different between oat vs rice

English

Etymology

From Middle English ote, from Old English ?te, from Proto-Germanic *ait? (“swelling; gland; nodule”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eyd- (“to swell”). See English atter.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?t, IPA^(key): /??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /o?t/
• Homophone: ot-
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

oat (countable and uncountable, plural oats)

1. (uncountable) Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.

2. (countable) Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena.

3. (usually as plural) The seeds of the oat, a grain, harvested as a food crop.
   • 1991, Cornelia M. Parkinson, Cooking with Oats: Oat Bran, Oatmeal, and More, Storey Publishing (?ISBN), page 2:

     The point is, except in Scotland, people eat comparatively few oats. Scotland's another story, though you'll have to decide how seriously to take it. The way the story goes is that in eastern Scotland, the unmarried plowmen didn't eat anything but oats and milk, except for an occasional potato.

4. A simple musical pipe made of oat-straw.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• bran

Further reading

• oat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• AOT, ATO, OTA, Ota, TAO, Tao, To'a, tao, toa

Finnish

Noun

oat

1. Nominative plural form of oka.

Anagrams

• ota, tao

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?s/
• Rhymes: -a?s

Etymology 1

From Middle English rys, from Old French ris, from Old Italian riso, risi, from Byzantine Greek ????? (óruza), which see for more information.

Noun

rice (countable and uncountable, plural rices)

1. (uncountable) Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
2. (countable) A specific variety of this plant.
3. (uncountable) The seeds of this plant used as food.
4. (uncountable, slang, ethnic slur, humorous) The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.

Hyponyms

Holonyms

Coordinate terms

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

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

rice (third-person singular simple present rices, present participle ricing, simple past and past participle riced)

1. (transitive) To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes).
2. (intransitive) To harvest wild rice (Zizania sp.)
3. (rare) To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).
4. (computing, transitive) To customize the user interface of a computer system, e.g. a desktop environment.

Etymology 2

From Middle English ris, rys, from Old English hr?s (“branch; twig”), from Proto-Germanic *hr?s? (“bush; twig”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreys- (“to turn; bend; wind; move; shake”). Cognate with Scots reise, rice (“twigs; brushwood”), West Frisian riis, rys, Dutch rijs (“little branch; twig; osier; whip”), German Low German Ries, German Reis (“twig; sprig; shoot”), Swedish ris (“twigs; brush; rod”), Icelandic hrís.

Alternative forms

• rise

Noun

rice (plural rices)

1. (now chiefly, dialectal, Scotland, Ireland) A twig or stick.
2. (weaving, obsolete) A bobbin or spool.

Related terms

• rise-wood/risewood

Anagrams

• ERIC, Eric, cire, eric, icer

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?it?s?/, [?r?it?s?]

Verb

rice

1. third-person plural present of rica?

Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *r?kij?, from Proto-Celtic *r?giom (“kingdom”), derived from *r?xs (“king”). Cognate with Old Frisian r?ke, Old Saxon r?ki, Old Dutch r?ki, Old High German r?hhi, Old Norse ríki, Gothic ???????????????????? (reiki). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin r?x.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ri?.t??e/

Noun

r??e n

1. kingdom, empire

2. authority, dominion

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• r??en
• r?csian

Descendants

• Middle English: ryche, riche
  • English: riche

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *r?k?, from Proto-Germanic *r?kijaz, from *r?kij?.

Related to Old Frisian r?ke (West Frisian ryk), Old Saxon r?ki (Low German riek), Old Dutch r?ki (Dutch rijk), Old High German r?hhi (German reich), Old Norse ríkr (Swedish rik), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (reikeis).

Adjective

r??e

1. rich
2. powerful

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: rike
  • English: rich, riche
  • Scots: rik

See also

• r?csian

Old French

Adjective

rice m (oblique and nominative feminine singular rice)

1. (Picardy) Alternative form of riche

Spanish

Verb

rice

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of rizar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of rizar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of rizar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of rizar.