roast
1. a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion
• Syn:
joint
• Hypernyms:
cut, cut of meat
• Hyponyms:
blade roast, pot roast, rib roast, standing rib roast, top round,
rump roast, beef roast, roast beef, veal roast, roast veal, lamb roast,
roast lamb, pork roast, roast pork
2. negative criticism
• Syn:
knock
• Hypernyms:
criticism, critique
1. cook with dry heat, usually in an oven (Freq. 4)
- roast the turkey
• Derivationally related forms:
roaster, roasting
• Topics:
cooking, cookery, preparation
• Hypernyms:
cook
• Hyponyms:
pan roast
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- The chefs roast the vegetables
2. subject to laughter or ridicule
- The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house
- The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher
- His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday
• Syn:
ridicule, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at,
rib, make fun, poke fun
• Derivationally related forms:
rib (for: rib), ribbing (for: rib), ridicule (for: ridicule), ridiculer (for: ridicule)
• Hypernyms:
mock, bemock
• Hyponyms:
tease, satirize, satirise, lampoon, debunk,
expose, stultify
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s something PP (for: poke fun)
- Somebody ----s PP (for: poke fun)
- Somebody ----s something PP (for: make fun)
- Somebody ----s PP (for: make fun)
(meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven
• Syn:
roasted
• Similar to:
cooked
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