Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To cease living; become dead; expire.
- intransitive verb To cease existing, especially by degrees; fade.
- intransitive verb To experience an agony or suffering suggestive of that of death.
- intransitive verb Informal To desire something greatly.
- intransitive verb To cease operation; stop.
- intransitive verb To be destroyed, as in combat.
- intransitive verb To become indifferent.
- idiom (die hard) To take a long time in passing out of existence.
- idiom (die hard) To resist against overwhelming, hopeless odds.
- idiom (die on the vine) To fail, as from lack of support, especially at an early stage.
- idiom (to die for) Remarkable or highly desirable.
- noun A device used for cutting out, forming, or stamping material, especially.
- noun An engraved metal piece used for impressing a design onto a softer metal, as in coining money.
- noun One of several component pieces that are fitted into a diestock to cut threads on screws or bolts.
- noun A part on a machine that punches shaped holes in, cuts, or forms sheet metal, cardboard, or other stock.
- noun A metal block containing small conical holes through which plastic, metal, or other ductile material is extruded or drawn.
- noun Architecture The dado of a pedestal, especially when cube-shaped.
- noun A small cube marked on each side with from one to six dots, usually used in pairs in gambling and in various other games.
- noun A game of chance using dice.
- transitive verb To cut, form, or stamp with or as if with a die.
- idiom (load the dice) To make an outcome highly probable; predetermine a result.
- idiom (load the dice) To put another at a distinct disadvantage, as through prior maneuver.
- idiom (no dice) Of no use; futile.
- idiom (no dice) Used as a refusal to a request.
- idiom (the die is cast) The decision has been made and is irrevocable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hard-metal former or working-face for shaping, cutting, or impressing: usually used in pairs. See defs. 5 and 6.
- To mold or form with a die or with dies.
- noun A small cube marked on its faces with spots numbering from one to six, used in gaming by being thrown from a box or the hand, the chance being decided by the highest number of spots turned up, and in several Other ways.
- noun Hazard; chance.
- noun Any small cube or square block.
- noun In architecture, the cubical part of a pedestal between its base and cornice. See cut under
dado . - noun An engraved stamp used for stamping a design, etc., in some softer material, as in coining money.
- noun One of two or more pieces of hardened steel forming together a female screw for cutting the threads of screws.
- noun In metal-working, a bed-plate or disk having an opening in the center, used in a punching-machine to support the metal from which any piece is punched.
- noun A knife by which blanks of any desired shape and size are cut out, as in the sole-shaped cutting-dies used in shoe-factories.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
dye . - To cease to live; lose or part with life; expire; suffer death; perish: said of sentient beings, and used absolutely (as, all must die), or with of, by, or from, to express the cause of death, or with for to express the object or occasion of dying: as, to
die of smallpox, or by violence; to die for one's country. - To lose vital power or action; become devitalized or dead: said of plants or parts of plants, as a decayed tree or a withered limb or stem: as, certain plants die down to the ground annually, while their roots live.
- To sink; faint.
- To come to an end or come to nothing; cease, or cease to exist; perish; be lost.
- To come to an end gradually; become extinct by degrees; vanish by or as if by death: usually with away, out, or down.
- To become less and less subject to, or cease to be under the power or influence of, a thing: followed by to or unto: as, to
die to sin. - To languish with affection or love.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Above the tide of melody, the voice of the evangelist rose in a scream, appalling in its agony -- "Oh, men and women, why _will_ you die, _why_ will you _die_?"
Fran 1913
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It is a dream she has lived on so long that it has become part of herself, and it is my impression that if anything happened to break her belief in it she would die, -- yes, _die!
Vagabondia 1884 Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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But now you won't hate 'er no mo', boy; an 'ef you die fus' -- some time, you know, baby, little boys _does die_ -- an 'ef you go fus', I'll teck good keer o 'yo' sheer in 'er; an' ef I go, you mus 'look out fur my sheer.
Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886
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The arrogant pretension that men must die _secundum artem_ has been adjourned -- _sine die_.
Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O Various 1870
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Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it remains a single unproductive corn of wheat; but if it _die_, it germinates and brings forth much fruit.
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You had far better all die -- _die immediately_, than live slaves, and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity.
Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life And Also Garnet's Address to the Slaves of the United States of America David Walker 1807
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vanishedone commented on the word die
I love the way this is tagged 'coin collecting'. You can't take it with you, you know...
November 9, 2008
mcritz commented on the word die
@VanishedOne there's only one way to pay Charon as your cross the river Stix.
November 9, 2008
reesetee commented on the word die
That's my tag--goes w/ my coin list. I did like the juxtaposition. :-)
November 10, 2008