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Roast vs Roastery - What's the difference?

roast | roastery |

As nouns the difference between roast and roastery

is that roast is a cut of meat suited to roasting while roastery is a place where meat, coffee, etc is roasted.

As a verb 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 an adjective roast

is having been cooked by roasting.

roast

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (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 roast meat on a spit
  • To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
    • to roast a potato in ashes
  • * Francis Bacon
    • In eggs boiled and roasted there is scarce difference to be discerned.
  • (transitive, or, intransitive, or, ergative) To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat
    • Coffee beans need roasting before use.
    to roast chestnuts or peanuts
  • To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
  • * Shakespeare
    • roasted in wrath and fire
  • (figuratively) To admonish someone vigorously
    • I’m late home for the fourth time this week; my mate will really roast me this time.
  • (figuratively) To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
    • The class clown enjoys being roasted by mates as well as staff.
  • (metalworking) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.

    • Coordinate terms

    * (to cook) bake, boil, broil, fry, grill, poach, toast

    Derived terms

    * roasting ear * roasting jack

    Noun

  • (en noun)
  • A cut of meat suited to roasting
  • A meal consisting of roast foods.
  • The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
    • 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 .
  • (Originally fraternal) A comical event where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.

    • Derived terms

    * nut roast

    Adjective

    (-)
  • having been cooked by roasting
  • (figuratively) subjected to roasting, bantered, severely criticized

    • See also

    * barbecue * chargrill * grill * joint * roasties

    Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs

    roastery

    English

    Noun

    (roasteries)
  • A place where meat, coffee, etc. is roasted.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 3, author=Carolyn Marshall, title=Alfred H. Peet, 87, Dies; Leader of a Coffee Revolution, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Mr. Peet was born in 1920 in Alkmaar, the Netherlands , where he learned the coffee trade while cleaning machinery and running errands at his father’s small coffee roastery . }}