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# rye

«rye» in Mova's school dictionary: **a kind of cereal grass grown on farms; its grain is used…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) Rye is a kind of cereal grass grown on farms; its grain is used for flour, bread and animal food. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rye/#m4)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rye/#x1)
- Grandad likes a ham sandwich on rye bread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rye/#x2)
- Rye flour makes bread darker and heavier than wheat flour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rye/#x3)
- Farmers in cold northern countries often grow rye. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rye/#x4)
- Wheat, barley, oats and rye are all cereal grains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rye/#x5)
- Ryegrass is used on football pitches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rye/#x6)
- We visited the old cobbled streets of Rye on our trip. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### In the corpora

- [khlib means bread, often dark rye; it is respected, and grannies frown on dropping or throwing it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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