ROASTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does roasting mean? 

• ROASTING (noun)
  The noun ROASTING has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ROASTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROASTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the slow roasting took several hours

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "roasting"):

basting (moistening a roast as it is cooking)

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

barbecuing (roasting a large piece of meat on a revolving spit out of doors over an open fire)

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

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)

A dark brown or black thick liquid obtained by roasting pine wood or formed as a by-product in the production of coke.

(Coal Tar, NCI Thesaurus)

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)

Mary did look up, and she did stare at me: the ladle with which she was basting a pair of chickens roasting at the fire, did for some three minutes hang suspended in air; and for the same space of time John's knives also had rest from the polishing process: but Mary, bending again over the roast, said only— Have you, Miss? Well, for sure!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)