dicing

[dahy-sing]

noun

1. gambling or playing with dice. die.

2. ornamentation, especially of leather, with squares or diamonds.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dicing¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; dice, -ing ¹

Example Sentences

On the floor of the California Assembly--where conduct runs from informal to rowdy amid fourscore voices slicing and dicing in partisan disunity--volcanic John Burton fits right in.

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The trick was slicing and dicing Democratic-leaning Salt Lake County, the state’s most populous and densely packed, and scattering its voters among four predominantly Republican districts.

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The lines are “third-world dictator stuff,” Orange County GOP chair Will O’Neill said on X, and the “slicing and dicing of Orange County cities is obscene.”

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One minute you’re dicing daikon, the next you look up and it’s midnight.

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But that relationship breaks down when you’re counting only payroll workers, slicing and dicing the statistics into industry sectors.

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