Roast vs. Rost — What's the Difference?

Cook (food, especially meat) by prolonged exposure to heat in an oven or over a fire

Rost may refer to:

Criticize or reprimand severely

Obsolete form of roast

(of food) having been roasted

Obsolete form of roast

A joint of meat that has been roasted or that is intended for roasting

See Roust.

A banquet at which the guest of honour is subjected to good-natured ridicule.

To cook with dry heat, as in an oven or near hot coals.

To dry, brown, or parch by exposing to heat.

To expose to great or excessive heat.

(Metallurgy) To heat (ores) in a furnace in order to dehydrate, purify, or oxidize before smelting.

To ridicule or criticize harshly.

To honor at or subject to a roast.

To cook food in an oven.

To undergo roasting.

Something roasted.

A cut of meat suitable or prepared for roasting.

The act or process of roasting.

The state of being roasted.

Harsh ridicule or criticism.

A facetious tribute, as at a banquet, in which the honoree is alternately praised and insulted.

Roasted

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.

To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.

To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.

To admonish someone vigorously.

To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.

(metalworking) To dissipate the volatile parts of by heat, as ores.

A cut of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.

A meal consisting of roast foods.

The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.

An instance of being severely admonished, criticized, roasted.

A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.

(North America) A social event at which food is roasted and eaten.

(slang) A creative insult as a response to something someone said.

Having been cooked by roasting.

(figuratively) Subjected to roasting; bantered; severely criticized. en

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.

To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.

To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.

Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.

To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.

To banter severely.

To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven.

To undergo the process of being roasted.

That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.

Roasted; as, roast beef.

A piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion

Negative criticism

Cook with dry heat, usually in an oven;

Subject to laughter or ridicule;

(of meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven