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RICE
rice
(noun) grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
Rice, Elmer Rice, Elmer Leopold Rice, Elmer Reizenstein
(noun) United States playwright (1892-1967)
Rice, Sir Tim Rice, Timothy Miles Bindon Rice
(noun) English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944)
rice
(noun) annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
rice
(verb) sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice; “rice the potatoes”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
rice (countable and uncountable, plural rices)
(uncountable) Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
(countable) A specific variety of this plant.
(uncountable) The seeds of this plant used as food.
Hyponyms
(Hyponyms of rice (noun)):
• Ambemohar
• arborio
• aromatic rice
• basmati
• beaten rice
• Bhutanese red rice
• black rice
• bora saul
• brown rice
• Calrose rice
• Camargue red rice
• carnaroli
• Champa rice
• flattened rice
• glutinous rice
• golden rice
• jasmine rice
• Patna rice
• red rice
• samba rice
• longevity rice
• purple rice
• sticky rice
• sweet rice
• waxy rice
• white rice
Holonyms
• bhelpuri
• California roll
• dosa
• gumbo
• idli
• jambalaya
• khir
• mirin
• mochi
• nasi goreng
• onigiri
• pad thai
• paella
• pilaf, pilau
• rangoli
• rijsttafel
• risotto
• sake
• samshu
• sushi
Verb
rice (third-person singular simple present rices, present participle ricing, simple past and past participle riced)
(transitive) To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes).
(intransitive) To harvest wild rice (Zizania sp.)
(rare) To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).
(computing, transitive) To customize the user interface of a computer system, e.g. a desktop environment.
Etymology 2
Noun
rice (plural rices)
(now chiefly, dialectal, Scotland, Ireland) A twig or stick.
(weaving, obsolete) A bobbin or spool.
Anagrams
• ERIC, Eric, cire, eric, icer
Proper noun
Rice (plural Rices)
A patronymic surname derived from Welsh given name Rhys.
Anagrams
• ERIC, Eric, cire, eric, icer
Noun
RICE (uncountable)
(medicine) Initialism of rest, ice, compression, elevation: a treatment method for soft-tissue injuries.
(chemistry) Initialism of reaction, initial, change, equilibrium: a tabular system for keeping track of changing concentrations in an equilibrium reaction.
Anagrams
• ERIC, Eric, cire, eric, icer
Source: Wiktionary
Rice, n. Etym: [F. riz (cf. Pr. ris, It. riso), L. oryza, Gr. brizi, akin to Skr. vrihi; or perh. akin to E. rye. Cf. Rye.] (Bot.)
Definition: A well-known cereal grass (Oryza sativa) and its seed. This plant is extensively cultivated in warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants. In America it grows chiefly on low, moist land, which can be overflowed. Ant rice. (Bot.) See under Ant.
– French rice. (Bot.) See Amelcorn.
– Indian rice., a tall reedlike water grass (Zizania aquatica), bearing panicles of a long, slender grain, much used for food by North American Indians. It is common in shallow water in the Northern States. Called also water oat, Canadian wild rice, etc.
– Mountain rice, any species of an American genus (Oryzopsis) of grasses, somewhat resembling rice.
– Rice bunting. (Zoöl.) Same as Ricebird.
– Rice hen (Zoöl.), the Florida gallinule.
– Rice mouse (Zoöl.), a large dark-colored field mouse (Calomys palistris) of the Southern United States.
– Rice paper, a kind of thin, delicate paper, brought from China, - - used for painting upon, and for the manufacture of fancy articles. It is made by cutting the pith of a large herb (Fatsia papyrifera, related to the ginseng) into one roll or sheet, which is flattened out under pressure. Called also pith paper.
– Rice troupial (Zoöl.), the bobolink.
– Rice water, a drink for invalids made by boiling a small quantity of rice in water.
– Rice-water discharge (Med.), a liquid, resembling rice water in appearance, which is vomited, and discharged from the bowels, in cholera.
– Rice weevil (Zoöl.), a small beetle (Calandra, or Sitophilus, oryzæ) which destroys rice, wheat, and Indian corn by eating out the interior; -- called also black weevil.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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