Toast vs. Roast

Toastnoun

(uncountable) Toasted bread.

Toastnoun

(countable) A proposed salutation (e.g. to say "cheers") while drinking alcohol.

Toastnoun

(countable) A person, group, or notable object to which a salutation with alcohol is made; a person or group held in similar esteem.

Toastnoun

Something that will be no more; something subject to impending destruction, harm or injury.

Toastnoun

Extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.

Toastnoun

A transient, informational pop-up window.

Toastverb

To lightly cook by browning via direct exposure to a fire or other heat source.

Toastverb

To grill, lightly cook by browning specifically under a grill or in a toaster

Toastverb

To engage in a salutation and/or accompanying raising of glasses while drinking alcohol in honor of someone or something.

Toastverb

To warm thoroughly.

Toastverb

To perform extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.

Toastverb

To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.

Toastverb

To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.

Toastverb

To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.

Toastnoun

Bread dried and browned before a fire, usually in slices; also, a kind of food prepared by putting slices of toasted bread into milk, gravy, etc.

Toastnoun

A lady in honor of whom persons or a company are invited to drink; - so called because toasts were formerly put into the liquor, as a great delicacy.

Toastnoun

Hence, any person, especially a person of distinction, in honor of whom a health is drunk; hence, also, anything so commemorated; a sentiment, as "The land we live in," "The day we celebrate," etc.

Toastnoun

slices of bread that have been toasted

Toastnoun

a celebrity who receives much accalim and attention;

Toastnoun

a person in desperate straits; someone doomed;

Toastnoun

a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event

Toastverb

make brown and crisp by heating;

Toastverb

propose a toast to;

Roastverb

To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.

Roastverb

To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.

Roastverb

To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat

Roastverb

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

Roastverb

To admonish someone vigorously

Roastverb

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

Roastverb

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

Roastnoun

A cut of meat suited to roasting

Roastnoun

A meal consisting of roast foods.

Roastnoun

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

Roastnoun

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

Roastadjective

Having been cooked by roasting.

Roastadjective

(figuratively) Subjected to roasting, bantered, severely criticized.

Roastverb

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.

Roastverb

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

Roastverb

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

Roastverb

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

Roastverb

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

Roastverb

To banter severely.

Roastverb

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

Roastverb

To undergo the process of being roasted.

Roastnoun

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

Roastadjective

Roasted; as, roast beef.

Roastnoun

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

Roastnoun

negative criticism

Roastverb

cook with dry heat, usually in an oven;

Roastverb

subject to laughter or ridicule;

Roastadjective

(of meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven

Roastverb

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

Roastverb

(of food) be cooked by roasting

Roastverb

process (a foodstuff, metal ore, etc.) by subjecting it to intense heat

Roastverb

make or become very warm, especially through exposure to the heat of the sun or a fire

Roastverb

criticize or reprimand severely

Roastverb

subject to good-natured ridicule

Roastadjective

(of food) having been roasted

Roastnoun

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

Roastnoun

the process of roasting something, especially coffee, or the result of this

Roastnoun

a particular type of roasted coffee

Roastnoun

an outdoor party at which meat of a particular type is roasted

Roastnoun

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