What's the difference between roadster and roaster?

Roadster


Definition:

  • (n.) A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides.
  • (n.) A horse that is accustomed to traveling on the high road, or is suitable for use on ordinary roads.
  • (n.) A bicycle or tricycle adapted for common roads rather than for the racing track.
  • (n.) One who drives much; a coach driver.
  • (n.) A hunter who keeps to the roads instead of following the hounds across country.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tesla Model-S launch: an electric car to answer even Clarkson's objections Read more Elon Musk’s Tesla has shown that electric vehicles are viable for a business with its Roadster and then Model S , which recently gained a faster dual-motor version with an “insane mode” which reaches 60 miles per hour in under 3.2 seconds.
  • (2) A fourth Tesla, the Roadster, launched the Tesla motors range.
  • (3) The company has produced almost two million Minis at Cowley since 2001, and now wants to expand the Mini lineup to seven models, with a coupe version planned this year and a Roadster in 2012 – both to be made in Oxford.David Cameron, the prime minister, said: "The Mini plant in Oxford has been one of our great manufacturing success stories, they should be hugely proud of their achievements.
  • (4) This article was corrected on Friday 17 July 2015 to clarify that it was the Roadster, not the Model S, that was based on a Lotus.
  • (5) Apart from the Tesla Roadster, the only other model that will be on sale in time for the introduction of the grant is the Mitsubishi i-Miev , a four-seater car that will cost a hefty £25,000 before the grant.
  • (6) According to an order filed on Monday setting the conditions for release, Webb secured the bond with five Rolex watches plus a Cartier Roadster, Hublot, Breitling, Panerai, Royal Oak Offshore and Luminor Marina.
  • (7) The Roadster, Tesla’s first car, the Model S, and now the Model X, are being used to pave the way for Tesla’s Model 3, which is Musk’s vision of a mass market “The goal at Tesla is to produce a mass-market electric car, but we can only get there one step at a time by selling the Roadster and now the Model S to fund the mass market,” said Musk at the UK launch of the Model S .
  • (8) For just €299 (£248), the company pre-emptively bought the rights to the third high pressure front of the year and named it Cooper, in homage to its latest Mini Cooper Roadster.
  • (9) The Warwickshire-based sports car manufacturer, in which Ford will retain a £40m holding, will start producing a £91,000 V8 Vantage Roadster in April, a DBS - as driven by Daniel Craig in the latest Bond film, Casino Royale - from October and a four-seater Rapide in 2010.
  • (10) But the creators of AeroMobil’s Flying Roadster insist their innovation is more than just a boy’s toy dreamt up by science fiction fans.
  • (11) Until now, electric cars have been criticised for being too expensive (the California-based Tesla roadster costs around £90,000) or looking more like go-karts than real cars (think G-Wiz).
  • (12) However, the Wheego LiFe, its second vehicle, can reach 65mph and was the third electric car approved for use on US highways after the Tesla Roadster and the Nissan Leaf.
  • (13) All of the first generation of electric cars eligible for the grant, such as the Nissan Leaf, Mitsubishi i-MiEV and Telsa Roadster sports car , cost over £20,000.
  • (14) In spite of the car’s low centre of gravity, he said, the Flying Roadster could land on stretches of lawn or even farmland.
  • (15) BMW once sponsored a high-pressure cold front , naming it Cooper in order to promote its Mini Cooper Roadster.
  • (16) Australian first person in the world to order Tesla Model 3 electric car Read more It is the culmination of the Tesla chief executive Elon Musk’s dream since unveiling the company’s first car, an electric roadster, in 2006.
  • (17) My requirements were discussed, and I was shown a 1950 Ladies Rudge Roadster.
  • (18) Elon Musk has made it official: his electric car company, Tesla Motors, is planning to debut an unnamed new Roadster in four years, and it won’t be based on a Lotus like the last one.
  • (19) This includes the launch of the Lamborghini Reventon Roadster, whose 6.5-litre V12 engine will deliver a top speed of 205mph and a 0-60mph time of 3.4 seconds.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tesla Model S test drive in London Seven years after Tesla introduced the Roadster electric sports car – which it no longer makes – electric cars still make up less than 1% of US sales.

Roaster


Definition:

  • (n.) One who roasts meat.
  • (n.) A contrivance for roasting.
  • (n.) A pig, or other article of food fit for roasting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Others roasters such as Lock, however, insist it's not a career boost they're after: "I don't feel entirely comfortable with the proceedings," he admits.
  • (2) It began in a tiny space on Monmouth Street in Covent Garden in the late 70s, as the first independent roaster.
  • (3) Similar profiles were also established for roaster-fryer turkey, young tom turkey, and young hen turkey.
  • (4) Treatments were raw soybeans, soybeans roasted in a drum roaster with an exit temperature of 146 degrees C, and those roasted with exit temperatures of 141 or 146 degrees C and held for .5 h. Estimated postruminal available lysine was higher for soybeans roasted and held versus roasted or raw soybeans.
  • (5) Percentage O2 and CO2 were measured in the air in environmentally controlled commercial poultry pens (altitude approximately 300 m) containing broiler or roaster chickens 14 to 56 days of age.
  • (6) Although Monmouth Coffee , arguably the first independent roaster, opened way back in 1978, it was on its own for many years and very small.
  • (7) The burgeoning movement has inspired the forthcoming London Coffee festival, which will bring together 25,000 coffee lovers, independent shops and roasters from all over the country for a weekend of bean indulgence at the end of April.
  • (8) The art of roasting is how you control the rise in temperature,” said the co-founder of Coaltown Coffee Roasters.
  • (9) The nitrogen solubility index, however, decreased as roasting temperatures increased in the case of the granular bed roaster, and it also decreased in the wet-cooking procedure.
  • (10) Abdominal fat accretion was greatest in the dwarf chicks and least in the slow-growing roaster strain when comparisons were made at the same age and the same body weight.
  • (11) What you will notice is the very good coffee (from £1.65, supplied by local roasters, Bailies), the fantastic cakes and scones (around £1.80), and a reasonably priced menu of sandwiches, wraps and daily specials, such as red Thai vegetable curry.
  • (12) Broilers obtained from a commercial processing plant, Athens Canadian Randombred chickens, roasters, and broiler breeder hens were killed via cervical dislocation.
  • (13) Getting roasted: James Hoffmann and Anette Moldvaer of Square Mile Roasters Photograph: Katherine Rose for the Observer Ask coffee geeks for the next key date and they point to the opening in 2005 of Flat White in London's Soho, bringing with it from Australia and New Zealand the drink of the same name: a kind of grown-up sibling to the cappuccino, with two shots of coffee and less milk.
  • (14) "The image of the barista has almost become a fashion statement," says Paul Meikley-Janney, a judge at the World Barista Championship and managing director of Coffee Community, which works with roasters, machine manufacturers and coffee shops, including Costa and SSP .
  • (15) Fiber diameters were significantly larger in the posterior portion of the p. major muscle than in the anterior or middle portions in two of the broiler trials, the female roasters, and the breeder hens.
  • (16) Gastrocnemius muscle growth, however, was greatest in the slow-growing roaster chicks.
  • (17) To understand the industry better I carry on east to a light industrial unit in Hackney, home to the highly regarded Square Mile Roasters .
  • (18) And as “the big four” take investment money to grow, smaller coffee shops – the young indies – will not only fill the space but expand on it by relying on hyper-local focus, transparency and sustainable initiatives like solar-powered spaces (like Salt Lake City’s Publik Coffee Roasters ), minimizing their menus (Culver City, California’s Bar Nine) and even forsaking brick and mortar for a recycled airstream (Seattle’s Slate Coffee ).
  • (19) The fatty acid composition data for dark meat, light meat, or skin of all classes of chicken --broiler-fryer, roaster, and stewing hen--raised on diets equivalent to commercial feed were combined into single tissue-type fatty acid profiles.
  • (20) The second case involved 11-week-old roaster chickens in which H. paragallinarum and Mycoplasma synoviae were isolated.

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