ROAST
\ɹˈə͡ʊst], \ɹˈəʊst], \ɹ_ˈəʊ_s_t]\
Definitions of ROAST
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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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To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.
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To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.
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Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
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To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
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To banter severely.
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To undergo the process of being roasted.
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That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.
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Roasted; as, roast beef.
By Oddity Software
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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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To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.
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To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.
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Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
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To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
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To banter severely.
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To undergo the process of being roasted.
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That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.
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Roasted; as, roast beef.
By Noah Webster.
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To cook before a fire or in a closed oven, as meat.
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A piece of meat cooked, or suitable to be cooked, before a fire or in an oven.
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Cooked before a fire or in an oven.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To cook before a fire: to parch by exposure to heat: to heat to excess: to dissipate the volatile parts of by heat.
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That which is roasted.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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