Roast vs Knock - What's the difference?
roast | knock |
(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
An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood
An impact.
(figurative) criticism
* 2012 , Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world'' (in ''The Daily Telegraph , 15 November 2012)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/nov/15/mumford-sons-biggest-band-world]
(cricket) a batsman's innings.
(automotive) Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by self-ignition or the characteristic knocking sound associated with it.
(dated) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
(dated) To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
* Shakespeare
(ambitransitive, dated) To bump or impact.
* 1900 , L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
(colloquial) To denigrate, undervalue.
(soccer) To pass, kick a ball towards another player.
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As verbs the difference between roast and knock
is that 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 while knock is (dated) to rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.As nouns the difference between roast and knock
is that roast is a cut of meat suited to roasting while knock is an abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.As an adjective roast
is having been cooked by roasting.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 .
Derived terms
* nut roastAdjective
(-)See also
* barbecue * chargrill * grill * joint * roastiesAnagrams
* English ergative verbsknock
English
Noun
(en noun)- I heard a knock on my door.
- He took a knock on the head.
- Since forming in 2007 Mumford & Sons have hard-toured their way to a vast market for throaty folk that's strong on banjo and bass drum. They have released two enormous albums. But, wow, do they take some knocks back home.
- He played a slow but sure knock of 35.
Verb
(en verb)- Knock on the door and find out if they're home.
- Master, knock the door hard.
- I knocked against the table and bruised my leg.
- I accidentally knocked my drink off the bar.
- "The Silver Shoes," said the Good Witch, "have wonderful powers. And one of the most curious things about them is that they can carry you to any place in the world in three steps, and each step will be made in the wink of an eye. All you have to do is to knock the heels together three times and command the shoes to carry you wherever you wish to go."
- Don't knock it until you've tried it.
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