Riser vs Ricer - What's the difference?
riser | ricer |
Someone or something which rises.
A platform or stand used to lift or elevate something.
The vertical part of a step on a staircase.
(archery) The main body of a bow.
A conduit or path between floors of a building for placement of telephone, networking, and other utility cables.
A Manx cat with an extremely short tail.
(US) A person, especially a Native American, who cultivates and harvests rice.
* 1967 , The New Yorker , Volume 43, Part 6,
* 1988 , Thomas Vennum, Wild Rice and the Ojibway People ,
* 1999' September 19, , ''Under the Wild Rice Moon'', ''Minneapolis Star Tribune'', reprinted in '''2002 , ''The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings ,
(cooking) A utensil used to extrude soft foods (such as, and especially, cooked potato) through holes about the diameter of a grain of rice.
* 2007 , Patricia Webster Stewart, Stuck in My Own Family Tree ,
* 2008 , Leanne Kitchen, The Greengrocer ,
* 2013 , Tara Mataraza Desmond, Choosing Sides: From Holidays to Every Day, 130 Delicious Recipes to Make the Meal ,
(US, slang, derogatory) An imported automobile from an Oriental country, deemed inferior because it is low-powered and/or cheap.
(US, slang, derogatory) A person who drives such an automobile.
(US, slang, derogatory) A person who modifies such an automobile using after-market parts to give it the appearance of being more powerful or sporty.
As a verb riser
is to laugh.As a noun ricer is
(us) a person, especially a native american, who cultivates and harvests rice.riser
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Noun
(en noun)- The choir stood on risers for the performance.
Antonyms
* (vertical part of a step) run, treadAnagrams
* ----ricer
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(Potato ricer)Noun
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- He opened the cashbox and counted out the money, and Martin handed it on to one of the ricers .
- "Where are you guys ricing tomorrow?" he said.
- "Down in the Refuge," the ricer with the money said.
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- In exchange for use of a buyer's boat, the ricers were to sell what they harvested exclusively to him.
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- There are also lots of ricers'. By two weeks into ricing season, Native Harvest bought from 30 or 40 ' ricers .
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- He cooked a roast, made applesauce with the ricer and used every size pan he could find to cook vegetables.
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- Ricers can also be used for mashing other root vegetables, as well as starchy ones like broad (fava) beans and peas.
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- Passing cooked chunks through a basic, inexpensive handheld ricer maximizes their texture, which is less starchy than their russet brethren, and makes a soft, dry pile that simply stirs into creamy, smooth mounds.
