roastとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) enPR: rōst, IPA^(key): /ɹoʊst/
• (Received 発音) enPR: rōst, IPA^(key): /ɹəʊst/
• 韻: -əʊst

動詞

roast (三人称単数 現在形 roasts, 現在分詞 roasting, 過去形および過去分詞形 roasted)

1. (transitive or intransitive or ergative) To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.

   Coordinate terms: bake, boil, broil, fry, grill, poach, toast

   to roast meat on a spit

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

   to roast a potato in ashes

   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] VVilliam Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:

     In eggs boiled and roasted […] there is scarce difference to be discerned.

3. (transitive or intransitive or ergative) To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat

   Coffee beans need roasting before use.

   to roast chestnuts or peanuts

4. To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii]:

     roasted in wrath and fire

5. (transitive, figuratively) To admonish someone vigorously

   I’m late home for the fourth time this week; my mate will really roast me this time.

6. (transitive, figuratively) To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.

   The class clown enjoys being roasted by mates as well as staff.

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

派生語

• roasting ear
• roasting jack

名詞

roast (複数形 roasts)

1. A cut of meat suited to roasting
2. A meal consisting of roast foods.
3. The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.

   Dark roast means that the coffee bean has been roasted to a higher temperature and for a longer period of time than in light roast.

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

派生語

• nut roast
• roastmaster

形容詞

roast (not comparable)

1. Having been cooked by roasting.

   Synonym: roasted

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

派生語

• roast beef