Picnic vs Barbecue - What's the difference?
picnic | barbecue |
A meal eaten outdoors or in another informal setting.
An easy or pleasant task.
(obsolete) An entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table.
To eat a picnic.
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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.
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 a verb barbecue is
to cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.picnic
English
Noun
(en noun)- We went out for a picnic in the forest.
- We remind the guests that dealing with this problem is no picnic , and to be patient.
Derived terms
* picnic basket * picnic box * picnicker * picnic sheet * picnic tableVerb
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.
