ROAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does roast mean? 

• ROAST (noun)
  The noun ROAST has 2 senses:

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

2. negative criticism

  Familiarity information: ROAST used as a noun is rare.

• ROAST (adjective)
  The adjective ROAST has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ROAST used as an adjective is very rare.

• ROAST (verb)
  The verb ROAST has 2 senses:

1. cook with dry heat, usually in an oven

2. subject to laughter or ridicule

  Familiarity information: ROAST used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROAST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

joint; roast

Hypernyms ("roast" is a kind of...):

cut; cut of meat (a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "roast"):

blade roast (a roast cut from the blade)

pot roast (cut of beef suitable for simmering in liquid in a closed pot)

rib roast; standing rib roast (a cut of meat (beef or venison) including more than one rib and the meat located along the outside of the ribs)

top round (roast cut from the round; usually suitable for roasting)

rump roast (a cut of beef or veal from the fleshy hindquarters of the animal)

beef roast; roast beef (cut of beef suitable for roasting)

roast veal; veal roast (cut of veal suitable for roasting)

lamb roast; roast lamb (a cut of lamb suitable for roasting)

pork roast; roast pork (cut of pork suitable for roasting)

Derivation:

roast (cook with dry heat, usually in an oven)

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Negative criticism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

knock; roast

Hypernyms ("roast" is a kind of...):

criticism; critique (a serious examination and judgment of something)

Derivation:

roast (subject to laughter or ridicule)

• ROAST (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven

Synonyms:

roast; roasted

Similar:

cooked (having been prepared for eating by the application of heat)

Derivation:

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

• ROAST (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they roast    ... he / she / it roasts   
Past simple: roasted   
Past participle: roasted   
-ing form: roasting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cook with dry heat, usually in an oven

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

roast the turkey

Hypernyms (to "roast" is one way to...):

cook (transform and make suitable for consumption by heating)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "roast"):

pan roast (roast in a pan)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The chefs roast the vegetables

Derivation:

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

roaster (a special cooking pan for roasting)

roaster (a cook who roasts food)

roasting (cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Subject to laughter or ridicule

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday

Hypernyms (to "roast" is one way to...):

bemock; mock (treat with contempt)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "roast"):

tease (mock or make fun of playfully)

lampoon; satirise; satirize (ridicule with satire)

debunk; expose (expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas)

stultify (cause to appear foolish)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

roast (negative criticism)

 Context examples 

The Count himself came forward and took off the cover of a dish, and I fell to at once on an excellent roast chicken.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

That the germs of it could hardly have survived the original roasting was, he declared, fairly certain.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But as the roast meat smelt so good, Gretel thought: “Something might be wrong, it ought to be tasted!”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The venison was roasted to a turn—and everybody said they never saw so fat a haunch.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It arrived upon Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson’s fire.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The chocolate we tend to eat, on the other hand, is made from cocoa beans that are roasted and processed in various other ways, and then combined with ingredients like whole milk.

(Can Chocolate Really Be Good for You?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

With nuts, that includes whether they are raw, roasted, or ground, and even how well they are chewed.

(Going Nuts Over Calories, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

They had lit a fire fit to roast an ox, and it was now grown so hot that they could only approach it from the windward, and even there not without precaution.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

You can roast it by the fire, since your tastes are so peculiar that you prefer cooked food, and then you will have a very good breakfast.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

"So could I—with a roast onion. Come, we'll go down."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)