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rice¹
- /ɹaɪs/
Rhymes with -aɪs
Where it comes from
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 have 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.
noun rices
- Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food. 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.
- A specific variety of this plant. The rices of Kashmír are infinite in variety. In one tahsíl I have found fifty-three varieties.
- The seeds of this plant used as food. 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.
- The seeds of wild rice, used as food. We shoot bows and arrows. We hunt, fish, paddle canoes, have war dances, ride horses, run, jump, gather rice, gather berries, throw spears, rock cradles, worship the Great Spirit, grind corn, have council meetings, and perform dozens of other activities that Indians do.
- The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.
- An instance of customization of a user interface. This is my first rice!
verb rices · ricing · riced
- To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes). Riced Potato. Have a flat dish and the colander hot. With a spoon, rub mashed potato through the colander on to the hot dish.
- To harvest wild rice (Zizania spp.) In northern Minnesota the whites have invented the verb "to rice," and speak of "ricing," i. e., harvesting the crop of wild rice.
- To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding). So far as I can make out, the idiotic function of “ricing” English brides and bridegrooms is not twenty years old.
- To customize the user interface of a computer system, e.g. a desktop environment. (derived from rice out)
rice²
- /ɹaɪs/
Rhymes with -aɪs
Where it comes from
From Middle English ris, rys, from Old English hrīs (“branch; twig”), from Proto-Germanic *hrīsą (“bush; twig”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreys- (“to turn; bend; wind; move; shake”). Cognate with Scots reise, rice (“twigs; brushwood”), West Frisian riis, rys, Dutch rijs (“little branch; twig; osier; whip”), German Low German Ries, German Reis (“twig; sprig; shoot”), Swedish ris (“twigs; brush; rod”), Icelandic hrís.
noun rices · rise
- A twig or stick. 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.
- A bobbin or spool. […] 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 […]
Rice³
- /ɹaɪs/
Sounds like rice · Rhymes with -aɪs
Where it comes from
* As a Welsh surname, borrowed from Welsh Rhys, an Anglicization. Compare Reese, Freese, Price, and Preece.
* As an English surname, from Old English hris (“brushwood, shrubbery”).
* Also as an English surname, from a nickname through Middle English and Anglo-Norman from French ris (“smile, laughter”).
* Also as an occupational English surname, from the noun rice.
* As as German surname, Americanized from Reis (“shoot, twig”), related to the Old English word above. Compare Ries.
proper noun Rices · Rise · Wrice
- A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic]. 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.
- A former town in the Rice Valley, San Bernardino County, California.
- An unincorporated community in Cloud County, Kansas.
- A city in Benton County, Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in Putnam County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Wasco County, Oregon, named after Horace Rice.
- A minor city in Navarro County, Texas, named after William Marsh Rice.
- An unincorporated community in Prince Edward County, Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Stevens County, Washington, named after William B. Rice.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Rice Township.
RICE⁴
noun
- Acronym of rest, ice, compression, elevation (“a treatment method for soft-tissue injuries”).rest 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 […]
- Acronym of rest, immobilization, cold, elevation (“a treatment method for soft-tissue injuries”).rest
- Acronym of reaction, initial, change, equilibrium (“a tabular system for keeping track of changing concentrations in an equilibrium reaction”).reaction
- Acronym of reciprocating internal combustion engine.reciprocating internal combustion engine
