (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Henckels Four Star 10-Inch High Carbon Stainless-Steel Granton Roast Beef Slicer (reference)

• Ottomanelli's Oven-Ready Prime Beef Rib Roast & Prime Leg of Lamb (reference)

• Calphalon Commercial Hard Anodized 16-Inch French Roast (reference)

• Ottomanelli's Prime Beef Rib Roast, Spiral Ham, & Prime Leg of Lamb (reference)

• Bauen-Pagoda Home Restaurant 18-Inch Nonstick Roaster with Roast Rack (reference)

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A dinner is set up on black, gold-rimmed dishes on a black tabletop. There is a mug, a bowl of cut strawberries, and a plate full of green beans, small potatoes and roast beef. A dark multicolored napkin with gold thread is curved around the plate. See also AV-3905. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Woodrow Wilson relaxing on a hammock while fire crackers "Mulhall," "Lamar," "T.R. Roast," and "Lobby" explode around him. Credit: Library of Congress.

Balloon barrage training center. Lilluputians at a weemie roast. This illustration is portrayed here by comparing the huge balloons and dwarfed trainees seated in picnic fashion around their instructor. Camp Tyson, Tennessee. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wrapping up a roast from cold storage locker for farmer to take home. Casselton, North Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress.

Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. Mid-afternoon "lunch" by Long Pond where woodsmen are sluicing. On the menu that day: roast pork and dressing, boiled potatoes, turnips, baked beans, hot cakes, hot biscuits, bread, butt. Credit: Library of Congress.

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IITYWYBAD? Down at one end the cooking plates, pots of stew, potatoes, pot roast, roast beef, gray roast pork waiting to be sliced

It will soon be forgotten, in these days of stoves, that we used to roast potatoes in the ashes, after the Indian fashion

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Health

Avoid frying meat, fish, or poultry in added oil, shortening, or lard. Bake, broil, or roast instead. (references)

Travel

Qatar

Makhbous (rice with roast sheep) is the most common food in the Gulf. (references)

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Expressions using "roast": beef roast ♦ blade roast ♦ crown roast ♦ hot enough to roast an ox ♦ lamb roast ♦ pan roast ♦ pork roast ♦ pot roast ♦ rib roast ♦ roast an ox ♦ roast beaf ♦ roast beef ♦ roast beef plant ♦ roast chestnut ♦ roast chicken ♦ roast coffee ♦ roast duck ♦ roast lamb ♦ roast meat ♦ roast mutton ♦ roast pig ♦ roast pork ♦ roast veal ♦ roast venison ♦ rule the roast ♦ rump roast ♦ standing rib roast ♦ To rule the roast ♦ veal roast ♦ weenie roast ♦ wiener roast. Additional references.

Beginning with "roast": roast-beef.

Ending with "roast": committee-roast, crown-roast, dry-roast, hog-roast, honey-roast, pig-roast.

Containing "roast": pot-roast meat.

Afrikaans

braai (barbecue, toast). (various references)

Albanian

rosto (pot roast), pjekje mishi përjashta, pjek (bake, calcinate, decrepitate, fire, grill, ripen), një copë mishi të pjekur, mish i pjekur (barbecue), kritikë (attack, castigation, censure, criticism, critique, hit, slam, stricture). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مشوي (grilled), ‏هزأ ب (deride, gibe, gird, hold up, laugh at, mockery, sneer), ‏حمص (bake, gram, humous, parch), ‏تحميص (baking, roasting), ‏تحمص (bake), ‏إنتقد بحدة, ‏إجتماع يشوى خلاله الطعام, ‏شوى (barbecue, braise, broil, grill, pop, roasting), ‏شواء (broil, grill, roasting). (various references)

Bulgarian 

критикувам остро (pan, score, slash, slate), калцирам (calcify), грея се (bask), опичам (bake, broil, grill), закачам (append, bangle, catch, clasp, dangle, graze, hang, hang out, hang up, hitch, hook, jive, jolly, pin on, pin up, put up, rib, ride, rough-house, tease, tooth, twit), жестока критика (slam), пържа руда, препичам се, подигравам (bosh, fool, laugh at, make fun of, mock, ridicule, send up), печено, печене (baking, burn, burning, firing, roasting), пека (bake, broil, cook, fire, grill), парче месо за печене, излет на който се пече месо, изпичам (anneal, calcinate, calcine). (various references)

Chamorro

hinetnon babui (roast pig). (various references)

Chinese 

烘烤 . (various references)

Croatian

peèen. (various references)

Czech

pražit (blaze down, parch), peèený (baked, roasted), peèenì, peèení (baking), péci (bake), opékat se, opékaný. (various references)

Danish

stege (toast). (various references)

Dutch

branden (burn, distil, toast), roosteren (toast), braden (toast). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

cusana (to roast). (various references)

Esperanto

rostiĝi, rosti (toast). (various references)

Faeroese

steikja (fry, toast). (various references)

Farsi 

کباب کردن (Barbecue, Broil, Grid), بریان کردن (Barbecue, Grill, Parch), برشته شدن , برشتن . (various references)

Finnish

paistaa (bake, broil, fry, grill, shine, toast). (various references)

French

griller, rôtir. (various references)

Frisian

briede (fry, incubate, sit, to fry, toast). (various references)

German

braten (bake, barbecue, broil, cook, fries, fry, grill, joint, pan, pot-roast meat, roast meat, roasting, toast), rösten (calcine, parch, ret, saute, to parch, to roast, to toast, toast). (various references)

Greek 

καβουρδίζω, ψήνω (bake, cook, frizz, frizzle, season, torrefy). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקלות (burn, toast), להקלות, להצלות (be roasted, be scorched), לצלות (braise, broil, grill), צלי (grill, roasted meat), צלוי (roasted). (various references)

Hungarian

sült (baked, fried, Fry), rostélyos (steak, steal). (various references)

Indonesian

mendiangkan (heat, warm), daging panggang. (various references)

Italian

tostare (toast, torrefy), cuocio (fries, joint), calcinare (calcine), arrosto (fried), arrostirsi (broil), arrostire. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

煎 (boil down, broil, fire, parch), ローカル番組 (local program, lotion, lotus, low cost, low gear, low-key, low-sulphur, LS, pork loin, roast beef, roast ham, roaster, roasting meat, rose, rosemary, rosin bag, rotary, Rotary Club, rotary engine, rotor, sirloin). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ロースト , ロース (pork loin, roasting meat, sirloin), せん (at length, attentively, beam, before, boastfully usurping, boil down, broil, carefully, choice, clip, compilation, cork, deeply, editing, fire, former, gland, hermit, hundredth of a yen, late, line, old, parch, precedence, previous, priority, profoundly, selection, snip, stopcock, stopper, the future, thousand, wire, wizard). (various references)

Korean 

굽기 (Baking). (various references)

Manx

spongey (aridity, burn up, cinder, dry up, shrivel, spunk), rostey (broil, broiling, roasting), greddey (broil; spanking, broiling, devil, grill, grilling, heat, parch, toast, toasting). (various references)

Maori

tunu-a (to roast). (various references)

Maya

kaakt (to roast). (various references)

Norwegian

steke (fry, toast). (various references)

Papiamen

rosto (toast), rosti (toast), tost (toast). (various references)

Pig Latin

oastray.(various references)

Portuguese

tostar (parch, tan, toast), torrar (char, grill, toast, torrefy), calcinar (calcinate, decrepitate, incinerate), assar (bake, broil, grill, stew, toast). (various references)

Romanian

frige (bake, broil, burn, diddle, Fry, grill, toast). (various references)

Romany

pekàva (to roast). (various references)

Russian 

обжиг (baking, calcination), жестокая критика, жаркое, жареное мясо, жарить жаркое жареный, печь (bake, furnace, kiln, oven, stove). (various references)

Scottish

ròist, bruich (boil, cook, prepare food, ready as food, roasted). (various references)

Sepedi

gadika (to roast). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pržiti (fry, toast), pečenje (baking, broiling, escallop), pečenica (loin, sirloin, undercut), pečen (baked, fried), peći (bake, broil, sting). (various references)

Shona

-gocha (to roast). (various references)

Spanish

asar (barbecue, broil, toast). (various references)

Swazi

k-ósa (to roast). (various references)

Swedish

steka (braise, broil, frizzle, Fry, jug), stek (hitch, joint, roast meat, steak), rosta (rust, toast). (various references)

Turkish

rosto (roast beaf, roast meat), tavlamak (anneal, attemper, puddle), sıcaktan pişmek, pişmek (bake, be baked, be cooked, be hardened, be roasted, cook, sophisticate), kavurmak (bake, blast, parboil, parch, scorch, sear, torrefy), kavrulmak (be parched, be roasted, broil, parch), kızartmak (chap, Fry, grill, rubefy, rubify, toast), fırça atmak (berate, give smb. a roasting, give smb. a telling-off, give the stick, keelhaul, lam into, lambaste, rate, sail into, slam, trounce), fırınlamak (bake, kiln dry, ovendry), fırında pişirilmiş et, fırında kızartmak, fırında kızartılmış, et kızartması, azarlamak (admonish, baste, bawl out, berate, blame, blister, blow up, bring up, call down, call smb. over the coals, carpet, castigate, chew out, chide, come down on, decry, dress down, give a piece of one's mind, give smb. a talking-to, give smb. a telling-off, give smb. beans, give smb. hell, give the stick, inveigh, jaw out, keelhaul, lace into, lambaste, lash, lecture, let smb. have it, light into, objurgate, peck at smb., punish, rag, rail, rap smb. over the knuckles, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, sail into, scold, score, slang, slap, slate, strafe, take to task, talk to smb., tell off, tell smb. one's mind, tick off, trim, twit, upbraid, vituperate), alay etmek (deride, flout, gibe, gird at, gird at smb., give smb. a roasting, groove, guy, hold in derision, ironize, jape, jeer, jeer at, jibe, jolly, Josh, laugh at, make a game of, make a jest of, make fun of, make merry over, mock, poke fun, poke fun at smb., pull smb.'s leg, razz, ridicule, rot, scoff, take the mickey out of smb., taunt). (various references)

Turkmen 

зirkizmek (fry). (various references)

Ukrainian

сушити (air, bake, dry, sap, sear, stove), смажений (fried, grilled), смажитися (cook, frizzle, grill), смажити (frizzle), гріти (chafe, warm), печеня. (various references)

Vietnamese 

thịt quay, thịt nướng (broil), sự quay thịt, quay (rotary, rotatory), nướng. (various references)

Welsh

rhostio, rhost (roasted), pobi (bake, toast). (various references)

asabamque, assas, assaturam, assaverunt, assavit, asse, assi, frigetur, frixit, torrens, torrente, torrentem, torrentes, torrenti, torrentibus, torrentis, torrentium, torreri, torres, torris. (various references)

bruller. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "roast": roasted, roaster, roasters, roasting, roasts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Roast" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arogast, broast, eosat, orst, proact, Rasgtp, rast, reist, renast, resat, Riasat, roalt, roaset, roash, Roat, roath, Robaut, roest, Rogart, rosal, rosat, Rosati, Rosato, rosta, rostam, Rouart, Rovatti, Rowatt, Royat, Royst, rozas, rrost, troast. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ratos, rotas, taros, toras.

-1 letter: arts, oars, oast, oats, orts, osar, rato, rats, rota, rots, soar, sora, sort, star, stoa, taos, taro, tars, tora, tors, tsar.

-2 letters: ars, art, oar, oat, ora, ors, ort, ras, rat, rot, sat, sot, tao, tar, tas, tor.

-3 letters: ar, as, at, or, os, so, ta, to.

+1 letter: aborts, actors, aorist, aortas, argots, aristo, assort, boarts, castor, costar, gators, groats, korats, oaters, orates, ottars, pastor, ratios, roasts, rostra, sartor, satori, scrota, stator, storax, stroma, tabors, tarocs, taroks, tarots, tolars, torahs, troaks, tronas.

+2 letters: abators, aerosat, airpost, alastor, amorist, aorists, aristos, aroints, aroynts, assorts, atoners, attorns, authors, boaster, boaters, borates, borstal, cantors, captors, carrots, cartons, castors, cavorts, coaster, coaters, contras, costard, costars, cottars, cratons, dotards, earshot, esparto, factors, formats, garotes, harlots, maestro, marmots, matrons, mortals, mortars, natrons, nonarts, oralist, orators, orgeats, ostiary, ostmark, ostraca, outsoar, outwars, oxcarts, parrots, partons, pastors, patrols, patrons, portals, postwar, proteas, quartos, rabatos, ragouts, ragtops, raptors, rations, ratoons, rattons, rebatos, rialtos, roasted, roaster, robusta, roseate, rostral, rotates, rubatos, santour, sartors, satoris, sautoir, scrotal, seaport, senator, shortia, sorbate, stardom, stators, storage, stromal, surcoat, tabours, tailors, tarpons, thorias, throats, toaster, torsade, torulas, towards, transom, travois, treason, trocars, troikas, tsardom, turacos, viators.