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rice

/ɹaɪs/noun, verb1 syllable

Rice means: United States playwright (1892-1967).

Synonyms for rice5

noun, as in United States playwright (1892-1967)

Elmer Rice, Elmer Leopold Rice, Elmer Reizenstein

noun, as in English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944)

Sir Tim Rice, Timothy Miles Bindon Rice

What does rice mean?5

noun

1

United States playwright (1892-1967)

2

English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944)

3

grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished

4

annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper

verb

1

sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice“rice the potatoes”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with rice?18

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Rice in a sentence

  • Needless to say, dealing in rice is a declining industry.Dejo
  • When he was young, he was poor and had to live on rice gruel.FeuDRenais
  • Because of the flood, it was a bad rice-harvest.sctld
  • Mum, the rice crackers have gotten damp and they're not nice anymore.Chrikaru
  • Mum, the rice crackers have gone soft and they don't taste good anymore.Chrikaru
  • I'd like mapo tofu, and two bowls of rice.eastasiastudent
  • If you don't stir the rice, it will burn.marcelostockle
  • If you add sauce to curry rice, the taste will be more intense.Christophe

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of rice

as a noun

plural
rices

as a verb

third-person singular
rices
present participle
ricing
past participle
riced
past tense
riced