Barbecue vs Grilled - What's the difference?
barbecue | grilled |
A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.
A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.
Meat, especially pork or beef, which has been cooked in such an apparatus (i.e. smoked over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels) and then chopped up or shredded.
(dated) A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried.
* 2000 , Andrew Gerald Gravette, Architectural Heritage of the Caribbean , page 227:
To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
To grill.
(grill)
Cooked on a grill.
As if cooked on a grill.
Fitted with a grille.
* 1983 , René A Bravmann, African Islam?
As verbs the difference between barbecue and grilled
is that barbecue is to cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels while grilled is (grill).As a noun barbecue
is a fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.As an adjective grilled is
cooked on a grill or grilled can be fitted with a grille.barbecue
English
(wikipedia barbecue)Alternative forms
* barbeque * BBQ (informal abbreviation) * bar-be-que, bar-b-que (informal forms based on the abbreviation) * (meat) 'cue, 'que, que (informal shortenings)Noun
(en noun)- We cooked our food on the barbecue .
- We're having a barbecue on Saturday, and you're invited.
- She ordered a plate of barbecue with a side of slaw.
- Drying the coffee beans took place in a barbecue , basically a large, flat platform, where the pulped coffee beans could be laid out and turned as they dried. Barbecues were often walled around and raised above ground level.
Synonyms
* (grill) braai (South African English), buccan, compare grill * (event) braai (South African English), cookoutDerived terms
* barbecue sauce * barbieVerb
(barbecu)grilled
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(head)- The meat was grilled as this was considered the healthier option.
- She grilled him over his whereabouts the previous night.
Adjective
(en adjective)- After a day in the sun, he looked more grilled than his hamburger.
Etymology 2
Adjective
(-)- High up, at second-storey level, are small openings cut into the wall and filled with shuttered, grilled windows...