different between satire vs roast

English

Etymology

From Middle French satire, from Old French, from Latin satira, from earlier satura, from lanx satura (“full dish”), from feminine of satur. Altered in Latin by influence of Ancient Greek ??????? (sáturos, “satyr”), on the mistaken notion that the form is related to the Greek ????????? ????? (saturikón dráma, “satyr drama”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sæta??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sæta??/
• Hyphenation: sat?ire

Noun

satire (countable and uncountable, plural satires)

1. (uncountable) A literary device of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. Humor, irony, and exaggeration are often used to aid this.
2. (countable) A satirical work.

3. (uncountable, dated) Severity of remark.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• satire in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• satire in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Usage notes

Often confused with parody, which does not necessarily have an element of social change.

Anagrams

• striae, striæ, terais, terasi

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sati?r?/, [sa?t?i??]

Noun

satire c (singular definite satiren, plural indefinite satirer)

1. satire

Inflection

Related terms

• satiriker ("satirist")
• satirisere ("satirize")
• satirisk ("satiric", "satirical")

Further reading

• satire on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French satire, German Satire or Latin satira, from Latin satur but influenced by Ancient Greek ??????? (sáturos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa??ti?.r?/
• Hyphenation: sa?ti?re
• Rhymes: -i?r?

Noun

satire f (plural satires or satiren)

1. A satire.

Derived terms

• satiriek
• satirisch
• satirist

Related terms

• satyr

French

Noun

satire f (plural satires)

1. satire

Further reading

• “satire” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

satire f

1. plural of satira

Anagrams

• ariste, estrai, restai, restia, risate, ritesa, sartie, starei

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin satura, satira

Noun

satire m (definite singular satiren, indefinite plural satirer, definite plural satirene)

1. satire

Derived terms

• satirisk

References

• “satire” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin satura, satira

Noun

satire m (definite singular satiren, indefinite plural satirar, definite plural satirane)

1. satire

Derived terms

• satirisk

References

• “satire” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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