different between ricing vs riming

English

Verb

ricing

1. present participle of rice

Noun

ricing (uncountable)

1. (soap-making) (Development of) undesirable, hard white granules in soap.
   • 2012, Alicia Grosso, The Everything Soapmaking Book (Simon and Schuster, ?ISBN):

     Fragrances can mutate; seizure and ricing are more common; and the soap batter traces rapidly.

   • 2016, Anne-Marie Faiola, Pure Soapmaking (Storey Publishing, ?ISBN), page 14:

     Sometimes accompanied by acceleration, ricing is different in that it creates small individual clumps of soap that look like rice granules.

See also

• figging (dated)

Anagrams

• IRCing

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: r??m?ng, IPA^(key): /????m??/
• (US) enPR: r??m?ng, IPA^(key): /??a?m??/

Etymology 1

Regular conjugation (rim(e) + -ing).

Verb

riming

1. present participle of rime

Etymology 2

First attested in 1822; formed as rime (“cover with rime or hoar frost”) +? -ing (suffix forming present participial adjectives).

Adjective

riming (not comparable)

1. (rare) That rimes (i.e., covers with rime or hoar frost) something.

References

“riming, adj.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (third edition, June 2010)

Etymology 3

First attested in 1873; formed as rime (“dye (wool or yarn) by steeping in water with alder twigs”) +? -ing (suffix forming abstract nouns of action).

Noun

riming (uncountable)

1. (Irish English, now rare, done to wool or yarn) The action or process of dying red-brown by steeping in water with alder twigs.

References

“riming, n.¹” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (third edition, June 2010)

Etymology 4

First attested in 1948; formed as rime (“cover with rime or hoar frost”) +? -ing (suffix forming abstract nouns of action).

Noun

riming (uncountable)

1. The process of riming (i.e., covering with rime or hoar frost).

References

“riming, n.²” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (third edition, June 2010)

Anagrams

• MRIing, miring