Definition of Roast

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Definition of Roast

Roast

To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; as, to roast meat on a spit, or in an oven open toward the fire and having reflecting surfaces within; also, to cook in a close oven.

To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.

To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.

Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.

To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.

To banter severely.

To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven.

To undergo the process of being roasted.

That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.

Roasted; as, roast beef.

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Roast Quotations

I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
Dane Cook

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
Alexander Pope

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
Garrison Keillor

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
Jules Renard

Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
Billie Holiday

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Samuel Johnson

A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.
Humphrey Bogart

For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more.
Steve Albini

A roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the knucklehead things that you did, stuff like that.
Bootsy Collins

Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.
Dick Morris

Roast Translations

roast in Afrikaans is braai
roast in Danish is stege
roast in Dutch is braden, roosteren, branden
roast in Finnish is paistaa
roast in Italian is cuocio
roast in Norwegian is steke
roast in Spanish is asar
roast in Swedish is steka, stek

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