Definitions of Rice [ɪs]

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Definition of 'Rice'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) rice
the starchy seeds or grain of an annual marsh grass, Oryza sativa, cultivated in warm climates and used for food.

2. rice
the grass itself.

3. (v.t.) rice
to reduce to a form resembling rice:
to rice potatoes.

4. Rice
Elmer, 1892–1967, U.S. playwright.

Definition of 'Rice'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) rice
grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished

2. (noun) rice
annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper

3. (noun) Rice, Sir Tim Rice, Timothy Miles Bindon Rice
English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944)

4. (verb) Rice, Elmer Rice, Elmer Leopold Rice, Elmer Reizenstein
United States playwright (1892-1967)

5. (verb) rice
sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice
"rice the potatoes"

Definition of 'Rice'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) rice
small oval grains that can be eaten, or the plant on which they grow
a grain of rice; boiled rice

Definition of 'Rice'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Rice
a well-known cereal grass (Oryza sativa) and its seed. This plant is extensively cultivated in warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants. In America it grows chiefly on low, moist land, which can be overflowed

Translation of 'Rice'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a plant, grown in well-watered ground in tropical countries, whose seeds are used as food.
Afrikaans: rys	Arabic: أرُز	Bulgarian: ориз
Brazilian: arroz	Czech: rýže	German: der Reis
Danish: ris	Greek: ρύζι	Spanish: arroz
Estonian: riis	Farsi: برنج	Finnish: riisi
French: riz	Hebrew: אוֹרֵז	Hindi: चावल
Croatian: riža	Hungarian: rizs	Indonesian: padi
Icelandic: hrísgrjón	Italian: riso	Japanese: 稲
Korean: 벼	Lithuanian: ryžiai	Latvian: rīss
Malay: beras, nasi	Dutch: rijst	Norwegian: ris
Polish: ryż	Persian: برنج	Pashto: وريژې ، وريجې ، وريځې
Portuguese: arroz	Romanian: orez	Russian: рис
Slovak: ryža	Slovenian: riž	Serbian: pirinač
Swedish: ris	Thai: ต้นข้าว	Turkish: pirinç
Taiwanese: 稻子，稻米	Ukrainian: рис	Urdu: چاول
Vietnamese: cây lúa	Chinese: 稻米，大米
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