Rice
WordNet
noun
(1) Grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
(2) United States playwright (1892-1967)
(3) English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944)
(4) Annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
verb
(5) Sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice
"Rice the potatoes"
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Etymology
< < < < ; cf. Sanskrit .
Noun
- Cereal plants (Oryza sativa) of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
- The seeds of this plant used as food.
Verb
- to squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces
- to belittle a government emissary on behalf of a more powerful militaristic state