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Roast vs. Rost — What's the Difference?

Roast vs. Rost — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Roast and Rost

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Roast

Cook (food, especially meat) by prolonged exposure to heat in an oven or over a fire
She was going to roast a leg of mutton for Sunday dinner

Rost

Rost may refer to:

Roast

Criticize or reprimand severely
If you waste his time he'll roast you

Rost

Obsolete form of roast

Roast

(of food) having been roasted
A plate of cold roast beef
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Rost

Obsolete form of roast

Roast

A joint of meat that has been roasted or that is intended for roasting
Carving the Sunday roast

Rost

See Roust.

Roast

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

Roast

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

Roast

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

Roast

To expose to great or excessive heat.

Roast

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

Roast

To ridicule or criticize harshly.

Roast

To honor at or subject to a roast.

Roast

To cook food in an oven.

Roast

To undergo roasting.

Roast

Something roasted.

Roast

A cut of meat suitable or prepared for roasting.

Roast

The act or process of roasting.

Roast

The state of being roasted.

Roast

Harsh ridicule or criticism.

Roast

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

Roast

Roasted
Roast duck.

Roast

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

Roast

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

Roast

To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.
Coffee beans need roasting before use.
To roast chestnuts or peanuts

Roast

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

Roast

To admonish someone vigorously.
I'm late home for the fourth time this week; my mate will really roast me this time.

Roast

To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
The class clown enjoys being roasted by mates as well as staff.

Roast

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

Roast

A cut of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.
Serve the roast with gravy and mashed potatoes.

Roast

A meal consisting of roast foods.
Come over this weekend for Sunday roast.

Roast

The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
Dark roast means that the coffee bean has been roasted to a higher temperature and for a longer period of time than in light roast.

Roast

An instance of being severely admonished, criticized, roasted.

Roast

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

Roast

(North America) A social event at which food is roasted and eaten.
On Memorial Day we hosted a wiener roast in the backyard.

Roast

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

Roast

Having been cooked by roasting.

Roast

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

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.

Roast

To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.
In eggs boiled and roasted there is scarce difference to be discerned.

Roast

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

Roast

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

Roast

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

Roast

To banter severely.

Roast

To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven.
He could roast, and seethe, and broil, and fry.

Roast

To undergo the process of being roasted.

Roast

That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.
A fat swan loved he best of any roost [roast].

Roast

Roasted; as, roast beef.

Roast

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

Roast

Negative criticism

Roast

Cook with dry heat, usually in an oven;
Roast the turkey

Roast

Subject to laughter or ridicule;
The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house
The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher
His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday

Roast

(of meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven

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