roast vs value

roast

verb
  • To admonish someone vigorously. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

adj
  • Having been cooked by roasting. 

  • Subjected to roasting; bantered; severely criticized. 

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

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

  • A social event at which food is roasted and eaten. 

  • A creative insult as a response to something someone said. 

  • A meal consisting of roast foods. 

value

verb
  • To hold dear. 

  • To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon. 

  • To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work. 

  • To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something. 

noun
  • The degree of importance given to something. 

  • The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc. 

  • The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc. 

  • The relative duration of a musical note. 

  • That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system. 

  • The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else. 

  • The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable. 

  • Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined. 

  • Precise meaning; import. 

How often have the words roast and value occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )