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Ricked vs Riched - What's the difference?

ricked | riched |

As verbs the difference between ricked and riched

is that ricked is past tense of rick while riched is past tense of rich.

ricked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (rick)

    • Anagrams

    * *

    rick

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) , Icelandic (m).

    Alternative forms

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A stack, stook or pile of grain, straw, hay etc., especially as protected with thatching.
  • *(George Eliot) (1819-1880)
  • *:There is a remnant still of last year's golden clusters of beehive ricks , rising at intervals beyond the hedgerows;.
  • *
  • *:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
  • (lb) A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four by eight feet.
    • Derived terms
    * rickburner

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) wricke

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • slightly sprain or strain the neck, back, ankle etc.

    • Etymology 3

    Abbreviated form from recruit

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (military, pejorative, and, demeaning) A brand new (naive ) boot camp inductee.
    • No turning back now rick, you are property of the US government, no longer protected by the bill of rights; you follow the UCMJ now.

    riched

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (rich)

    • rich

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.
  • *, chapter=7
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. […]”}}
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17, author=(George Monbiot)
    • , volume=188, issue=23, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Money just makes the rich suffer , passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]}}
  • Having a fatty, intense flavour.
    • a rich''' dish; '''rich''' cream or soup; '''rich pastry
  • * Baker
    • Sauces and rich spices are fetched from India.
  • Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.
    • a rich''' treasury; a '''rich''' entertainment; a '''rich crop
  • * Rowe
    • If life be short, it shall be glorious; / Each minute shall be rich in some great action.
  • * Milton
    • The gorgeous East with richest hand / Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-27, volume=408, issue=8846, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Battle of the bulge , passage=For countries with rich culinary traditions that date back to the Aztecs and Incas, Mexico and Peru have developed quite a taste for modern food fashions. Mexicans quaff more fizzy drinks than any other country; Peru has the highest density of fast-food joints in the world.}}
  • Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful.
    • rich''' soil or land; a '''rich mine
  • Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly.
    • a rich''' dress; '''rich''' silk or fur; '''rich presents
  • * Milton
    • rich and various gems
  • Not faint or delicate; vivid.
    • a rich red colour
  • (informal, dated) Very amusing.
    • The scene was a rich one.
    a rich incident or character
    (Thackeray)
  • (informal) Ridiculous, absurd.
  • (computing) Elaborate]], having complex [[format, formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.
  • * 2002 , David Austerberry, The Technology of Video and Audio Streaming
    • A skilled multimedia developer will have no problems adding interactive video and audio into existing rich media web pages.
  • * 2003 , Patricia Cardoza, Patricia DiGiacomo, Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
    • Some rich text email messages contain formatting information that's best viewed with Microsoft Word.
  • * 2008 , Aaron Newman, Adam Steinberg, Jeremy Thomas, Enterprise 2.0 Implementation
    • But what did matter was that the new web platform provided a rich experience.
  • Of a fuel-air mixture, having less air than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; less air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.

    • Synonyms

    * (wealthy) wealthy, well off, see also

    Antonyms

    * (wealthy) poor; see also * (plentiful) needy * (computing) plain, unformatted, vanilla * (fuel-air mixture) lean

    Derived terms

    * filthy rich * get-rich-quick * hood rich * neutron-rich * nickel-rich * too rich for one's blood * rags to riches * richdom * riches * richly * rich media * richness * rich tea biscuit * rich text * strike it rich * superrich

    Related terms

    * nouveau riche

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To enrich.
    • (Gower)

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