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Definition: Roaster |
RoasterNoun1. A harsh or humorous critic (sometimes intended as a facetious compliment); "the honoree gave his roasters as good as he got". 2. A cook who roasts food. 3. Flesh of a large young chicken over 3 1/2 lb suitable for roasting. 4. A special cooking pan for roasting. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A young domestic fowl for table weighing more than four pounds. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A device for roasting coffee. . . Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A reverberatory furnace or a muffle used in roasting ore. (references) |
Occupations | Tends equipment that roasts, blanches, and cleans shelled nuts: Sets temperature and time controls on oven for roasting process. Fills trays with nuts by hand and places trays in oven, or dumps nuts into feeder bin of screen conveyorized cooker or rotary drum in oven. Removes sample of nuts from oven, using spoon, compares nuts with color standard, and adjusts time and temperature controls of oven to ensure specified roasting. Removes specified number of trays of roasted nuts from oven for further processing, or pulls lever to empty roasted nuts from rotary oven into bin. Smooths out nuts in bin, using rake. Pushes bin over forced draft air vent to cool nuts. Tilts bin by hand or by hoist to dump cooled nuts into hopper of machines that remove skins, sprouts, stones, shell particles, and dirt, and starts machine. May immerse and roast nuts in hot oil bath. May coat nuts with liquid gum arabic prior to roasting to provide adhesive surface for salt. May sprinkle nuts with salt, garlic, cheese, or other seasonings by hand or by using automatic equipment. May pack nuts in bags or sacks. May be designated according to kind of nut roasted as Almond Roaster (can. & preserv.); Peanut Roaster (can. & preserv.); or according to whether oil is used as Dry Roaster (can. & preserv.); Wet Roaster (can. & preserv.). (references) |
| Controls rotary type kilns and auxiliary equipment, such as conveyors, feeders, and dust collectors, to calcine chemicals, raw ground stone, gypsum, slate, or clay or cement slurry: Lights burners, starts equipment to feed materials, and moves controls to rotate kiln drum, start dust collecting mechanism, and regulate damper. Observes color and shape of flame, monitors gauges, and moves controls to regulate feed of fuel to maintain specified temperature. Records data, such as kiln temperature, fuel consumption, and power consumed. Inspects kiln for accumulation of clinkers and deterioration of lining. May fire tripod-mounted shotgun to blast clinkers from kiln wall. May tend cooler mechanism. May tend grinders and vibrating screens to pulverize and size product prior to calcining. (references) | |
Personal Care & Hotels | Rectangular, oval or round covered or uncovered pan, with or without a rack. Especially used for roasting meats and poultry. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Roaster |
| Specialty definitions using "roaster": COCOA-BEAN ROASTER I, COCOA-BEAN ROASTER II, COCOA-BEAN-ROASTER HELPER, COFFEE ROASTER, CONTINUOUS PROCESS, COFFEE-ROASTER HELPER, CONVERTER SUPERVISOR, cracker-fanner operator, CRACKING-AND-FANNING-MACHINE OPERATOR, CRYOLITE-RECOVERY OPERATOR ♦ FLAVOR ROOM WORKER, FURNACE OPERATOR ♦ hearth roasting ♦ roaster helper. (references) |
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Consumer Goods |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Mount Jefferson from Roaster Rock in the Table Rock Wilderness Area. Credit: T. Hogervorst. |  | Old man and his wife preparing their popcorn roaster in front of the town hall. Bristol, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Royal Oak, Michigan. Woman cooking a turkey in an electric roaster. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Play | Caption |
 | Chicken; roaster; hen; cluck; clucking; chicken coop. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Roaster" is generally used as an adjective (comparative) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Roaster" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (comparative) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "roaster": coffee roaster ♦ fluidized bed roaster ♦ it's a real roaster today! ♦ oven stuffer roaster. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "roaster": peanut-roaster. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "roaster"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tavë (baking pan, casserole, pan, roasting pan), furrë pjekjeje. (various references) | |
Arabic | فروج صالح للشي, مشواة (broiler, gridiron, grill), الشواء. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | много горещ ден, прасенце подходящо за печене, пещ за пържене на руда, пещ за печене на месо, пиленце подходящо за печене, долапче за печене на кафе. (various references) | |
Chinese | 烘烤器. (various references) | |
Czech | pražírna. (various references) | |
Danish | risteovn. (various references) | |
Dutch | roostmachine. (various references) | |
Farsi | سرخ کننده (Frier, Toaster). (various references) | |
Finnish | paahdin (grill, rotisserie, spit roaster, toaster). (various references) | |
French | rôtissoire (rotisserie), torréfacteur, poulet gras, poulet rôtir, plaque rôtir, appareil torréfier. (various references) | |
German | Röster. (various references) | |
Greek | καβουρδιστήρι. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ת ור לצלי", עוף לצלי". (various references) | |
Hungarian | rostély sütõ, pecsenyesütõ. (various references) | |
Italian | apparecchio per tostare. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ローカル番組 (local program, lotion, lotus, low cost, low gear, low-key, low-sulphur, LS, pork loin, roast, roast beef, roast ham, roasting meat, rose, rosemary, rosin bag, rotary, Rotary Club, rotary engine, rotor, sirloin). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ロースター . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oasterray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | torrador de café (coffee roaster, fire-pan), torradeira (toaster), pessoa que assa, grelha (broiler, fire-pan, gridiron, screen), forno de assar (fire-pan), calcinador de minério. (various references) | |
Romanian | cuptor (batch, furnace, hearth, heat, oven, stove), aparat pentru prãjit cafea. (various references) | |
Russian | сушилка для кофе, жаровня (brazier, chafing-dish, dutch oven, fire pan, fire-pan, roasting pan, salamander). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | roštilj (barbecue, broil, gridiron, grill), pržionica (kiln), onaj koji peče. (various references) | |
Spanish | tostador, asador (roasting jack, spit). (various references) | |
Swedish | fyrfat (firepan). (various references) | |
Turkish | süt domuzu (sucking pig), kızartmalık piliç (frier, fryer), fırın (bakehouse, bakery, cooker, furnace, hearth, kiln, oven, stove), cevher eritme fırını. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | випалювальна піч, жаровня (brazier, chafing-dish, fire pan). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người quay thịt, lò quay thịt chảo rang c phê. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "roaster": roasters. (additional references) | |
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"Roaster" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: brouster, Oracstar, Orasje, rastet, rauster, remaster, roaset, roastee, roasties, Roessler, Rosati, Rosato, rosteg, Rostern, rouster. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "roaster" (pronounced rō"ster) |
| 4 | -ō" s t er | coaster, poster, toaster. |
| 3 | -s t er | dumpster, duster, Easter, adjuster, administer, alabaster, ancestor, aster, banister, bannister, barrister, blaster, blister, blockbuster, bluster, bolster, booster, broadcaster, burgomaster, Buster, canister, cannister, caster, Castor, cloister, cluster, concertmaster, coster, Dempster, Dexter, digester, disaster, ester, faster, Feaster, fester, filibuster, fluster, forecaster, Forester, Foster, gangbuster, gangster, Gaster, grandmaster, hamster, harvester, headmaster, heister, holster, huckster, imposter, impostor, investor, jester, juster, keister, kiester, lackluster, laster, Leister, Lister, lobster, Luster, lustre, master, minister, Minster, Mister, mobster, molester, monster, muenster, Munster, muster, nester, Nestor, newscaster, oldster, oleaster, ouster, oyster, paster, pastor, pester, pilaster, plaster, pollster, polyester, postmaster, prankster, protester, quartermaster, raster, register, requester, rester, ringmaster, roadster, roister, rooster, roster, royster, schoolmaster, scoutmaster, seamster, semester, sequester, shyster, sinister, sister, spinster, sportscaster, stepsister, taskmaster, taster, teamster, tester, thruster, tipster, toastmaster, transistor, trickster, trimester, twister, Ulster, upholster, waster, Webster, Wester, youngster, zoster. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-o-r-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: arrest, oaters, orates, rarest, raster, raters, resort, retros, roster, rostra, sartor, soarer, sorter, starer, tarres, terras. | |
-2 letters: arose, aster, oater, orate, rares, raser, rater, rates, ratos, rears, retro, roars, roast, roset, rotas, rotes, sorer, stare, stoae, store, tares, taros, tarre, tears, terra, toeas, toras, tores, torse. | |
-3 letters: aero, ares, arse, arts, ates, ears. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-o-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: aborters, aerators, antrorse, arrestor, assertor, assorter, creators, garrotes, oratress, praetors, prorates, reactors, realtors, rearmost, reassort, relators, restoral, roadster, roasters, rostrate, rotaries, sororate, taborers. | |
+2 letters: arrestors, arrogates, arthroses, assertors, assorters, barretors, cavorters, costarred, cremators, foreparts, garotters, garroters, garrottes, heartsore, narrowest, operators, oratories, oratrices, orchestra, overrates, parrokets, parroters, perorates, predators, priorates, prosateur, prostrate, pterosaur, ratooners, reassorts, redactors, reformats, resonator, restorals, retailors, retroacts, roadsters, rosewater, rostellar, rotatores, separator, serration, sororates, spearwort, surrogate, tabourers, teardrops, terrazzos, toreadors. | |
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