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# rye

noun (rye, uncountable; rye bread, rye whiskey)

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

## Everyday

1. Rye is a kind of cereal grass grown on farms; its grain is used for flour, bread and animal food. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rye/#m1)
2. Rye bread is a dark, heavy bread made with rye flour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rye/#m2)
3. (US, Canada) Rye can mean rye whiskey, a strong alcoholic drink. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rye/#m3)
4. Rye is also the name of an old town in East Sussex, England. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rye/#m4)

### In the lessons

In science and farming lessons rye is a grain like wheat, oats and barley, which grows well in cold places with poor soil. In food lessons it is the grain in dark breads such as pumpernickel. Phrases: rye bread, rye flour, ryegrass, a field of rye.

### Examples

- Rye grows tall and golden in the summer fields. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rye/#x1)
- Grandad likes a ham sandwich on rye bread. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rye/#x2)
- Rye flour makes bread darker and heavier than wheat flour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rye/#x3)
- Farmers in cold northern countries often grow rye. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rye/#x4)
- Wheat, barley, oats and rye are all cereal grains. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rye/#x5)
- Ryegrass is used on football pitches. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rye/#x6)
- We visited the old cobbled streets of Rye on our trip. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rye/#x7)
- Then the dear sun glowed, and the rye grew ripe--like so much gold did it stand in the fields. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rye/#x8)

### Note

Uncountable: «some rye», not «a rye» (except «a rye» meaning a glass of whiskey in North America). Sounds exactly like «wry» (twisted, dryly funny) — a homophone. People with coeliac disease cannot eat rye because it contains gluten.

## On Mova

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