RICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rice mean? 

• RICE (noun)
  The noun RICE has 4 senses:

1. grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished

2. annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper

3. English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944)

4. United States playwright (1892-1967)

  Familiarity information: RICE used as a noun is uncommon.

• RICE (verb)
  The verb RICE has 1 sense:

1. sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice

  Familiarity information: RICE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("rice" is a kind of...):

starches (foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread))

cereal; food grain; grain (foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rice"):

brown rice (unpolished rice retaining the yellowish-brown outer layer)

polished rice; white rice (having husk or outer brown layers removed)

paddy (rice in the husk either gathered or still in the field)

Holonyms ("rice" is a part of...):

cultivated rice; Oryza sativa (yields the staple food of 50 percent of world's population)

Derivation:

rice (sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("rice" is a kind of...):

cereal; cereal grass (grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet)

Meronyms (substance of "rice"):

rice beer; sake; saki (Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rice"):

cultivated rice; Oryza sativa (yields the staple food of 50 percent of world's population)

Holonyms ("rice" is a member of...):

genus Oryza; Oryza (rice)

Sense 3

Meaning:

English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Rice; Sir Tim Rice; Timothy Miles Bindon Rice

Instance hypernyms:

lyricist; lyrist (a person who writes the words for songs)

Sense 4

Meaning:

United States playwright (1892-1967)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Elmer Leopold Rice; Elmer Reizenstein; Elmer Rice; Rice

Instance hypernyms:

dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)

• RICE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

rice the potatoes

Hypernyms (to "rice" is one way to...):

sieve; sift; strain (separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

rice (grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished)

ricer (a kitchen utensil used for ricing soft foods by extruding them through small holes)

 Context examples 

Wheat and rice are the staple food of the Chinese people, and 60 percent of them depend on rice.

(Saltwater Rice Successfully Harvested by Chinese Scientists, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The authors said the impact would be most significant for the poorest citizens of some of the least-developed countries, who eat the most rice and have the least diverse diets.

(Planet-Warming Gases Make Some Food Less Nutritious, Study Says, Steve Baragona/VOA)

Tiny, gold seeds, about the size of a grain of rice, that are put in and/or around a tumor to show exactly where it is in the body.

(Gold fiducial marker seeds, NCI Dictionary)

A new paper shows that this disastrous effect was triggered by a previously unknown risk factor: flooding rice fields for farming.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)

The rice plants that produce sorgoleone should require less herbicides to control weeds.

(Transferring Sorghum’s Weed-Killing Power to Rice, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

According to expedition co-chief scientist Gerald Dickens of Rice University in the U.S., significant new fossil discoveries were made.

(Scientists return from expedition to lost continent of Zealandia, National Science Foundation)

Of the major food crops, only rice is currently able to survive flooding.

(Grains in the rain, National Science Foundation)

I addressed myself to a man behind the counter, who was weighing some rice for a young woman; but the latter, taking the inquiry to herself, turned round quickly.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It came out with a brown rice paper and a pinch of Mexican tobacco, which were deftly rolled together into a cigarette.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

An arabinoxylane polysaccharide composed of the hemicellulose-Beta extract of rice bran, treated with enzymes from Shiitake mushrooms, that exerts antitumor and antiviral activity by increasing the level of natural killer cells activation.

(MGN3, NCI Thesaurus)