noun
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Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
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A specific variety of this plant.
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The seeds of this plant used as food.
verb
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To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes).
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To harvest wild rice (Zizania sp.)
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To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).
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To customize the user interface of a computer system, e.g. a desktop environment.
Examples of rice in a Sentence
The rice and beans were bland until mixed together.
Then she used wild and long grain rice instead of stuffing.
Behind their villages the rice-fields usually spread, and rice, which is the staple food of the people, is the principal article of agriculture among them.
It smelled of chicken and rice and something sweet.
Next to Kris's whiskey Andre kept at the wet bar was Tamer's favorite vodka, Kiki's rice wine, and Erik's diet soda.
When she returned, Lana identified rice and beans.
The staple crop is rice, which is grown on 77 per cent.
The principal articles of its trade are rice and cotton, some sugar cane (nai shakar), flax (Katun) and hemp (Kanab) are also grown.
The river highways bring down inexhaustible supplies of rice to Moulmein, the chief town of the district, as also of the province of Tenasserim.
Rice is cultivated in low-lying, moist lands, where spring and summer temperatures are high.
The soil is admirably cultivated, the principal crops being wheat, rice, barley, maize, millet, lucerne, tobacco, vegetables and fruit.
Rice doesn't naturally have vitamin A. Enter transgenics.
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, I was an undergraduate at Rice University.
The chief seaport is Negapatam, and the principal export is rice to Ceylon.
The staple food of the Siamese is rice and fish.
Vegetation is prolific. Rice is grown by the natives, but the sago tree is of far greater importance to them.
It was fit that I should live on rice, mainly, who love so well the philosophy of India.
By the time Lana caught up, he'd had been lured into one of the buildings by a little girl with a handful of uncooked rice.
In the Yeyaman tract the chief crop is rice.
The other cereals, millet and panico sorgo (Panicum italicum), have lost much of their importance in consequence of the introduction of maize and rice.
Wheat and the date palm seem to have been indigenous, and the latter is still one of the chief poductions of the country, but in later years rice has taken the place of wheat as the staff of life.
There are several rice mills here.
These districts are pastoral, and the lower fertile lands are cultivated for sugar, cotton, maize, tobacco, rice, beans, and mandioca - sugar being the principal product.
The largest Indian-corn producing districts are nearly the same as those which produce the most cotton; oats and wheat are grown chiefly in the north-eastern quarter of the state, and rice in the south-western quarter.
Owing to its excellent harbour Baku is a chief depot for merchandise coming from Persia and Transcaspia - raw cotton, silk, rice, wine, fish, dried fruit and timber - and for Russian manufactured goods.
The country, mountainous in its southern portion, possesses extensive forests, fertile valleys, producing rice, wheat and other grains in abundance, and rich pasturages.
Rice is milled at New Orleans, Crowley, Abbeville, Gayden, Jennings and Lake Charles.
Can you guess how many lives these two varieties of rice have already saved?
In the irrigated fields the rice plants are first grown in nurseries, and are subsequently transplanted when they have reached a certain stage of development.
Rice is grown in such quantities as to procure for Formosa, in former days, the title of the " granary of China "; and the sweet potato, taro, millet, barley, wheat and maize are also cultivated.
Cotton, Indian corn, sweet potatoes, yams and rice are small crops.
East of the town rises Mayon, an active volcano, and the rich volcanic soil in this region produces hemp, rice and coco-nuts.
The principal crops are barley,',rice, wheat, other food-grains, pulse, sugar-cane and opium.
In this region the sandstone rocks are generally overlaid with heavy black soil formed from the decaying trap, which is principally devoted to the cultivation of the spring crops, wheat and grain, while rice and hill millets are sown in the lighter and more sandy soils.
In the latter are grown wheat and other spring crops, while the lighter kinds of rice and the hill millets are all that the poorer land can bear.
The eastern part of the Nagpur country and the Chhattisgarh plain, comprising the Mahanadi basin, form the great rice tract of the province, its heavy rainfall and hard yellowish soil rendering it excellently adapted for the growth of this crop.
In the autumn months malarial fever is prevalent in all thickly forested tracts and also in the rice country; but on the whole the province is considered to be healthy, and as the rains break fairly regularly in June and produce an immediate fall in the temperature, severe heat is only experienced for a period of from two to three months.
Broadly speaking, the northern districts of the province produce principally cold weather crops, such as wheat and grain, and the eastern ones principally rice.
Rice is an important crop in Damoh, Jubbulpore, Mandla, Seoni and Chanda, and is the chief staple of Bhandara, Balaghat, and the two eastern districts of Raipur and Bilaspur.
The chief exports are raw cotton, rice, wheat, oil-seeds, hides and lac. The exports of wheat are liable to extreme fluctuations, especially during famine periods.
The black soil of the district yields crops of which the principal are millet, other food-grains, pulse, rice, cotton and oil-seeds.
The imports are mainly white longcloth, grey shirting, rice, jowaree, dates and sugar.
Jowaree is displacing rice as the staple food of the Somali.
At the same time Musha Island, at the entrance to the Gulf of Tajura, was bought by the British " for ten bags of rice," Bab Island, in the same gulf, and Aubad Island, off Zaila, were also purchased, the object of the East India Company being to obtain a suitable place " for the harbour of their ships without any prohibition whatever."
The chief imports are textile fabrics, rice and petroleum.
This quarter has been pierced by several straight roads, one of which, crossing the Mahmudiya canal by the Pont Neuf, leads to Gabbari, the most westerly part of the city and an industrial and manufacturing region, possessing asphalt works and oil, rice and paper mills.
The principal products are millet, sesamum and sugar produced from toddy-palms in the riverain districts, which also grow rice, grain, peas and beans.
Considerable tracts have also been diked and reclaimed for cotton, sugar and especially for rice culture.
It is in and along the borders of this coast swamp region that most of the rice and much of the sugar cane 1 A sixth, less characteristic, might be included, viz.
The total value of all farm products in 1899 was $72,667,302, of which $59,276,092 was the value of the distinctive crops - cotton, sugar and rice.