Broil vs. Roast: What's the Difference?

Broil and Roast Definitions
Broil
To cook by direct radiant heat, as over a grill or under an electric element.
Roast
To cook with dry heat, as in an oven or near hot coals.
Broil
To expose to great heat.
Roast
To dry, brown, or parch by exposing to heat.
Broil
To be exposed to great heat.
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Roast
To expose to great or excessive heat.
Broil
To engage in a rowdy argument.
Roast
(Metallurgy) To heat (ores) in a furnace in order to dehydrate, purify, or oxidize before smelting.
Broil
The act of broiling or the condition of being broiled.
Roast
To ridicule or criticize harshly.
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Broil
Food, especially meat, that is broiled.
Roast
To honor at or subject to a roast.
Broil
A rowdy argument.
Roast
To cook food in an oven.
Broil
To cook by direct, radiant heat.
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Roast
To undergo roasting.
Broil
To expose to great heat.
Roast
Something roasted.
Broil
To be exposed to great heat.
Roast
A cut of meat suitable or prepared for roasting.
Broil
(transitive) To cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil.
Roast
The act or process of roasting.
Broil
To brawl.
Roast
The state of being roasted.
Broil
Food prepared by broiling.
Roast
Harsh ridicule or criticism.
Broil
(archaic) A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.
Come to broils
Roast
A facetious tribute, as at a banquet, in which the honoree is alternately praised and insulted.
Broil
A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state.
I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.
Roast
Roasted
Roast duck.
Broil
To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals.
Roast
To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.
To roast meat on a spit
Broil
To subject to great (commonly direct) heat.
Roast
To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
To roast a potato in ashes
Broil
To be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat.
The planets and comets had been broiling in the sun.
Roast
To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.
Coffee beans need roasting before use.
To roast chestnuts or peanuts
Broil
Cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill)
Roast
To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
Broil
Cook under a broiler;
Broil fish
Roast
To admonish someone vigorously.
I'm late home for the fourth time this week; my mate will really roast me this time.
Broil
Heat by a natural force;
The sun broils the valley in the summer
Roast
To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
The class clown enjoys being roasted by mates as well as staff.
Roast
(metalworking) To dissipate the volatile parts of by heat, as ores.
Roast
A cut of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.
Serve the roast with gravy and mashed potatoes.
Roast
A meal consisting of roast foods.
Come over this weekend for Sunday roast.
Roast
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.
Roast
An instance of being severely admonished, criticized, roasted.
Roast
A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.
Roast
(North America) A social event at which food is roasted and eaten.
On Memorial Day we hosted a wiener roast in the backyard.
Roast
(slang) A creative insult as a response to something someone said.
Roast
Having been cooked by roasting.
Roast
(figuratively) Subjected to roasting; bantered; severely criticized. en
Roast
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.
Roast
To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.
In eggs boiled and roasted there is scarce difference to be discerned.
Roast
To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.
Roast
Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
Roast
To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
Roast
To banter severely.
Roast
To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven.
He could roast, and seethe, and broil, and fry.
Roast
To undergo the process of being roasted.
Roast
That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.
A fat swan loved he best of any roost [roast].
Roast
Roasted; as, roast beef.
Roast
A piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion
Roast
Negative criticism
Roast
Cook with dry heat, usually in an oven;
Roast the turkey
Roast
Subject to laughter or ridicule;
The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house
The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher
His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday
Roast
(of meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven