Synonyms for rice
raɪsrice

Princeton's WordNet

1. ricenoun

   grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished

2. ricenoun

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

3. Rice, Sir Tim Rice, Timothy Miles Bindon Ricenoun

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

4. Rice, Elmer Rice, Elmer Leopold Rice, Elmer Reizensteinverb

   United States playwright (1892-1967)

5. riceverb

   sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice

   "rice the potatoes"

Matched Categories

1. • Cereal Grass
   • Cooking
   • Grain
   • Lyricist
   • Sieve
   • Starches

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:3.0 / 2 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "rice":

   rais, reis, reyes, ris, paddy, metres, cedar, laugh

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How to use rice in a sentence?

1. Richard Richter Greg Ponciano:

   We’re right in the middle of rice country. The way the rice business goes is how the economy goes, three years of drought here has become the straw that broke the camel’s back.

2. Dustin Lukasiewicz:

   We were able to deliver some rice, potatoes, and tarps to smaller villages just east of Kathmandu, areas that are more difficult to get to via any sort of ground transportation.

3. Margaret Karagas:

   We were surprised by the percentage of infants who ate rice snacks and that one of these products contained levels above the current E.U. standard of 100 parts per billion, this was a strawberry flavored puffed rice snack, which contained 40 percent inorganic arsenic, with the first two ingredients listed as brown and white rice flour.

4. Akira Amari:

   Negotiations can't work if one side makes no concessions, but there are various domestic restrictions, rice, in particular, is produced across Japan, so we are carefully negotiating while feeling a domestic sense of crisis. I can promise it won't result in anything shocking.

5. Tiffany Crutcher:

   I saw Trayvon Martin. I saw Mike Brown. I saw Philando Castile. I saw Tamir Rice, but never in a thousand years... would we have thought that we would be on their side of it. And my brother now, according to social media, is another hash tag.