Look up: roasting

1. roasting
   [n] - cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added)
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2. Roasting
   Roast'ing adjective & noun , from Roast , v. Roasting ear , an ear of Indian corn at that stage of development when it is fit to be eaten roasted. -- Roasting jack , a machine for turning a spit on which meat is roasted.
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3. roasting
   noun cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added); `the slow roasting took several hours`
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4. Roasting
   • a. & n., from Roast, v. • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Roast
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5. roasting
   (from the article `Europe, history of`) ...with other metals were explored. The copper sulfide ores from these deep mines were more difficult to procure, since they relied on more ... ...of impurities such as arsenic and other elements. Smelting frees the metal from the various combinations with which it is bound into the compound ... ...
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6. roasting
   the cooking, primarily of meats but also of corn ears, potatoes, or other vegetables thus prepared, by exposure to dry, radiant heat either over an ... [3 related articles]
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7. Roasting
   Cooking meat in an oven or over an open fire.
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8. Roasting
   Roasting is a method of cooking in which the fumes caused by the operation are carried off. Traditionally roasting occurs in the open air, perhaps upon a spit over a fire. This differs from baking which occurs within an oven by virtue of when baking the fumes are not carried off. In the mid-19th cen...
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9. roasting
   roasting: see cooking.
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10. Roasting
    Controlled heating of sulphide concentrates to convert them to the oxide by driving off and capturing the sulphur.
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11. Roasting
    `Roasting` is a cooking method that uses dry heat, whether an open flame, oven, or other heat source. Roasting usually causes caramelization or Maillard browning of the surface of the food, which is considered by some as a date=January 2010--> Roasting uses more indirect, diffused heat (as in an ove...
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12. Roasting
    (metallurgy) `Roasting` is a step in the processing of certain ores. More specifically, roasting is a metallurgical process involving gas-solids reactions at elevated temperatures with the goal of purifying the metal component(s). Often before roasting, the ore has already been partially puri...
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