Meaning of rice | Babel Free

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1. A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic].
   countable, uncountable
2. Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
   uncountable
3. A twig or stick.
   Ireland, Scotland, dialectal
4. rice (cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food)
5. Acronym of rest, ice, compression, elevation (“a treatment method for soft-tissue injuries”).
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
6. A number of places in the United States:
   countable, uncountable
7. A former town in the Rice Valley, San Bernardino County, California.
   countable, uncountable
8. To sieve (food) to the consistency of rice.
9. A specific variety of this plant.
   countable
10. A bobbin or spool.
    obsolete
11. rice (the seeds of this plant used as food)
12. Acronym of rest, immobilization, cold, elevation (“a treatment method for soft-tissue injuries”).
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
13. An unincorporated community in Cloud County, Kansas.
    countable, uncountable
14. a plant, grown in well-watered ground in tropical countries, whose seeds are used as food. rys أرُز ориз arroz rýže der Reis ris ρύζιarroz riis برنج riisi rizאורז चावल riža rizs padi hrísgrjón riso 稲 벼 ryžiai rīss beras, nasi rijstrisryż وريژې ، وريجې ، وريځې arroz orez рис ryža riž pirinač ris ต้นข้าว pirinç 稻子，稻米 рис چاول cây lúa 稻米，大米
15. The seeds of this plant used as food.
    uncountable
16. Acronym of reaction, initial, change, equilibrium (“a tabular system for keeping track of changing concentrations in an equilibrium reaction”).
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
17. A city in Benton County, Minnesota.
    countable, uncountable
18. A cereal grass (Oryza sativa) that is cultivated extensively in warm climates for its edible grain.
    (Oryza sativa)
19. The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.
    ethnic, humorous, slang, slur, uncountable
20. Acronym of reciprocating internal combustion engine.
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
21. An unincorporated community in Putnam County, Ohio.
    countable, uncountable
22. The starchy grain of this plant, used as a staple food throughout the world.
23. An instance of customization of a user interface.
    countable, slang, uncountable
24. An unincorporated community in Wasco County, Oregon, named after Horace Rice.
    countable, uncountable
25. (Plants) an erect grass, Oryza sativa, that grows in East Asia on wet ground and has drooping flower spikes and yellow oblong edible grains that become white when polished
    Oryza sativa
26. A minor city in Navarro County, Texas, named after William Marsh Rice.
    countable, uncountable
27. (Plants) the grain of this plant
28. An unincorporated community in Prince Edward County, Virginia.
    countable, uncountable
29. (Cookery) (tr) US and Canadian to sieve (potatoes or other vegetables) to a coarse mashed consistency, esp with a ricer
    tr
30. An unincorporated community in Stevens County, Washington, named after William B. Rice.
    countable, uncountable
31. (Biography) Elmer, original name Elmer Reizenstein. 1892–1967, US dramatist. His plays include The Adding Machine (1923) and Street Scene (1929), which was made into a musical by Kurt Weill in 1947
    Elmer Reizenstein
32. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Rice Township.
    countable, uncountable
33. (Medicine) rest, ice, compression, elevation: the recommended procedure for controlling inflammation in injured limbs or joints
34. the starchy seeds or grain of an annual marsh grass, Oryza sativa, cultivated in warm climates and used for food.
    Oryza sativa,

Equivalents

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].”

“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.”

“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.”

“This is my first rice!”

“To guard the bank from the impression of the water, a fence, OF STAKE AND RICE, may be made along the bottom of it next the sea, which will last till the surface on that side is sufficiently swarded, and the mound properly consolidated.”

“Another form of dead-hedge is the stake-and-rice, and it is formed of the branches of forest trees; and where these are plentiful and thorns scarce, it is an economical dead fence.”

“"Gilbert White, the well-known naturalist, in a letter dated Selborne, Oct. 4th, 1775, says, 'Our people here, you know, call coppice-wood or hedge-wood rice or rise. Is this word still in use in that neighbourhood? And is it also known in Surrey?"”

“[…] taken unlawfully from the same house five "machines called 'Engine-Weaving Loomes' worth thirty pounds, and two ounces of silke worth five shillings, and two joynt-stooles worth three shillings, and a pair of 'Rices to wind silke on' worth four shillings […]”

“The hanks are placed upon light, collapsible hexagon reels termed rices, which are easily lifted out of their position for the reception of the hank.”

“Swift (rice) Skein holder, hank holder.”

“This past weekend, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach set off a firestorm with his full-page ad in the New York Times accusing National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice of turning a blind eye to the Rwandan genocide when she was on President Bill Clinton’s national security team in the 1990s.”

“For a micromoon and Friday the 13th full moon to occur together is extraordinarily rare. The last time it happened was in 1832 and it won't happen again for more than 500 years according to Tony Rice, a meteorologist and engineer at NASA.”

“The care manager greeted Beth and Jim as they prepared to leave, […] and offered to give them brochures about RICE and physical therapy […] After the RICE therapy, Dr. Meredith recommended rehab for strengthening the ankle so that Beth could return to her physical fitness […]”

“The RICE method is a simple self-care technique that aims to reduce swelling, ease pain, and speed up healing.”

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