different between mustard vs rye

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English mustard, from Old French moustarde (French: moutarde), from moust (“must”), from Latin mustum. Compare Saterland Frisian Muster (“mustard”), Dutch mosterd (“mustard”), German Low German Musterd (“mustard”), Icelandic mustarður (“mustard”). Displaced Middle English senep, from Old English senep. Doublet of mostarda.

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?s?-t?rd, IPA^(key): /?m?st?rd/
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): [?mas.t?d]
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [?m?s.t?d]
  • (Northern England) IPA^(key): [?m?s.t?d]
  • (US) IPA^(key): [?m?s.t?d]
• Hyphenation: mus?tard
• Homophone: mustered

Noun

mustard (usually uncountable, plural mustards)

1. A plant of certain species of the genus Brassica, or of related genera (especially Sinapis alba, in the family Brassicaceae, with yellow flowers, and linear seed pods).
2. Powder or paste made from seeds of the mustard plant, and used as a condiment or a spice.

3. The leaves of the mustard plant, used as a salad.

4. Dark yellow colour, the colour of mustard.

5. One of a family of vesicants containing one or more 2-chloroethyl (C₂H₄Cl) groups, commonly used in chemical warfare and cancer chemotherapy.
6. The tomalley of a crab, which resembles the condiment.

Synonyms

• senvy (obsolete)

Hyponyms

(vesicant containing 2-chloroethyl groups):

• mustard gas
• nitrogen mustard

Translations

Adjective

mustard (not comparable)

1. Of a dark yellow colour.
   • 2007, Cincinnati Magazine (page 81)

     Everything about her year-old restaurant, from the minimalist menu (about a dozen items) with refreshingly drivel-free descriptions to the decor (unadorned warm mustard walls, unclothed bistro tables), reflects her love of bringing people to the table for good, simple food that's not eclipsed by bells and whistles.

Translations

Derived terms

Related terms

• must (grape juice)

See also

Anagrams

• durmast, murtads

Middle English

Alternative forms

• mostard, mostarde, mustart, mustarde, musterd

Etymology

From Old French moustarde.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mustard(?)/, /?must?rd(?)/

Noun

mustard

1. A mustard plant; the plant where mustard seeds originate.
2. The seeds of this plant used as a spice or flavouring.
3. Mustard; a condiment made from mustard seeds.

Descendants

• English: mustard
• Scots: mustard, mustart

References

• “mustard, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-11.

English

Etymology

From Middle English rie, reighe, from Old English ry?e, from Proto-West Germanic *rugi, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *Hrug?ís.

Germanic cognates include Dutch and West Frisian rogge, Low German Rogg, German Roggen, Old Norse rugr (Danish rug, Swedish råg); non-Germanic cognates include Russian ???? (rož?) and Latvian rudzi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Homophone: wry

Noun

rye (countable and uncountable, plural ryes)

1. A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder. [from 8th c.]
2. The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained. [from 14th c.]
3. Rye bread. [from 19th c.]
4. (US, Canada) Rye whiskey. [from 19th c.]
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 159:

     I bought a pint of rye at the liquor counter and carried it over to the stools and set it down on the cracked marble counter.

5. Caraway (from the mistaken assumption that the whole seeds, often used to season rye bread, are the rye itself)
6. Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium.
7. A disease of hawks.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ainsworth to this entry?)

Coordinate terms

• (Cereals) cereal; barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, teff, triticale, wheat

Derived terms

• ryegrass

Translations

Anagrams

• -ery, -yer, Rey, Yer, e'ry, eyr, yer, yre

Middle English

Alternative forms

• rie, reye, reyghe, reyhe, ruye

Etymology

From Old English ryge, from Proto-West Germanic *rugi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ri?(?)/

Noun

rye (plural ryes)

1. rye (Secale cereale)

Descendants

• English: rye
• Scots: ry
• Yola: ree

References

• “r?e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

rye f (definite singular rya, indefinite plural ryer, definite plural ryene)

1. rya

Related terms

• ru

References

• “rye” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• yre