different between roast vs scorch

English

Etymology

From Middle English rosten, a borrowing from Old French rostir (“to roast, to torture with fire”), from Frankish *r?stijan (“to roast, broil”), from Proto-Germanic *raustijan? (“to roast”), from Proto-Indo-European *rews- (“to crackle; roast”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian rosterje (“to roast”), Dutch roosten, roosteren (“to roast”), German rösten (“to roast”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: r?st, IPA^(key): /?o?st/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: r?st, IPA^(key): /???st/
• Rhymes: -??st

Verb

roast (third-person singular simple present roasts, present participle roasting, simple past and past participle 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

2. To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
3. (transitive or intransitive or ergative) To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat

4. To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
5. (transitive, figuratively) To admonish someone vigorously

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

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

Derived terms

• roasting ear
• roasting jack

Translations

Noun

roast (plural 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.

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

Derived terms

• nut roast
• roastmaster

Translations

Adjective

roast (not comparable)

1. Having been cooked by roasting.

   Synonym: roasted

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

Derived terms

• roast beef

Translations

See also

• barbecue
• chargrill
• grill
• joint
• roasties

Anagrams

• Astor, Astro, Roats, Sarot, Troas, artos, astro, astro-, ratos, rotas, sorta, taros, tarso-

Estonian

Noun

roast

1. elative singular of roog

English

Etymology

From Middle English scorchen, scorcnen (“to make dry; parch”), perhaps an alteration of earlier *scorpnen, from Old Norse skorpna (“to shrivel up”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sk??t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /sk??t?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?

Noun

scorch (countable and uncountable, plural scorches)

1. A slight or surface burn.
2. A discolouration caused by heat.
3. (phytopathology) Brown discoloration on the leaves of plants caused by heat, lack of water or by fungi.

Synonyms

• (slight burn): singe

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

scorch (third-person singular simple present scorches, present participle scorching, simple past and past participle scorched)

1. (transitive) To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it
2. (transitive) To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy
   • 1709, Matthew Prior, Pleasure

     Lashed by mad rage, and scorched by brutal fires.

3. (ergative) (To cause) to become scorched or singed
4. (intransitive) To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground, physically or figuratively).
5. To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.

   • Power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.

   • the fire that scorches me to death

6. (transitive) To attack with bitter sarcasm or virulence.
7. (intransitive, colloquial, dated) To ride a bicycle furiously on a public highway.

Translations

See also

• livid

References