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Rice vs Grice - What's the difference?

rice | grice |

As nouns the difference between rice and grice

is that rice is cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food while grice is a pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of wild pig or boar native to Scotland, now extinct.

As verbs the difference between rice and grice

is that rice is to squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces while grice is to act as a trainspotter; to partake in the activity or hobby of trainspotting.

As a proper noun Rice

is {{surname|patronymic|from=Welsh}} derived from Welsh given name Rhys.

As a phrase RICE

is rest, ice, compression, and elevation. A common treatment method for soft tissue injuries.

rice

English

(wikipedia rice)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (uncountable) Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
  • A specific variety of this plant.
  • (uncountable) The seeds of this plant used as food.

    • Verb

  • To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces.
  • To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).
  • To belittle a government emissary or similar on behalf of a more powerful militaristic state.
  • To harvest wild rice Zinzania sp.

    • Derived terms

    * arborio rice * brown rice * golden rice * Indian rice * jollof rice * mealie rice * Patna rice * brewer's rice * broken rice * rice bowl * iron rice bowl * rice grass * rice leafhopper * rice paper * rice pudding * rice rat * rice weevil * ricebird * rice-paper plant * ricer * Spanish rice * sticky rice * white rice * wild rice

    Related terms

    * Menominee * rijsttafel * risotto

    See also

    * basmati * bhelpuri * California roll * dosa * gumbo * idli * idli * jambalaya * khir * mirin * mochi * nasi goreng * onigiri * pad thai * paella * pilaf, pilau * rangoli * risotto * sake * samshu * sushi

    Anagrams

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    References

    1000 English basic words ----

    grice

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of wild pig or boar native to Scotland, now extinct.
  • *1728 , Robert Lindsay, The history of Scotland, from 21 February, 1436. to March, 1565: in which are contained accounts of many remarkable passages altogether differing from our other historians, and many facts are related, either concealed by some, or omitted by others , publ. Mr. Baskett and Company, pg.146:
  • *:Further, there was of meats wheat bread, main-bread and ginge-bread with fleshes, beef, mutton, lamb, veal, venison, goose, grice , capon, coney, cran, swan, partridge, plover, duck, drake, brissel-cock and pawnies, black-cock and muir-fowl, cappercaillies;
  • *1789 , William Thomson, Mammuth: or, human nature displayed on a grand scale: in a tour with the tinkers, into the inland parts of Africa. By the man in the moon. In two volumes. publ. G. and T. Wilkie, pg.105:
  • *:Through a door to one of the galleries, left half open on purpose I was attracted to a dainty hot supper, consisting of stewed mushrooms and the fat paps and ears of very young pigs, or, as they call them, grice .
  • *2006 , "Extinct island pig spotted again," BBC News , 17 November 2006, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/6155172.stm]:
  • *:A model of the grice - which was the size of a large dog and had tusks - has been created after work by researchers and a taxidermist.

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (gric)
  • (UK, rail transport, slang) to act as a trainspotter; to partake in the activity or hobby of trainspotting.
  • *{{quote-newsgroup
    • , date = 29 March 1999 , first = Tony , last = Polson , title = Re: Do all UK rail staff get free unlimited Eurostar travel? , newsgroup = uk.railway , url = http://groups.google.com/group/uk.railway/msg/226e540c55c506ac , passage = Many people joined the railways because the 'carrot' of a staff pass was a considerable attraction, whether for family travel or to grice at extremely low cost. }}
  • *{{quote-magazine
    • , year=2005 , Month=August , volume=151 , issue=1252 , page=55 , magazine=The Railway Magazine , publisher=IPC Business Press citation , passage=We can also roganise photo charters, large group footplate courses and gricing holidays [...] }}
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year=2010 , author=Adam Jacot de Boinod , title=I Never Knew There Was a Word For It , chapter=Gricer's Daughter citation , isbn=9780141028392 , page= , pageurl=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ItYq7wYG634C&pg=PT518&dq=gricing&hl=en , passage=Trainspotters may be mocked by the outside world, but they don't take criticism lying down: the language of gricing is notable for its acidic descriptions of outsiders. }}
    Related terms
    * gricer

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A gree; a step.
    • (Ben Jonson)
    (Webster 1913) ----