roast
烘烤,焙烧,烘焙,焙烤
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Definitions
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- : to bake uncovered, especially in an oven.
- : to cook by direct exposure to dry heat, as on a spit.
- : to brown, dry, or parch by exposure to heat, as coffee beans.
- : to cook or heat by embedding in hot coals, embers, etc.: to roast chestnuts.
- : to heat excessively: The summer sun has been roasting the entire countryside.
- : Metallurgy. to heat in air in order to oxidize it.
- : to warm at a hot fire: She roasted her hands over the fire.
- : Informal. to ridicule or criticize severely or mercilessly.
- : to honor with or subject to a roast: Friends roasted the star at a charity dinner.
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- : to roast meat or other food.
- : to undergo the process of becoming roasted.
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- : roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat, as a piece of beef or veal of a quantity and shape for slicing into more than one portion.
- : a piece of meat for roasting.
- : something that is roasted.
- : the act or process of roasting.
- : Informal. severe criticism.
- : a facetious ceremonial tribute, usually concluding a banquet, in which the guest of honor is both praised and good-naturedly insulted in a succession of speeches by friends and acquaintances.
- : an outdoor get-together, as a picnic or barbecue, at which food is roasted and eaten: a weenie roast.
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- : roasted: roast beef.
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Examples
There are also certain dishes which simply don’t fit on an uppermost rack, like a whole roast chicken.
I woke up in the night, and couldn’t stop thinking about the possibility this roast chicken was supposed to bring into my life.
Serve your perfect roast chicken or hearty beef stew by placing your Dutch oven on this elegant trivet.
When you roast a big tray of vegetables, it’s easy to reheat the leftovers or add them to grain bowls.
Now here he was hearing, really hearing for the first time, that the planet, his son’s future home, was going to roast.
The nanas and poppies and grannies and grampses who flocked there to roast in the sun.
Remove the roast from the pan and let rest for a minimum of 15 minutes.
A Chinese restaurateur ran to the window as I wolfed down roast duck for my farewell dinner, as shots were heard across the way.
With time I learned to disassemble the entire hotpot and mount the heating coil on a roast beef can with a whole punched in it.
It has the best pot roast on the West Coast, I told him, but it turns out, it was only on the dinner menu.
Or what if I do not fish at all, but get my roast fish by paying for it a part of the wages I receive for working in a saw mill?