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dice

[ dahys ]

plural noun

, singular die.
  1. small cubes of plastic, ivory, bone, or wood, marked on each side with one to six spots, usually used in pairs in games of chance or in gambling.
  2. any of various games, especially gambling games, played by shaking and throwing from two to six dice or poker dice onto a flat surface. Compare craps.
  3. any small cubes.
  4. Auto Racing. a jockeying for lead position between two or more drivers in which tactics are used to pass or keep from being passed.


verb (used with object)

dicingdiced
  1. to cut into small cubes.
  2. to decorate with cubelike figures.
  3. to lose by gambling with dice (often followed by away ).

verb (used without object)

diceddicing
  1. to play at dice.
  2. to cause or bring about by gambling with dice.
  3. Auto Racing. to duel with another car or cars in a dice.

dice

/ daɪs /

plural noun

  1. cubes of wood, plastic, etc, each of whose sides has a different number of spots (1 to 6), used in games of chance and in gambling to give random numbers
  2. Also calleddie functioning as singular one of these cubes
  3. small cubes as of vegetables, chopped meat, etc
  4. no dice slang.
    an expression of refusal or rejection


verb

  1. to cut (food, etc) into small cubes
  2. intr to gamble with or play at a game involving dice
  3. intr to take a chance or risk (esp in the phrase dice with death )
  4. informal.
    tr to abandon or reject
  5. tr to decorate or mark with dicelike shapes

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Derived Forms

  • ˈdicer, noun

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Other Words From

  • dicer noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of dice1

1300–50; Middle English dees, dis, dyce (singular and plural), dyces (plural) < Old French de(i)z, dés (plural); die 2

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Word History and Origins

Origin of dice1

C14: plural of die ²

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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. no dice, Informal. of no use or help; ineffective.

More idioms and phrases containing dice

see load the dice ; no deal (dice) .

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Example Sentences

So why are so many wealthy Florida business owners lining up to roll the dice?

Instead, Obama, like Jon Stewart, uses jokes that slice and dice his targets by name.

Healthy individuals had lucked out while their sick relatives simple ended up with a bad genetic roll of the dice.

We learning how to dice an onion into perfect, tiny cubes (the secret is not to remove the root when you peel the skin).

Dice had just finished a stand-up show in Westbury, and his manager phoned to tell him Woody Allen wanted a meeting.

Because they used a heavier ball, roulette looked about the same as on Earth, and the same went for the dice games.

Anyway, the dice were sure loaded against a certain party he knew.

By a strange mania this prince spends his time sitting before a table, on which are placed six dice and a dice-box.

True the Prophet—on whom be peace—forbids dice; but Allah will be compassionate, and I have some about me.

And Mary, opening her eyes, now saw Zubair and the chief standing by the rock, and shaking the dice in the hollows of their hands.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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