Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Small cubes of food.
- intransitive verb To play or gamble with dice.
- intransitive verb To win or lose (money) by gambling with dice.
- intransitive verb To cut (food) into small cubes.
- intransitive verb To decorate with dicelike figures.
from The Century Dictionary.
- The plural of
die . - A game with dice. See
die . - To play with dice.
- To cut into cubes or squares.
- To sew a kind of waved pattern on (the border of a garment).
- To decorate with a pattern (especially a woven one) resembling cubes seen diagonally—that is, with hexagons so shaded by the run of the thread as to resemble cubes so placed; less properly, to weave with a pattern of squares or lozenges touching one another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See
die , n. - noun a kind of coal easily splitting into cubical fragments.
- intransitive verb To play games with dice.
- transitive verb (Cooking) To cut into small cubes.
- transitive verb To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
die . - noun uncountable Gaming with one or more dice.
- noun countable A
die . - noun this sense?) (
proscribed by some) An alternative singular ofdie , for such meanings of die as have the plural dice. - noun uncountable, cooking That which has been diced.
- verb intransitive To play dice.
- verb transitive To
cut into smallcubes . - verb transitive To
ornament withsquares ,diamonds , orcubes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb play dice
- noun a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers
- verb cut into cubes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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‘Cold calling’ victims to effectively ask them if they found the whole experience of being a victim pleasant means the dice is always loaded towards a negative response, regardless of how good our service was.
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** "The best way to throw dice, is to throw them out." - advice written by an author who lived between 1835 and 1910
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The use of different dice is confusing at first but any kind of gamer gets it down pretty soon.
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Rolling more city dice is good for more resources, but it increases your chances for getting really bad results (more than two skulls) as well.
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My eyeballs just rolled on the floor like some dice of fate like some dice from a poker game being played in a sand castle
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** "The best way to throw dice, is to throw them out." - advice written by an author who lived between 1835 and 1910
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With respect to the larger culture Einstein's view of God and dice is a colorful reference to a non-scientific concept to make a philosophical scientific point even if it was subsequently shown erroneous.
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Patronage and rolling the dice is replaced by good old democracy.
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No basement geek would be worth his weight in dice without the orange glow on his fingers.
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The god he referred to when he said "God does not play dice" is the monist god: the laws governing clockwork and ping-pong balls.
pikachu commented on the word dice
Or think of a decent young citizen in a toga--perhaps too much dice, you know--coming out here in the train of some prefect, or tax-gatherer, or trader even, to mend his fortunes. -- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
March 5, 2011