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# rice

noun (rice)

«rice» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Rice is a food made of small white or brown grains that grow on a plant in wet fields called paddies. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rice/#m1)
2. Rice is also the plant itself, a kind of grass. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rice/#m2)

### In the lessons

In maths: an amount measured in cups, bags, kilograms or pounds; sometimes its price per kilogram; servings per bag. In science and geography: rice grows in flooded fields, mostly in Asia; it is a staple food for billions of people. In the kitchen: boiling rice with an adult; rice swells as it absorbs water.

### Examples

- A bag holds 5 kg of rice. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rice/#x1)
- The recipe uses 2 cups of rice. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rice/#x2)
- Rice costs $3 per pound. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rice/#x3)
- They eat 1 kg of rice a week. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rice/#x4)
- Rice grows in flooded fields called paddies. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rice/#x5)
- Brown rice takes longer to cook than white rice. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rice/#x6)
- One cup of dry rice makes about three cups of cooked rice. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rice/#x7)
- We had chicken and rice for dinner. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rice/#x8)
- Rice is the main food for many people in Asia. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rice/#x9)
- I remember that we once exchanged a rice-dumpling for a persimmon-seed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rice/#x10)

### Note

An amount, not counted one by one; «per kg» or «a week» marks a rate. Trap: «2 bags of rice» counts bags, multiply by the weight of one bag for kilograms. Uncountable: «some rice», «a grain of rice», never «rices». Cooked rice weighs more than dry rice because it takes in water.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «rice» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rice/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«rice» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/rice.html) on Mova free.