Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added);
- Example: "the slow roasting took several hours"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Roast \Roast\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Roasted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Roasting.] [OE. rosten, OF. rostir, F. r[^o]tir; of German
origin; cf. OHG. r[=o]sten, G. r["o]sten, fr. OHG. r[=o]st,
r[=o]sta, gridiron, G. rost; cf. AS. hyrstan to roast.]
1. 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.
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2. To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.;
as, to roast a potato in ashes.
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In eggs boiled and roasted there is scarce
difference to be discerned. --BAcon.
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3. To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee;
to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.
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4. Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
"Roasted in wrath and fire." --Shak.
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5. (Metal.) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as
ores.
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6. To banter severely. [Colloq.] --Atterbury.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Roasting \Roast"ing\,
a. & n., from Roast, v.
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Roasting ear, an ear of Indian corn at that stage of
development when it is fit to be eaten roasted.
Roasting jack, a machine for turning a spit on which meat
is roasted.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
roasting
n 1: cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat
added); "the slow roasting took several hours"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
123 Moby Thesaurus words for "roasting":
ardent, ass-reaming, baking, banter, bantering, barbecuing,
basting, bawling-out, blistering, boiling, booing, braising,
brewing, broil, broiling, burning, burning hot, canicular,
catcalling, catering, chaffing, chewing, cookery, cooking, cuisine,
culinary science, cussing-out, derision, derisive, derisory,
domestic science, dressing, dressing-down, ebullient, feverish,
fleering, flippancy, flippant, flushed, fooling, frying,
going-over, grilling, grinning, hazing, heated, hissing,
home economics, hooting, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, jacking-up,
jeering, jesting, joking, jollying, joshing, kidding, leering,
levity, like a furnace, like an oven, mockery, mocking, nutrition,
overheated, overwarm, pan-broiling, panning, parching, piping hot,
poaching, quizzical, ragging, railing, raillery, raking-down,
rallying, razzing, reaming, reaming-out, red-hot, ribbing,
ridicule, ridiculing, sauteing, scalding, scoffing, scorching,
searing, seething, setdown, shirring, simmering, sizzling hot,
smart, smart-aleckiness, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smartness,
smirking, smoking hot, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting,
speaking-to, steeping, stewing, sudorific, sweating, sweaty,
sweltering, sweltry, talking-to, taunting, teasing, toasting,
torrid, twitting, what-for, white-hot