Barbecue vs Roast - What's the difference?
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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.
(transitive, or, intransitive, or, ergative) To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.
To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
* Francis Bacon
(transitive, or, intransitive, or, ergative) To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat
To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
* Shakespeare
(figuratively) To admonish someone vigorously
(figuratively) To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
(metalworking) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
(en noun)
A cut of meat suited to roasting
A meal consisting of roast foods.
The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
(Originally fraternal) A comical event where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.
having been cooked by roasting
(figuratively) subjected to roasting, bantered, severely criticized
Roast is a hyponym of barbecue.
As nouns the difference between barbecue and roast
is that barbecue is a fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium while roast is a cut of meat suited to roasting.As verbs the difference between barbecue and roast
is that barbecue is to cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels while roast is to cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.As an adjective roast is
having been cooked by roasting.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)roast
English
Verb
(en verb)- to roast meat on a spit
- to roast a potato in ashes
- In eggs boiled and roasted there is scarce difference to be discerned.
- Coffee beans need roasting before use.
- to roast chestnuts or peanuts
- roasted in wrath and fire
- I’m late home for the fourth time this week; my mate will really roast me this time.
- The class clown enjoys being roasted by mates as well as staff.
Coordinate terms
* (to cook) bake, boil, broil, fry, grill, poach, toastDerived terms
* roasting ear * roasting jackNoun
- 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 .
