Pear vs Barbecue - What's the difference?
pear | barbecue |
An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but elongated towards the stem.
(also'' pear tree ) A type of fruit tree (''Pyrus communis ).
The wood of the pear tree.
Choke pear (a torture device).
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.
As nouns the difference between pear and barbecue
is that pear is an edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but elongated towards the stem while barbecue is a fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.As a verb barbecue is
to cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.pear
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(en noun)Derived terms
* alligator pear * anchovy-pear * apple-pear * apples and pears * Asian pear * avocado pear * balsam pear * butter-pear * cactus pear * Callery pear * Chinese pear, Chinese white pear * choke-pear * European pear * garlic pear * grape pear * greening-pear * hard pear * Japanese pear * Korean pear * Le Conte pear * Malvern pear * Moorcroft pear * Nashi pear * pear-apple * pear blight * pear drop * pear-encrinite * pear-gauge * pear-haw * pear leaf blister mite * pear leaf blister moth * pear leaf-curling midge, pear leaf midge * pear-louse * pear midge * pearmonger * pear orchard * pear oyster scale * pear-plum * pear psylla * pear-quince * pear-shaped * pear-shell * pear-slug * pear-sucker * pear-thorn * pear thrips * pear tree * pear-wise * pear-withe * pear-wood * peary * perry * prickly pear * sand Pear * snow pear * sugar-pear * snowy pear * Stinking Bishop pear * strawberry pear * Taiwan pear * vegetable pear * vine-pear * wax pear * willowleaf pear, willow-leafed pear * wooden pear * Ya PearAnagrams
* ----barbecue
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(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.
