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# rice

«rice» in Mova's school dictionary: **a food made of small white or brown grains that grow on a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (rice)

### meaning for a pupil

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

2) Rice is also the plant itself, a kind of grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rice/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rice/#x1)
- The recipe uses 2 cups of rice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rice/#x2)
- Rice costs $3 per pound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rice/#x3)
- They eat 1 kg of rice a week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rice/#x4)
- Rice grows in flooded fields called paddies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rice/#x5)
- Brown rice takes longer to cook than white rice. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rice/#x7)
- We had chicken and rice for dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rice/#x8)
- Rice is the main food for many people in Asia. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### In the corpora

- [The smallest bone, the stirrup in your ear, is smaller than a grain of rice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/263-human-body-deeper-bones-muscles-and-skin/7/)
- [Rice grows in flooded fields called paddies in warm countries, and more than half of all people eat rice every day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds/13/)
- [A microchip is about the size of a grain of rice and is placed under the skin between the shoulder blades.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/5/)
- [All real tea, green or black, comes from one plant, and rice grows in flooded fields that drown weeds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies/6/)
- [On mountains in Yunnan people carved rice terraces like giant steps, and in Zhejiang farmers keep fish among the rice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rice» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rice/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.