rice
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
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).
Prior to Sanskrit, it is speculated to be possibly a borrowing from a Dravidian language (compare Proto-Dravidian *wariñci (“rice”)), or from Austroasiatic languages further east.
Alternatively Byzantine Greek ὄρυζα (óruza) is said to be from Hebrew אורז (órez), from South Arabian areez ultimately from Old Tamil 𑀅𑀭𑀺𑀘𑀺 (arici).
Doublet of arroz.
Inflected forms:
form: rices
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rices
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ricing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: riced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: riced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 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.
Drought stress causes yield reductions and sometimes total crop failures in rainfed rice areas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Rice transformed with genes encoding human CYP1a1, CYP2B6, and CYP2C19 are more tolerant of various herbicides than non-transgenic rice plants, due to increased metabolism by the introduced P450 enzymes [Kawwahigashi et al. 2005a, 2007, 2008; James et al. 2008].
gloss: A specific variety of this plant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The rices of Kashmír are infinite in variety. In one tahsíl I have found fifty-three varieties.
First, we have the Italian rices; secondly, the rices of the French colonies of Indo-China and Madagascar, which are beginning to cultivate rices of very fine quality, altogether superior to those that were cultivated only a few years back.
For commercial purposes, the rices are classified according to the kernel length as short-grain, medium-grain, longgrain and long-slender-grain.
gloss: The seeds of this plant used as food.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Mold boiled rice, when hot, in cups which have been previously dipped in cold water; when cold, turn them out on a flat dish, arranging them uniformly; then with a tea-spoon scoop out a little of the rice from the top of each cone, and put in its place any kind of jelly.
In Britain too rice is reputed to increase the sexual faculties.
In sum, when a modern Japanese family and its members sit around the supper table eating their bowls of Japanese-grown rice, they are not simply indulging a gastronomic preference for short-grained and slightly sticky japonica rice over long-grained indica rice from Thailand.
On the festival day, rice is cooked together with this rice knot above.
gloss: The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.
pos: noun
tags: ethnic
humorous
slang
slur
uncountable
gloss: An instance of customization of a user interface.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: This is my first rice!
gloss: To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Riced Potato. Have a flat dish and the colander hot. With a spoon, rub mashed potato through the colander on to the hot dish.
Following ricing, the potato mash proceeds to the drum drier where flaking is done.
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.
gloss: To harvest wild rice (Zizania spp.)
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
As it was, the Indian seldom bothered to harvest wild rice on public waters after opening day of the ricing season.
gloss: To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).
pos: verb
tags: rare
examples: So far as I can make out, the idiotic function of “ricing” English brides and bridegrooms is not twenty years old.
The couple was well riced and sent on their way.
As the reception ended the two newlyweds were riced to death and fled into an awaiting getaway car and drove off...followed by a stream of tin cans.
gloss: To customize the user interface of a computer system, e.g. a desktop environment. (derived from rice out)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: African rice
ant rice
arborio rice
Arborio rice
artificial rice
baby rice
black rice
brewers' rice
brewer's rice
broken rice
brown rice
cauliflower rice
cheese and rice
claypot rice
cook-up rice
Coues' rice rat
dirty rice
economy rice
flattened rice
forbidden rice
French rice
fried rice
fried rice syndrome
glorified rice
golden rice
Hainanese chicken rice
hanging rice
hom mali rice
hungry rice
Indian rice
iron rice bowl
Italian rice ball
Japanese rice ball
jollof rice
like white on rice
longevity rice
long rice
Manchurian wild rice
mealie rice
Mexican rice
mountain rice
nonrice
northern wild rice
oily rice
omu rice
omu-rice
Patna rice
peas and rice
polished rice
pudding rice
puffed rice
purple rice
red yeast rice
rice and peas
rice bag
rice ball
rice bean
rice beer
ricebird
rice biscuit
rice blast
rice bowl
rice box
riceburger
rice burner
rice cake
rice car
ricecel
rice chaser
rice Christian
rice congee
rice cooker
rice cracker
rice-cracker
rice cutgrass
rice eater
rice-eater
ricefield
rice field
ricefish
rice flakes
rice flour
rice flower
rice glue
ricegrass
rice grass
ricegrower
rice growing
rice hat
rice hen
rice hull
rice huller
rice husk
rice husker
rice king
riceland
rice leafhopper
riceless
ricelike
rice malt
ricemeal
rice milk
rice-mill
rice mill
rice moth
rice nigger
rice noodle
rice out
rice paddle
rice paddy
rice paddy herb
rice paper
rice-paper plant
rice pounder
rice pudding
rice-queen
rice queen
ricer
rice rat
rice rocket
riceroot
rice sheath mite
rice shell
rice-spirit
rice steamer
rice stick
rice stitch
rice swift
rice tenrec
rice vermicelli
rice vinegar
rice water
rice weevil
rice wine
ricey
Spanish rice
special fried rice
sticky rice
sweet fermented rice
taco rice
thunder tea rice
white on rice
white rice
wild rice
Translations: