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RICE
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I. (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:
United States playwright (1892-1967)
Synonyms:
Elmer Leopold Rice; Elmer Reizenstein; Elmer Rice; Rice
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)
Sense 3
Meaning:
English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944)
Synonyms:
Rice; Sir Tim Rice; Timothy Miles Bindon Rice
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
lyricist; lyrist (a person who writes the words for songs)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
Classified under:
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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice
Example:
rice the potatoes
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
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:
A substance found in many foods that come from plants, including corn, wheat, rice, and soybeans, and in large amounts in cereals and legumes.
(Inositol hexaphosphate, NCI Dictionary)
Alpha-lipoic acid is made by the body and can be found in foods such as organ meats, spinach, broccoli, peas, brussel sprouts, and rice bran.
(Alpha-lipoic acid, NCI Dictionary)
The epidemic form is found primarily in areas in which white (polished) rice is the staple food, as in Japan, China, the Philippines, India, and other countries of southeast Asia.
(Beri Beri, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
It is found in beans, peas, brown rice, wheat bran and nuts.
(Inositol, NCI Dictionary)
Previous attempts at making filters out of materials such as groundnut shell, mango leaf, rice husk and sugarcane bagasse, met with limited success.
(Watermelon rind a cheap filter for arsenic in groundwater, SciDev.Net)
Lindsey and Jonathan Ajo-Franklin, a geophysicist at Rice University in Houston, led the experiment with the assistance of Craig Dawe of MBARI, which owns the fiber-optic cable.
(Underwater telecom cables make superb seismic network, National Science Foundation)
Spiders and rice pudding.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Using data from two sets of comprehensive climate model simulations, Rice scientists Ebrahim Nabizadeh and Pedram Hassanzadeh and colleagues found that the area of blocking events in the Northern Hemisphere will increase by as much as 17% due to human-caused climate change.
(Stalled weather patterns will get bigger due to climate change, National Science Foundation)
The new test can identify the presence of as little as 10 parts per billion (equivalent to 10 cents out of $10 million) of amanitin in about 10 minutes from a rice grain size sample of a mushroom or in the urine of someone who has eaten a poisonous amanitin-containing mushroom.
(New Test Identifies Poisonous Mushrooms, Agricultural Research Service)
She had not advanced many yards from Mrs. Goddard's door, when she was met by Mr. Elton himself, evidently coming towards it, and as they walked on slowly together in conversation about the invalid—of whom he, on the rumour of considerable illness, had been going to inquire, that he might carry some report of her to Hartfield—they were overtaken by Mr. John Knightley returning from the daily visit to Donwell, with his two eldest boys, whose healthy, glowing faces shewed all the benefit of a country run, and seemed to ensure a quick despatch of the roast mutton and rice pudding they were hastening home for.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
