Broil vs. Roast: What's the Difference?

To cook by direct radiant heat, as over a grill or under an electric element.

To cook with dry heat, as in an oven or near hot coals.

To expose to great heat.

To dry, brown, or parch by exposing to heat.

To be exposed to great heat.

To expose to great or excessive heat.

To engage in a rowdy argument.

(Metallurgy) To heat (ores) in a furnace in order to dehydrate, purify, or oxidize before smelting.

The act of broiling or the condition of being broiled.

To ridicule or criticize harshly.

Food, especially meat, that is broiled.

To honor at or subject to a roast.

A rowdy argument.

To cook food in an oven.

To cook by direct, radiant heat.

To undergo roasting.

To expose to great heat.

Something roasted.

To be exposed to great heat.

A cut of meat suitable or prepared for roasting.

(transitive) To cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil.

The act or process of roasting.

To brawl.

The state of being roasted.

Food prepared by broiling.

Harsh ridicule or criticism.

(archaic) A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.

A facetious tribute, as at a banquet, in which the honoree is alternately praised and insulted.

A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state.

Roasted

To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals.

To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.

To subject to great (commonly direct) heat.

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

To be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat.

To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.

Cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill)

To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.

Cook under a broiler;

To admonish someone vigorously.

Heat by a natural force;

To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.

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

A cut of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.

A meal consisting of roast foods.

The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.

An instance of being severely admonished, criticized, roasted.

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

(North America) A social event at which food is roasted and eaten.

(slang) A creative insult as a response to something someone said.

Having been cooked by roasting.

(figuratively) Subjected to roasting; bantered; severely criticized. en

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.

To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.

To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.

Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.

To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.

To banter severely.

To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven.

To undergo the process of being roasted.

That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.

Roasted; as, roast beef.

A piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion

Negative criticism

Cook with dry heat, usually in an oven;

Subject to laughter or ridicule;

(of meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven