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
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
Alexander Pope
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Samuel Johnson
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
A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.
Humphrey Bogart
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
I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
Dane Cook
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
Jules Renard
My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds.
Carol Alt
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
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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