Parching vs Roast - What's the difference?
parching | roast |
Capable of causing something to parch.
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(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
As adjectives the difference between parching and roast
is that parching is capable of causing something to parch while roast is having been cooked by roasting.As verbs the difference between parching and roast
is that parching is while roast is (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.As a noun roast is
a cut of meat suited to roasting.parching
English
Adjective
(en adjective)The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.
- I began also to feel very hungry, as not having eaten for twenty-four hours; and worse than that, there was a parching thirst and dryness in my throat, and nothing with which to quench it.
Verb
(head)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 .
