Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun rice

4 senses of rice

Sense 1
rice -- (grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished)
       => grain, food grain, cereal -- (foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses)
       => starches -- (foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread))

Sense 2
rice -- (annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper)
       => cereal, cereal grass -- (grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet)

Sense 3
Rice, Sir Tim Rice, Timothy Miles Bindon Rice -- (English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944))
       INSTANCE OF=> lyricist, lyrist -- (a person who writes the words for songs)

Sense 4
Rice, Elmer Rice, Elmer Leopold Rice, Elmer Reizenstein -- (United States playwright (1892-1967))
       INSTANCE OF=> dramatist, playwright -- (someone who writes plays)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb rice

1 sense of rice

Sense 1
rice -- (sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice; "rice the potatoes")
       => sift, sieve, strain -- (separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour")