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noun

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.

poker dice.

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.

any small cubes.

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)

to cut into small cubes.

to decorate with cubelike figures.

to lose by gambling with dice (often followed by away).

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Dice is one of our favorite verbs.

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to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.

to chew (food) slowly and thoroughly.

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verb (used without object)

to play at dice.

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to cause or bring about by gambling with dice.

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Auto Racing. to duel with another car or cars in a dice.

Idiom

12.

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

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English dees, dis, dyce (singular and plural), dyces (plural) < Old French de(i)z, dés (plural); see die²

Related forms

dic·er, noun

Can be confused: dice, die, dye.

Example Sentences

Some virtuosos become human slice, dice and mince machines.

Conozco la idioma inglés y sé como se dice muchas cosas.

There was no board and no way to win-and those weirdly shaped dice looked confusing.

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Some virtuosos become human slice, dice and mince machines.

Conozco la idioma inglés y sé como se dice muchas cosas.

There was no board and no way to win-and those weirdly shaped dice looked confusing.

Simmer for several minutes, drain the vegetables, and dice the asparagus.

Unfortunately, the randomness of the dice and of the slot machine ensure that there's no reality to these patterns at all.

The gambler in me wants to throw the dice a few more times.

Wash and dice vegetables and sauté until translucent in butter.

Draw three dice at random and roll them at the same time.

Waugh hopes that the dice will turn up something exciting.

For a time, he had a craps table so he and his graduate students could study the odds of dice rolls.

Overall, however, investment banks will have fewer opportunities to roll the dice.

Dice lobster when cooled into chunks and mix together with the remaining ingredients.

God doesn't play dice since the universe is one big clockwork movement.

No dice on either front, but there was plenty to keep our eyes occupied, from the vintage signs.

Lucky for all of us chumps still chucking dice at our dinner tables, he.

Cards, dice and roulette inspire luxury watch designs that also let wearers play the games.

Hire a modernist, even the best, and you are throwing the dice.

It is not properly applicable to a player who stocks the cards or loads the dice beforehand.

Roll the dice and lay down any combination of tiles to match your roll.

Zeilinger compares the phenomenon with throwing a pair of dice that land on matching numbers every time.

But that's not stopping online bettors from rolling the dice.

The roulette wheels spun, the chips clicked and clacked and the gamblers pleaded with the dice.

It is about what one would get from the sum of two thrown dice.

Les dice a sus habitantes cuándo salir de la cama, y cómo vestirse de acuerdo al clima.

Humanity, in other words, has likely loaded the weather dice in favor of severe storms.

Good ol' fashioned paper, pencil, and polyhedron dice role-playing games.

Bring a small pot of water to a boil and throw in the potato dice.

But the dice would be quicker, arguably more fun and lot cheaper.

El sonido que rebota le dice al murciélago dónde está el objeto.

At the start of each round, one player rolls all five dice.

Put the dice into a kettle and cook, stirring often, until they are rendered of fat and are slightly crisp.

Some firms are trying to load the dice by turning to traditional medicine.

Tal vez hayas viajado en un auto con una máquina que le dice al conductor dónde debe ir.

Success rests on virtual dice rolls based on your stats.

Here is an opportunity to kick him out and roll the dice.

At a signal, everyone rolls their building dice simultaneously and starts to build.

One more throw of the dice and the gambler might win back his losses.

The stakes are too high to roll the dice on what little wilderness remains.

And supposedly it has been beta-testing even better ways to slice and dice fare data.

Dems to outvote the swarm of discontented independents who this time aren't going to be suckered into rolling the dice again.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

Machinery.

any of various devices for cutting or forming material in a press or a stamping or forging machine.

a hollow device of steel, often composed of several pieces to be fitted into a stock, for cutting the threads of bolts or the like.

one of the separate pieces of such a device.

a steel block or plate with small conical holes through which wire, plastic rods, etc., are drawn.

an engraved stamp for impressing a design upon some softer material, as in coining money.

singular of dice.

Architecture. dado (def. 1).

verb (used with object)

to impress, shape, or cut with a die.

Idiom

the die is cast, the irrevocable decision has been made; fate has taken charge: The die is cast—I can't turn back.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English de (in early Modern English taking the vowel of the plural form dice) < Old French de(i), presumbly < Latin datum given (neuter past participle of dare to give), perhaps in the derivative sense “put, placed,” hence “played, cast”

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World English Dictionary

dice (daɪs)

—*pl n*
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.	(functioning as singular) Also called: die one of these cubes
3.	small cubes as of vegetables, chopped meat, etc
4.	slang chiefly (US), (Canadian) no dice an expression of refusal or rejection

—vb
5.	to cut (food, etc) into small cubes
6.	(intr) to gamble with or play at a game involving dice
7.	(intr) to take a chance or risk (esp in the phrase dice with death)
8.	informal (Austral) (tr) to abandon or reject
9.	(tr) to decorate or mark with dicelike shapes

[C14: plural of die²]

'dicer

—n

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Word Origin & History

dice

early 14c., des, dys, plural of dy (see die (n.)), altered 14c. to dyse, dyce, and 15c. to dice. "As in pence, the plural s retains its original breath sound, probably because these words were not felt as ordinary plurals, but as collective words" [OED]. Sometimes used as singular

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1400-1700. The verb "to cut into cubes" is first recorded late 14c. Related: Diced.

die

early 14c. (as a plural), from O.Fr. de, of uncertain origin, perhaps from L. datum "given," pp. of dare (see date (1)), which, in addition to "give," had a secondary sense of "to play" (as a chess piece); or else from "what is given" (by chance or Fortune). Sense of "stamping

block or tool" first recorded 1690s.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

die (dī)
v. died, dy·ing (dī'ĭng), dies

To cease living; become dead; expire.
To cease existing, especially by degrees; fade.

Slang Dictionary

die definition

in.
to “perish” (figuratively) from laughter or some other emotionally intense response. : The whole audience died laughing.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Abbreviations & Acronyms

DICE
data integration and collection environment

American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

dice

see load the dice; no deal (dice).

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