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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