📖 R — The English dictionary · page 41

rhythm — Everyday, meaning 1: Rhythm is a regular, repeated pattern of beats or sounds, as in music, poems or your heartbeat.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A rhythm is a regular pattern in life or nature, like day and night or the seasons.↗ Example: Clap the rhythm of the song with me.↗ · The drummer kept a steady rhythm.↗ · This poem has a bouncy rhythm.↗ · The doctor listened to the rhythm of my heart.↗ · Waves broke on the shore with a gentle rhythm.↗ · Going to bed at the same time every night keeps your body's rhythm healthy.↗ · Then the drumbeats subsided and faintly marked the rhythm of the singing.↗

rhythmic — Everyday, meaning 1: Rhythmic means having a regular repeated pattern of sounds or movements, like a beat.↗ Example: The drum made a rhythmic sound.↗ · We clapped in a rhythmic pattern.↗ · The waves made a rhythmic noise on the beach.↗ · Rhythmic gymnastics uses hoops and ribbons.↗ · The poem has a rhythmic beat.↗ · His breathing was slow and rhythmic.↗

rhythmically — Everyday, meaning 1: With a regular repeated beat or pattern.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In a way that has to do with rhythm in music or poetry.↗ Example: We clapped rhythmically to the song.↗ · The waves splashed rhythmically on the shore.↗ · Her heart beat rhythmically under the doctor's stethoscope.↗ · The rowers pulled rhythmically together.↗ · Breathe slowly and rhythmically to calm down.↗ · The poem is rhythmically strong, with a beat like a drum.↗

rib — Everyday, meaning 1: One of the curved bones around your chest that protect your heart and lungs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A piece of meat with a rib bone in it (spare ribs).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A curved strip that supports something, like the ribs of an umbrella, a boat or a leaf.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal) To tease someone in a friendly way.↗ Example: Your ribs protect your heart and lungs.↗ · Put your hands on your ribs and feel them move as you breathe.↗ · Humans have twelve pairs of ribs.↗ · He cracked a rib when he fell off his bike.↗ · We had barbecued ribs for dinner.↗ · The umbrella had a broken rib.↗ · My brother likes to rib me about my haircut.↗ · ‘Husband,’ said she, poking him in the ribs with her elbows, ‘wake up.↗ · And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from the man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man.↗ (Torah GEN.2.22, JPS 1917)↗ · And he made for it two golden rings under the crown thereof, upon the two ribs thereof, upon the two sides of it, for holders for staves wherewith to bear it.↗ (Torah EXO.37.27, JPS 1917)↗ · And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the place with flesh instead thereof.↗ (Torah GEN.2.21, JPS 1917)↗ · And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and it was said thus unto it: 'Arise, devour much flesh.'↗ (Writings DAN.7.5, JPS 1917)↗

riband — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use) A narrow strip of silk or cloth, used to tie hair or decorate clothes; a ribbon.↗ Example: She tied a green riband in her hair.↗ · Long silk ribands fluttered from their bonnets.↗ · The princess wore a blue riband round her waist.↗

ribbon — Everyday, meaning 1: A ribbon is a long, narrow strip of cloth used for tying, decorating or wrapping.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A ribbon can be a prize or badge: a blue ribbon for first place.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A ribbon is any long narrow strip: a ribbon of road.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Cut to ribbons» means cut into many pieces.↗ Example: She has a ribbon 3 meters long.↗ · Each bow needs 25 cm of ribbon.↗ · He cut the ribbon into 6 equal pieces.↗ · How much ribbon is left?↗ · She tied her hair with a red ribbon.↗ · We wrapped the present and tied it with ribbon.↗ · His pumpkin won a blue ribbon at the fair.↗ · The mayor cut the ribbon to open the new library.↗ · The road was a thin ribbon across the desert.↗ · It had pink ribbons to tie up its sleeves, so the Queen saw at once it was a girl.↗

ribwort — Everyday, meaning 1: A common wild plant with long narrow leaves that have strong lines (ribs) and a dark brown flower head on a tall stalk.↗ Example: Ribwort grows in the field behind the school.↗ · We played soldiers with ribwort stalks.↗ · The leaves of ribwort have long lines like ribs.↗ · Ribwort plantain is a food plant for some caterpillars.↗ · Count how many ribwort plants are in the quadrat.↗ · Ribwort flowers have tiny white stamens round the head.↗

rice — Everyday, meaning 1: Rice is a food made of small white or brown grains that grow on a plant in wet fields called paddies.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Rice is also the plant itself, a kind of grass.↗ Example: A bag holds 5 kg of rice.↗ · The recipe uses 2 cups of rice.↗ · Rice costs $3 per pound.↗ · They eat 1 kg of rice a week.↗ · Rice grows in flooded fields called paddies.↗ · Brown rice takes longer to cook than white rice.↗ · One cup of dry rice makes about three cups of cooked rice.↗ · We had chicken and rice for dinner.↗ · Rice is the main food for many people in Asia.↗ · I remember that we once exchanged a rice-dumpling for a persimmon-seed.↗

rich — Everyday, meaning 1: A rich person has a lot of money or valuable things.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Rich means having a lot of something good, like «rich in vitamins» or «a rich history».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Rich food has a lot of butter, cream, sugar or fat and fills you up quickly.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Rich soil is good for growing plants.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A rich colour or sound is deep and strong.↗ Example: The rich man lived in a huge house.↗ · Oranges are rich in vitamin C.↗ · This chocolate cake is very rich.↗ · The farm has rich, dark soil.↗ · Some people want to get rich quickly.↗ · The singer had a rich, deep voice.↗ · The museum shows the town's rich history.↗ · Robin Hood took from the rich and gave to the poor.↗ · But yet I grew not rich.↗ · And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.↗ (Torah GEN.13.2, JPS 1917)↗ · For all the riches which God hath taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's.↗ (Torah GEN.31.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And if a man have no one to redeem it, and he be waxen rich and find sufficient means to redeem it; (Torah LEV.25.26, JPS 1917)↗ · Both low and high, rich and poor together.↗ (Writings PSA.49.3, JPS 1917)↗ · The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds; (Prophets 2SA.12.2, JPS 1917)↗ · The poor useth entreaties; but the rich answereth impudently.↗ (Writings PRO.18.23, JPS 1917)↗

richly — Everyday, meaning 1: Richly means in a beautiful, expensive or lavish way, as richly dressed or richly decorated.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Richly means fully and well, as in «richly deserved».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Richly means in large amounts or with strong colour, flavour or detail.↗ Example: The queen was richly dressed in silk and jewels.↗ · The church was richly decorated for Christmas.↗ · Her prize was richly deserved after so much hard work.↗ · The cake was richly flavoured with chocolate and cherries.↗ · His kindness was richly rewarded.↗ · The book is richly illustrated with colourful pictures.↗ · Richly bound books, note-paper, and drawings, lay on the large table.↗ · But in the fifth year may ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you more richly the increase thereof: I am the LORD your God.↗ (Torah LEV.19.25, JPS 1917)↗ · and thou didst take thy richly woven garments and cover them, and didst set Mine oil and Mine incense before them.↗ (Prophets EZK.16.18, JPS 1917)↗ · She shall be led unto the king on richly woven stuff; the virgins her companions in her train being brought unto thee.↗ (Writings PSA.45.15, JPS 1917)↗ · I clothed thee also with richly woven work, and shod thee with sealskin, and I wound fine linen about thy head, and covered thee with silk.↗ (Prophets EZK.16.10, JPS 1917)↗

richness — Everyday, meaning 1: Being full of something good: rich colour, sound, taste or detail.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Being very full of goodness for growing, as in the richness of the soil.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (rare) Being wealthy; usually we say «wealth».↗ Example: The richness of the chocolate cake made me feel full.↗ · The richness of the soil helps the farmer's crops.↗ · The rainforest has a great richness of wildlife.↗ · We admired the richness of the colours in the painting.↗ · The richness of his voice filled the hall.↗ · Shakespeare added to the richness of English.↗ · There is no great richness of invention manifested in the stories which deal with the outwitting of evil spirits.↗ · They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be full of sap and richness; (Writings PSA.92.15, JPS 1917)↗

rick — Everyday, meaning 1: A big stack of hay, straw or corn built in a field or farmyard, often with a pointed thatched top to keep the rain out.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK, informal) To rick your neck or back means to twist or strain it a little, so it hurts.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (a name) Rick, a short form of Richard, Eric or Frederick.↗ Example: The farmer built a tall rick of hay.↗ · Mice made nests in the corn rick.↗ · The rick was thatched to keep out the rain.↗ · I ricked my neck sleeping on the train.↗ · Rick is my uncle's name.↗ · Long ago, ricks stood in every farmyard after harvest.↗ · When it grew dark he climbed up on the top of the fourth rick, from where he could see the whole field.↗

rickets — Everyday, meaning 1: A disease in children that makes bones soft and weak, so legs can bend, usually caused by not getting enough vitamin D, sunlight or calcium.↗ Example: Rickets makes children's bones bend.↗ · Victorian children in dark, smoky cities often had rickets.↗ · Sunlight helps your skin make vitamin D, which prevents rickets.↗ · Fish, eggs and fortified milk help stop rickets.↗ · The doctor said rickets is rare today but still happens.↗ · Cod liver oil was given to children to prevent rickets.↗

rickety — Everyday, meaning 1: Shaky and likely to break or fall apart; weak and loose.↗ Example: The rickety bridge creaked under us.↗ · The old chair was rickety.↗ · We climbed the rickety ladder to the loft.↗

rico — Everyday, meaning 1: Rico is usually part of the name Puerto Rico, an island in the Caribbean that belongs to the USA.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (a name) Rico is a boy's name, often short for Ricardo or Enrico.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (Spanish) In Spanish «rico» means rich or tasty; it is not an English word.↗ Example: Puerto Rico is an island in the Caribbean.↗ · My friend Rico plays the guitar.↗ · «Puerto Rico» means «rich port» in Spanish.↗ · People from Puerto Rico are Puerto Ricans.↗ · (Spanish) «¡Qué rico!» means «How tasty!».↗ · Hurricanes sometimes hit Puerto Rico.↗

rid — Everyday, meaning 1: To get rid of something is to throw it away, remove it or make it go away.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To rid a place of something is to clear it out.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To be rid of something is to be free of it at last.↗ Example: We got rid of our old sofa.↗ · Wash your hands to get rid of germs.↗ · How can I get rid of these hiccups?↗ · The cat rid the house of mice.↗ · I am glad to be rid of that cold.↗ · Let's get rid of the rubbish before guests come.↗ · The knight rid the village of the dragon.↗ · It's time to get rid of it--but how?"↗

riddance — Everyday, meaning 1: The act of getting rid of something unwanted; «good riddance» means glad to see the bad thing go.↗ Example: «Good riddance,» said the boy when the bully left.↗ · Getting rid of the old bed was a riddance.↗ · We were glad of the riddance of the broken fence.↗

riddle — Everyday, meaning 1: A riddle is a puzzle question that needs clever thinking to answer, often a play on words.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A riddle is something hard to understand, a mystery.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Riddled with means full of: «a wall riddled with holes».↗ Example: Solve the riddle: I am a number, and 5 more than me is 12.↗ · Each riddle in the book gives 3 clues.↗ · She solved 7 riddles in 10 minutes.↗ · Number riddle: I am between 20 and 30 and I am 4 × 6.↗ · Riddle: What has hands but cannot clap?↗ A clock!↗ · The troll asked a riddle before he let them cross.↗ · Why the old car stopped is a riddle to me.↗ · The old tree was riddled with holes.↗ · "Here's a riddle for you, Prince Ivan!↗ · And they could not in three days declare the riddle.↗ (Prophets JDG.14.14, JPS 1917)↗ · 'Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel, (Prophets EZK.17.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And he said unto them: If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.↗ (Prophets JDG.14.18, JPS 1917)↗

ride — Everyday, meaning 1: To ride is to sit on something and travel on it, like a bike, horse or bus.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A ride is a trip on it: a bus ride, a pony ride.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A ride is also a machine at a fair or theme park: the rides.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To give someone a ride (lift in the UK) is to take them in your car.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To ride on something can mean it depends on it: «Everything rides on this game».↗ Example: She rides her bike 4 miles to school.↗ · Each ride costs 3 tickets.↗ · He rode for 2 hours.↗ · How many rides can she take with 15 tickets?↗ · Always wear a helmet when you ride a bike.↗ · The roller coaster is the fastest ride at the park.↗ · Mum gave my friend a ride home.↗ · Never accept a ride from someone you don't know.↗ · Have you ever ridden a horse?↗ · They have still four miles to ride.↗ · And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him: 'Abrech'; and he set him over all the land of Egypt.↗ (Torah GEN.41.43, JPS 1917)↗ · He made him ride on the high places of the earth, and he did eat the fruitage of the field; and He made him to suck honey out of the crag, and oil out of the flinty rock; (Torah DEU.32.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou liftest me up to the wind, Thou causest me to ride upon it; and Thou dissolvest my substance.↗ (Writings JOB.30.22, JPS 1917)↗ · And he said: 'Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD.'↗ So they made him ride in his chariot.↗ (Prophets 2KI.10.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit on rich cloths, and ye that walk by the way, tell of it; (Prophets JDG.5.10, JPS 1917)↗