What does RYE mean?

Definitions for RYE
raɪrye

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. ryenoun

    the seed of the cereal grass

  2. rye, Secale cerealenoun

    hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement

  3. rye, rye whiskey, rye whiskynoun

    whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt

Wiktionary

  1. ryenoun

    A grass, Secale cereale, or its grains used for food and fodder. Scientific name: Secale cereale.

  2. ryenoun

    Rye whisky.

  3. ryenoun

    Rye bread.

  4. Etymology: From ryge, from rugiz. Cognates include Germanic Old Norse rugr (Danish rug, Swedish råg), German Roggen and from non-Germanic Indo-European Russian рожь and Old Prussian rugis.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Ryenoun

    Etymology: ryge , Saxon.

    Between the acres of the rye,
    These pretty country folks would lye. William Shakespeare.

    Rye is more acrid, laxative, and less nourishing than wheat. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.

Wikipedia

  1. RYE

    Rye is a cereal crop.

ChatGPT

  1. rye

    Rye is a type of grass that is grown extensively as a grain and forage crop. Its grain is used for making rye bread, rye beer, crispbread, some whiskeys, some vodkas, and animal fodder. It can also serve as a pasture plant. It is a member of the wheat tribe and is closely related to barley and wheat. Rye grain is highly nutritious and can be used in a diversity of culinary applications.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Ryenoun

    a grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass (Secale cereale), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. Rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff used by man

  2. Ryenoun

    a disease in a hawk

  3. Etymology: [OE. rie, reie, AS. ryge; akin to Icel. rugr, Sw. rg, Dan. rug, D. rogge, OHG. rocco, roggo, G. rocken, roggen, Lith. rugei, Russ. roje, and perh. to Gr. 'o`ryza rice. Cf. Rice.]

Wikidata

  1. Rye

    Rye is a grass grown extensively as a grain and as a forage crop. It is a member of the wheat tribe and is closely related to barley and wheat. Rye grain is used for flour, rye bread, rye beer, some whiskeys, some vodkas, and animal fodder. It can also be eaten whole, either as boiled rye berries, or by being rolled, similar to rolled oats. Rye is a cereal grain and should not be confused with ryegrass, which is used for lawns, pasture, and hay for livestock.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Rye

    rī, n. a genus of grasses allied to wheat and barley, one species of which is cultivated as a grain: (her.) a bearing representing a stalk of grain with the ear bending down.—ns. Rye′-grass, a variety of grass cultivated for pasture and fodder; Rye′-moth, an insect whose larva feeds on stems of rye; Rye′-wolf, an evil creature of German folklore lurking in the rye-fields; Rye′-worm, an insect which devours the stems of rye. [A.S. ryge; Ice. rúgr, Ger. rocken, roggen.]

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Rye

    an interesting old port in the SE. corner of Sussex, situated on rising ground flanked by two streams, 63 m. SE. from London, one of the Cinque Ports (q. v.); the retiral of the sea has left it now 2 m. inland; has a fine Norman and Early English church.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. RYE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Rye is ranked #8128 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Rye surname appeared 4,079 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Rye.

    90.3% or 3,687 total occurrences were White.
    2.6% or 107 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.5% or 105 total occurrences were Black.
    1.6% or 68 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.6% or 66 total occurrences were Asian.
    1.1% or 46 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of RYE in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of RYE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of RYE in a Sentence

  1. Jerry Seinfeld:

    One was the' The Rye,' because we got to shoot that at Paramount Studios in LA which was the first time that we thought, ‘ wow this is almost like a real TV show ’, we had n’t felt like a real TV show, the early years of the TV show were not successful... We felt like we were a weird little orphan show. So that was a big deal for us.

  2. Allen Katz:

    There’s still a great story to be told about rye whiskey as not only a resolute American spirit, but also a really interesting agricultural and cocktail context for New York.

  3. Allen Katz:

    We’ve grown over the last several years to our largest output, which was between 900 to 1,000 barrels of rye in one year.

  4. Ellen Gallagher:

    In Westchester County — towns like Larchmont, Rye, Mamaroneck — the taxes are crazy high, younger people can't afford those taxes and are looking [ in Connecticut ] where you get more house and pay less taxes, but you're further from New York.

  5. Michael Veach:

    Brandy is the original craft distilling in America. The first brandy was made eight years before the first rye whiskey and well before bourbon.

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