Rap vs. Roast — What's the Difference?

Strike (a hard surface) with a series of rapid audible blows, especially in order to attract attention

Cook (food, especially meat) by prolonged exposure to heat in an oven or over a fire

Talk or chat in an easy and familiar manner

Criticize or reprimand severely

Perform rap music

(of food) having been roasted

A quick, sharp knock or blow

A joint of meat that has been roasted or that is intended for roasting

A type of popular music of US black origin in which words are recited rapidly and rhythmically over an instrumental backing

A banquet at which the guest of honour is subjected to good-natured ridicule.

A lengthy or impromptu conversation

To cook with dry heat, as in an oven or near hot coals.

A criminal charge, especially of a specified kind

To dry, brown, or parch by exposing to heat.

A person's reputation, typically a bad one

To expose to great or excessive heat.

The smallest amount (used for emphasis)

(Metallurgy) To heat (ores) in a furnace in order to dehydrate, purify, or oxidize before smelting.

To hit sharply and swiftly; strike

To ridicule or criticize harshly.

To utter sharply

To honor at or subject to a roast.

To criticize or blame.

To cook food in an oven.

To strike a quick light blow

To undergo roasting.

(Slang) To discuss something freely and at length.

Something roasted.

To perform rap music.

A cut of meat suitable or prepared for roasting.

To perform as rap music

The act or process of roasting.

A quick light blow or knock.

The state of being roasted.

A knocking or tapping sound.

Harsh ridicule or criticism.

A reprimand.

A facetious tribute, as at a banquet, in which the honoree is alternately praised and insulted.

A sentence to serve time in prison.

Roasted

(Slang) A negative quality or characteristic associated with a person or an object.

To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.

The least bit

To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.

(Slang) A talk, conversation, or discussion.

To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.

A form of popular music developed especially in African American urban communities and characterized by spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics with a strong rhythmic accompaniment.

To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.

A composition or performance of such music.

To admonish someone vigorously.

(countable) A sharp blow with something hard.

To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.

(slang) Blame for something.

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

(informal) A casual talk.

A cut of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.

Rap music.

A meal consisting of roast foods.

A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.

The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.

An appraisal.

An instance of being severely admonished, criticized, roasted.

A positive appraisal; a recommendation.

A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.

A lea or skein of yarn that forms the standard length taken from the reel, 80 yards of worsted or 120 yards of silk or cotton.

(North America) A social event at which food is roasted and eaten.

(historical) Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.

(slang) A creative insult as a response to something someone said.

A whit; a jot.

Having been cooked by roasting.

Acronym of record of arrest and prosecution

(figuratively) Subjected to roasting; bantered; severely criticized. en

A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction.

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.

(intransitive) To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.

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

To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.

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

(metalworking) To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.

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

To utter quickly and sharply.

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

(ambitransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.

To banter severely.

To talk casually; to engage in conversation.

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

(transitive) To seize and carry off.

To undergo the process of being roasted.

(transitive) To transport out of oneself; to affect with rapture.

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

A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.

Roasted; as, roast beef.

A quick, smart blow; a knock.

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

A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.

Negative criticism

Conversation; also, rapping.

Cook with dry heat, usually in an oven;

A type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments; rap music.

Subject to laughter or ridicule;

To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.

(of meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven

To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.

To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.

To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.

To hasten.

To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration.

To exchange; to truck.

To engage in a discussion, converse.

To perform a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments. It is considered by some as a type of music; see rap music.

A reproach for some lapse or misdeed;

A gentle blow

The sound made by a gentle blow

Voluble conversation

Genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged

The act of hitting vigorously;

Strike sharply;

Make light, repeated taps on a surface;

Perform rap music

Talk volubly