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# roast

«roast» in Mova's school dictionary: **To cook food, like meat or vegetables, in an oven or over…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (roast, roasts, roasted, roasting); noun (a roast, roasts); adjective (roast)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To cook food, like meat or vegetables, in an oven or over a fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roast/#m1)

2) As an adjective, cooked in this way: "roast chicken", "roast potatoes". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roast/#m2)

3) As a noun, a piece of roasted meat or a big meal with it: "Sunday roast". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roast/#m3)

4) Informally, to be very hot: "I'm roasting!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roast/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, many families have a Sunday roast. In cooking lessons pupils learn that roasting uses dry heat. Around a campfire people roast marshmallows. Phrases: Sunday roast, roast dinner, roast potatoes, roast marshmallows.

### examples

- We roasted marshmallows over the campfire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roast/#x1)
- Dad roasts a chicken every Sunday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roast/#x2)
- Roast potatoes are crispy on the outside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roast/#x3)
- We had a roast dinner at Grandma's. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roast/#x4)
- Roast the carrots for forty minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roast/#x5)
- I'm roasting in this coat! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roast/#x6)
- The smell of roast beef filled the kitchen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roast/#x7)
- The apples were beginning to roast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roast/#x8)

### note

Regular verb: roast, roasted. As an adjective people say "roast chicken" more than "roasted chicken". In maths cooking problems, time is often given per kilogram: if 1 kilogram takes 45 minutes, 2 kilograms take 90 minutes. Safety: use oven gloves; roasting tins are very hot.

### In the corpora

- [Carve a roast chicken and you can count two legs, two wings and two breasts, each a different muscle.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/5/)
- [Only after fermenting, drying and roasting do they start to smell of chocolate.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/5/)
- [Fresh cocoa beans taste bitter and smell of chocolate only after fermenting, drying and roasting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/14/)
- [The Woman throws Wild Dog a roast bone, and he wants more.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant/5/)
- [A word that sounds cool in a headset sounds very different over roast potatoes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «roast» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roast/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.