rice

noun8

1. •
   small white or brown seeds from a plant grown in wet fields, which people cook and eat

   • On the festival day, rice is cooked together with this rice knot above. — 2010
2. •
   The seeds of wild rice, used as food.
3. •
   Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.

   • Rice is a tropical plant; yet Carolina and Georgia grow the finest in the world; heavier grained, better filled, and more merchantable, than any imported into Europe from the Indies. — 1831
4. •
   A specific variety of this plant.

   • The rices of Kashmír are infinite in variety. In one tahsíl I have found fifty-three varieties. — 1895
5. •
   (slang, offensive) The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.
6. •
   (slang) An instance of customization of a user interface.

   • This is my first rice!
7. •
   (dialect, Ireland) A twig or stick.

   • Another form of dead-hedge is the stake-and-rice, and it is formed of the branches of forest trees; and where these are plentiful and thorns scarce, it is an economical dead fence. — 1851
8. •
   (no longer used) A bobbin or spool.

   • The hanks are placed upon light, collapsible hexagon reels termed rices, which are easily lifted out of their position for the reception of the hank. — 1895

verb4

1. •
   To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes).

   • Riced Potato. Have a flat dish and the colander hot. With a spoon, rub mashed potato through the colander on to the hot dish. — 1881
2. •
   To customize the user interface of a computer system, e.g. a desktop environment. (derived from rice out)
3. •
   To harvest wild rice (Zizania spp.)

   • In northern Minnesota the whites have invented the verb "to rice," and speak of "ricing," i. e., harvesting the crop of wild rice. — 1894
4. •
   (rare) To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).

   • So far as I can make out, the idiotic function of “ricing” English brides and bridegrooms is not twenty years old. — 1886

noun4

1. •
   Acronym of rest, ice, compression, elevation (“a treatment method for soft-tissue injuries”).

   • The RICE method is a simple self-care technique that aims to reduce swelling, ease pain, and speed up healing. — 2024
2. •
   Acronym of rest, immobilization, cold, elevation (“a treatment method for soft-tissue injuries”).
3. •
   Acronym of reaction, initial, change, equilibrium (“a tabular system for keeping track of changing concentrations in an equilibrium reaction”).
4. •
   Acronym of reciprocating internal combustion engine.