米こめ

noun

rice; husked rice grains

Refers to rice as grains, especially uncooked or as an agricultural product. Cooked rice is more often ご飯.

• 米こめを研といでから炊すい飯はん器きに入いれる。

  Rinse the rice and then put it in the rice cooker.

• 新にい潟がた産さんの米こめを買かった。

  I bought rice from Niigata.

noun

staple; essential product; necessity

Metaphorical use: something fundamental or indispensable to an industry, society, or activity, like rice as a staple food.

• 半はん導どう体たいは現げん代だいの産さん業ぎょうの米こめと呼よばれることがある。

  Semiconductors are sometimes called the staple of modern industry.

noun

online comment

Only with reading コメ

Internet slang, usually written コメ, referring to a comment posted on a video, article, stream, or social-media post.

See also: コメ

• その動どう画がに面おも白しろいコメがたくさん付ついた。

  That video got a lot of funny comments.

• 配はい信しん中ちゅうはコメを全ぜん部ぶ読よむのは難むずかしい。

  During a livestream, it is hard to read every comment.