rice
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 →
2) Rice is also the plant itself, a kind of grass. tree →
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 →
- The recipe uses 2 cups of rice. tree →
- Rice costs $3 per pound. tree →
- They eat 1 kg of rice a week. tree →
- Rice grows in flooded fields called paddies. tree →
- Brown rice takes longer to cook than white rice. tree →
- One cup of dry rice makes about three cups of cooked rice. tree →
- We had chicken and rice for dinner. tree →
- Rice is the main food for many people in Asia. tree →
- I remember that we once exchanged a rice-dumpling for a persimmon-seed. tree →
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.
- Rice grows in flooded fields called paddies in warm countries, and more than half of all people eat rice every day.
- A microchip is about the size of a grain of rice and is placed under the skin between the shoulder blades.
- All real tea, green or black, comes from one plant, and rice grows in flooded fields that drown weeds.
- On mountains in Yunnan people carved rice terraces like giant steps, and in Zhejiang farmers keep fish among the rice.
Trees and pragmatics
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