Barbeque is meat that baked with woods

[Rosario]

Hello guys,

Someone asked me, what is barbeque?
I answered him like this sentence:

Barbeque is meat that baked with woods.

Is that correct answer?

Many thanks.

[Cerberus™]

You got the general idea, but the sentence is not entirely correct. What comes closest to your sentence might be this:
A barbecue is a structure with a grill for roasting meat over a fire.

[Rosario]

Hello Cerberus,

Thanks a lot for the answer.

[Topaze]

Cerberus,

It would seem that there is a little misunderstanding here. The word barbeque has several meanings, i.e. meat cooked outdoors with charcoal, on a grill etc., a device/apparatus used for roasting it and a party at which meals are cooked in this manner. Rosario's sentence, however incorrect, was clearly referring to the first meaning, while you, it appears, provided the second one.

[Cerberus™]

I know that; but the principal and oldest sense, from which the other senses are derived, is neither the meat nor the occasion on which it is eaten. Since Rosario was explaining the word to someone else, she probably intended to give its principal sense; if not, she might have provided more context here.