roasting Definition

roast
verb roasted, roasting

1. To cook (meat or other food) by exposure to dry heat, often with the addition of fat and especially in an oven.

Thesaurus: cook, toast, broil (US), barbecue.
2. To dry and brown (coffee beans, nuts, etc) by exposure to dry heat.
intr
3. Said of meat, coffee beans, nuts, etc: to be cooked or dried and made brown by exposure to dry heat.
4. metallurgy.
To heat (ores, etc) in a furnace to remove impurities and make them more workable.
5. colloq
To warm or heat (oneself or something else) to an extreme or excessive degree.
Example: roast in the sun
intr
6. colloq
To be uncomfortably hot.
7. colloq
To criticize severely.

noun

1. A piece of meat which has been roasted or is suitable for roasting.
(N Amer)
2. A party in the open air at which food is roasted and eaten.

adj

1. Roasted.

Example: roast potatoes

Derivative: roaster

An oven or dish for roasting food.

A vegetable, fowl, etc, suitable for roasting.

colloq
An extremely hot day.

Etymology: 13c: from French rostir.

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roasting
adj

colloq:
1. Extremely or uncomfortably hot.

noun

1. A dose of severe criticism.