rice
Forms
- Plural
- rices
- present (v1)
- rice
- past (v2)
- riced
- past participle (v3)
- riced
- present participle
- ricing
- 3rd person singular
- rices
Definitions
1.Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
- Drought stress causes yield reductions and sometimes total crop failures in rainfed rice areas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
- Rice is a tropical plant; yet Carolina and Georgia grow the finest in the world; heavier grained, better filled, and more merchantable, than any imported into Europe from the Indies.
2.A specific variety of this plant.
- The rices of Kashmír are infinite in variety. In one tahsíl I have found fifty-three varieties.
- For commercial purposes, the rices are classified according to the kernel length as short-grain, medium-grain, longgrain and long-slender-grain.
3.The seeds of this plant used as food.
- In Britain too rice is reputed to increase the sexual faculties.
- On the festival day, rice is cooked together with this rice knot above.
4.The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.(humorous)
- Do you want some more rice?
- I prefer rice to bread.
1.To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes).
- Following ricing, the potato mash proceeds to the drum drier where flaking is done.
- Riced Potato. Have a flat dish and the colander hot. With a spoon, rub mashed potato through the colander on to the hot dish.
- Last night I riced the potatoes and added in the cream and butter while they were hot, so today wll we have to do is add flour and roll them out.
2.To harvest wild rice (Zizania spp.)
- As it was, the Indian seldom bothered to harvest wild rice on public waters after opening day of the ricing season.
- In northern Minnesota the whites have invented the verb "to rice," and speak of "ricing," i. e., harvesting the crop of wild rice.
- When ricing, the Ojibway dress warmly at first; by midday they may shed some clothes as harvest toil combines with the hot sun of late summer to warm them.
3.To customize the user interface of a computer system, e.g. a desktop environment. (derived from rice out)
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2442
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English rys, from Old French ris, from Old Italian riso, risi, from Byzantine Greek ὄρυζα (óruza), from an Eastern Iranian language related to Middle Persian blnc (*brinǰ), Northern Kurdish riz (beyond Euphrates) and Zazaki riz. Theorized to come to Iranian languages from Sanskrit व्रीहि (vrīhi).