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ROAST

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Negative criticism

Synonyms:

knock; roast

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

criticism; critique (a serious examination and judgment of something)

Derivation:

roast (subject to laughter or ridicule)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion

Synonyms:

joint; roast

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

cut; cut of meat (a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass)

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

blade roast (a roast cut from the blade)

pot roast (cut of beef suitable for simmering in liquid in a closed pot)

rib roast; standing rib roast (a cut of meat (beef or venison) including more than one rib and the meat located along the outside of the ribs)

top round (roast cut from the round; usually suitable for roasting)

rump roast (a cut of beef or veal from the fleshy hindquarters of the animal)

beef roast; roast beef (cut of beef suitable for roasting)

roast veal; veal roast (cut of veal suitable for roasting)

lamb roast; roast lamb (a cut of lamb suitable for roasting)

pork roast; roast pork (cut of pork suitable for roasting)

Derivation:

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

roast ((meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven

Synonyms:

roast; roasted

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

cooked (having been prepared for eating by the application of heat)

Derivation:

roast (a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion)

 III. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cook with dry heat, usually in an oven

Example:

roast the turkey

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "roast" is one way to...):

cook (transform and make suitable for consumption by heating)

Domain category:

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

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "roast"):

pan roast (roast in a pan)

Sentence frames:

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Sentence example:

The chefs roast the vegetables

Derivation:

roast (a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion)

roaster (a special cooking pan for roasting)

roaster (a cook who roasts food)

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Subject to laughter or ridicule

Example:

His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday

Synonyms:

blackguard; guy; jest at; laugh at; make fun; poke fun; rib; ridicule; roast

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "roast" is one way to...):

bemock; mock (treat with contempt)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "roast"):

tease (mock or make fun of playfully)

lampoon; satirise; satirize (ridicule with satire)

debunk; expose (expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas)

stultify (cause to appear foolish)

Sentence frames:

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Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

roast (negative criticism)

Credits

 Context examples: 

We dined soon after I awoke, off a roast fowl and a pudding; I sitting at table, not unlike a trussed bird myself, and moving my arms with considerable difficulty.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

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 was all rocky: however I got many birds’ eggs; and, striking fire, I kindled some heath and dry sea-weed, by which I roasted my eggs.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I am quite roasted.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

When night came again I found, with pleasure, that the fire gave light as well as heat and that the discovery of this element was useful to me in my food, for I found some of the offals that the travellers had left had been roasted, and tasted much more savoury than the berries I gathered from the trees.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Everything turned out well, which was a mercy, Hannah said, For my mind was that flustered, Mum, that it's a merrycle I didn't roast the pudding, and stuff the turkey with raisins, let alone bilin' of it in a cloth.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Roasted peacocks, with the feathers all carefully replaced, so that the bird lay upon the dish even as it had strutted in life, boars' heads with the tusks gilded and the mouth lined with silver foil, jellies in the shape of the Twelve Apostles, and a great pasty which formed an exact model of the king's new castle at Windsor—these were a few of the strange dishes which faced him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Among participants who reported eating at least two servings of red meat, chicken or fish a week, the analysis revealed that the risk of developing high blood pressure was: 17 percent higher in those who grilled, broiled, or roasted beef, chicken or and fish more than 15 times/month, compared with less than 4 times a month. 15 percent higher in those who prefer their food well done, compared with those who prefer rarer meats. 17 percent higher in those estimated to have consumed the highest levels of heterocyclic aromatic amines (HAAs) — chemicals formed when meat protein is charred or exposed to high temperatures — compared to those with the lowest intake.

(High Temp Grilled Meat May Raise Blood Pressure, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The two brothers wanted to catch two, and roast them.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Quite an elegant dish of fish; the kidney-end of a loin of veal, roasted; fried sausage-meat; a partridge, and a pudding.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)