(v. t.) To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; as, to roast meat on a spit, or in an oven open toward the fire and having reflecting surfaces within; also, to cook in a close oven.
(v. t.) To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.
(v. t.) To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.
(v. t.) Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
(v. t.) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
(v. t.) To banter severely.
(v. i.) To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven.
(v. i.) To undergo the process of being roasted.
(n.) That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.
(a.) Roasted; as, roast beef.
Example Sentences:
(1) Try the sweet potato falafel, quinoa, roast vegetables, harissa and sumac yogurt ($23).
(2) But it includes other delicious things, too: pot-roasted squab, stewed rabbit, braised oxtail.
(3) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
(4) Lamb leg and rib roasts were more tender when cooked from the thawed state.
(5) "We were originally going to start a café," Hoffmann says, "but then the economy broke so we started roasting in a railway arch."
(6) Now I’ve got this bee in my bonnet and want to tell people “Roast it whole until the skin’s soft, take it out of the Aga, cool it a bit and it will be just lovely”.
(7) Of the 15 furans eight methylvinylfurans, dimethyl-vinylfurans and alkenylfurans, which had not been previously found in roasted foodstuffs, should be specially mentioned.
(8) On the other hand, two min of dry roasting resulted in complete removal of oligosaccharides whereas germination resulted in about 30-40% decrease after 1 and 2 days, respectively.
(9) My roast beef sandwich with crispy onions and celeriac was tasty, although the decision to serve it on a slight sweet buttermilk roll is a curious one.
(10) Male rats were fed both popped amaranths and roasted amaranth.
(11) Roasting its own single estate coffees, Tailor Made also looks great, with a high ceiling decorated with tailoring patterns and a huge sgraffito (scraped plaster) bust.
(12) When various proportions of roasted beans and corn were fed at a level of 8.3% protein in the diet, a mixture in which 40% to 60% of the protein was provided by either beans or corn had a PER essentially the same as casein.
(13) The last roast came from John McCain, The Daily Show’s once most frequent guest during the 00s .
(14) Phenolic compounds and aromatic hydrocarbons are components in many foods and often typical flavoring substances for example of roasted and smoked products.
(15) Mix the halved sprouts with the oil and a quarter-teaspoon of salt, then spread out on an oven tray lined with baking paper and roast for 10 minutes, until cooked through and golden-brown but still crunchy, then remove from the oven.
(16) While the chicken is roasting, halve the charentais melon and discard the seeds, then remove the flesh from the skin with a sharp knife and slice into thick, juicy pieces, putting them and any juice into a large mixing bowl.
(17) Dehulled lupins commercially roasted at low, moderate, and high temperatures resulted in ruminal in situ N disappearances of 59, 47, and 43% for the respective temperatures.
(18) Raw whole cottonseed (CS), extruded whole cottonseed (ECS), and roasted whole cottonseed (RCS) were fed in diets containing 17% crude protein and composed of 42% whole cottonseed, 26% corn grain and 29% hay supplemented with dry molasses, vitamins and minerals.
(19) A liquid chromatographic method for the determination of ochratoxin A in coffee beans (green and roast), instant coffee, and coffee drink is described.
(20) A comparative study of roasting, cooking with and without calcium hydroxide and extrusion cooking on the protein quality of Canavalia was conducted.
Roost
Definition:
(n.) Roast.
(v. t.) See Roust, v. t.
(n.) The pole or other support on which fowls rest at night; a perch.
(n.) A collection of fowls roosting together.
(v. i.) To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a tree, etc.; to perch.
(v. i.) Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep.
Example Sentences:
(1) These chemical body burdens were obtained naturally under free-living conditions at the maternity roost.
(2) By exploiting this bat's preference to roost in crevices, we could separately measure O2 uptake during ventilatory bouts and apneic periods using a flow-through metabolic chamber with a small dead space volume and short time constant.
(3) Nevertheless I am thankful that Elizabeth Windsor has ruled the roost rather than some of those likely to have become president in her place.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An example of a rare Bechstein’s bat roost in a partially hollow oak tree, Finemere Wood, Buckinghamshire, ancient wood and nature reserve next to HS2 Photograph: Patrick Barkham for the Guardian After Prideaux dropped me off in a neighbour’s muddy farmyard, I climbed a hill into Finemere Woods, an ancient woodland owned by Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust .
(5) A survey was made by serology and virus isolation techniques on 387 wild free-flying birds that fed and roosted in the area.
(6) The improved performance with water-cooled over air-equilibrated roost treatments, especially during heat-stress periods, indicates that the water-cooled roosts minimized the deleterious effects of heat stress through conductive heat loss from the birds to the roost.
(7) The Tories had previously always been the very clear second place challengers in Brent East, particularly when Ken Livingstone ruled the local roost.
(8) Collections of this tick were associated with bat roosting sites in attics of houses.
(9) Birds roosting on the floor tended always to be the same individuals.
(10) Turnbull had “consistently talked down” the cost of the Coalition’s fibre to the node model “and now the chickens are coming home to roost”, Quigley wrote in the paper.
(11) A split-plot experiment was conducted in thermally controlled chambers using Columbian Plymouth Rock chickens to determine the effect of water-cooled roosts on performance in hot ambient conditions.
(12) Brains of juvenile gray bats, Myotis grisescens, found dead beneath maternity roosts in two Missouri caves contained lethal concentrations of dieldrin.
(13) Decreases in performance during the heat-stress period from the thermoneutral control values were: 5.95 and 13.1 percentage points for hen-day egg production, 22.2 and 34.8 percentage points for average daily feed intake, and 5.17 and 15.38 percentage points for hatchability in water-cooled and air-equilibrated roost treatments, respectively.
(14) Seven species of mites were recovered from 133 Brazilian free-tailed bats, Tadarida brasiliensis, and 94 big brown bats, Eptesicus fuscus, from February through November 1990 in colonies that shared roosting space in east-central Alabama.
(15) Plater's agent for many years was the terrifying Peggy Ramsay, whom he memorialised in his Hampstead theatre play, Peggy for You (1999), with Maureen Lipman giving one of her greatest performances, ruling the roost in her St Martin's Lane eyrie with the eccentric hauteur of a mad Russian empress.
(16) But four years after Greece went hypercritical, triggering a eurozone sovereign debt crisis and a reshaping of how the EU works, the social, economic and political costs of the upheaval are coming home to roost.
(17) Hens were housed in an apparatus consisting of an upper roosting chamber connected to two descending passages which led to separate identical feeding chambers.
(18) It is concluded that the water-cooled roost partially alleviated heat stress by lowering metabolic rate.
(19) Birds subjected to the water-cooled roost treatment had consistently higher performance than birds using the air-equilibrated roost under all three ambient temperatures.
(20) On top of that the SNP, which would doubtless rule the roost in the aftermath of a vote for independence it would rightly be seen to have brought about, is still no party of the centre-left.