roasting

roast  (rst)

v. roast·ed, roast·ing, roasts

v.tr.

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

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

3. To expose to great or excessive heat.

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

5. Informal

a. To ridicule or criticize harshly.

b. To honor at or subject to a roast.

v.intr.

1. To cook food in an oven.

2. To undergo roasting.

n.

1.

a. Something roasted.

b. A cut of meat suitable or prepared for roasting.

2.

a. The act or process of roasting.

b. The state of being roasted.

3.

a. Harsh ridicule or criticism.

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

adj.

Roasted: roast duck.

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[Middle English rosten, from Old French rostir, of Germanic origin.]

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roasting [ˈrəʊstɪŋ] Informal

adj

extremely hot

n

severe criticism

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

roasting - cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added); "the slow roasting took several hours" cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" barbecuing - roasting a large piece of meat on a revolving spit out of doors over an open fire basting - moistening a roast as it is cooking

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roasting

noun

reprimand, dressing down (informal), chastisement, bawling-out (informal), criticism, discipline, condemnation, telling-off, castigation He was given a roasting from his boss.

adjective

blazing, baking, blistering, scorching, sizzling, sweltering, boiling hot, extremely hot Not all of Britain was roasting in the nineties today.

Translations

roasting [ˈrəʊstɪŋ]

A. ADJ

1. [chicken etc] → para asar

2. (= hot) [day, heat] → abrasador

B. N

1. (Culin) → asado m; [of coffee] → tostadura f, tueste m

2. to give sb a roasting (= criticize) → criticar a algn, censurar a algn; (= scold) → desollar vivo a algn

C. CPD roasting jack, roasting spit N → asador m

roasting [ˈrəʊstɪŋ] n
to give sb a roasting → sonner les cloches à qn

roasting

n

(lit) → Braten nt

(inf: = criticism) → Verriss m; (= telling-off) → Standpauke f; to give somebody a roasting → jdn verreißen, jdm eine Standpauke halten

adj

(inf: = hot) days, weather → knallheiß (inf)

(Cook) → zum Braten; roasting chicken → Brathähnchen nt; roasting meat → Bratenfleisch nt

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roasting:

roasting bag

n → Bratschlauch m

roasting tin, roasting tray

n → Bräter m

roasting [ˈrəʊstɪŋ]

1. adj

a. (chicken) → da fare arrosto; (pan) → per arrosti

b. (fam) a roasting (hot) day → una giornata torrida

2. n (fam) to give sb a roasting → dare una lavata di capo a qn