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• plural of die.

dice

American  

[dahys] / daɪs /

plural noun

• die
  singular

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. poker dice.

3. any of various games, especially gambling games, played by shaking and throwing from two to six dice or poker dice onto a flat surface.

4. any small cubes.

5. Auto Racing. a jockeying for lead position between two or more drivers in which tactics are used to pass or keep from being passed.

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verb (used with object)

• dices,
  present (3rd person singular)
• diced,
  past participle,  past
• dicing
  present participle

1. to cut into small cubes.

2. to decorate with cubelike figures.

3. to lose by gambling with dice (often followed byaway ).

verb (used without object)

• dices,
  present (3rd person singular)
• diced,
  past participle,  past
• dicing
  present participle

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.

idioms

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

dice British  

/ 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 called: die. (functioning as singular) one of these cubes

3. small cubes as of vegetables, chopped meat, etc

4. slang an expression of refusal or rejection

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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

dice More Idioms  

1. see load the dice; no deal (dice).

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Usage

Plural word for dice Dice is the plural form of the singular noun die, referring to a small cube of plastic, ivory, or other material, marked on each side with one to six spots. The more standard English plural form dies is used for other senses of the word die but not for the small cube. Dice derives directly from this irregular noun’s original pluralization in Middle English. Dice is sometimes treated as both a singular and plural form of die. The singular die is less commonly used.

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• dicer
  noun

Inflected Forms

Participles

• dicing
  present
• diced
  past

Conjugated Forms

Present

• dice
  simple
• dices
  simple
• have diced
  perfect
• has diced
  perfect
• am dicing
  progressive
• are dicing
  progressive
• is dicing
  progressive
• have been dicing
  perfect progressive
• has been dicing
  perfect progressive

Past

• diced
  simple
• had diced
  perfect
• was dicing
  progressive
• were dicing
  progressive
• had been dicing
  perfect progressive

Future

• will dice
  simple
• will have diced
  perfect
• will be dicing
  progressive
• will have been dicing
  perfect progressive

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Etymology

Origin of dice

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

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Explanation

Dice are what you roll when you're playing Yahtzee or Monopoly; they are two cubes marked with dots on each side that represent the numbers one through six. The noun dice is the plural form of the singular die. Although many people use the word dice when they're talking about a single die, it's actually only correct to call two or more of the dotted cubes dice. You can also use the word as a verb to mean "chop into tiny pieces or cubes." You might, for example, read a recipe instruction that says: "Dice three tomatoes."

Example Sentences

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Have you had enough of the mayor you know, and are you ready to roll the dice on someone you don’t?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

"We're rolling the dice with our children," Carter declared at a House of Representatives hearing.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

Jack Clark, an Anthropic executive and co-founder, told the BBC on Monday that leaving AI to be a "totally unregulated industry" was "rolling dice with immense risks".

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

He plans to pay the fine — roughly one game’s worth of pay — pass go and roll the dice again like nothing happened.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

The coffee shop, with its two tiny tables and many chairs, drew the men who played card games, chess, and backgammon, and threw dice.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat

"I don't want to die estranged from Meghan. I want to meet my grandkids. It might be nice to meet her husband too," Markle told the Mail on Sunday at the time.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Nearly 85 percent of patients die within five years of being diagnosed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

"I have lived through all the stages of the occupation, and I will die here."

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

About one to three people out of 1,000 die from measles, with children at the greatest risk of dying.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

Now it was up to Owen to make sure they didn’t die out here.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Lira dices strawberries and basil for dessert empanadas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025

As an adult, you realize more and more how money slices and dices us into First Class and Priority, the not you’s and the not yets, the zip codes and carets.

From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2024

Yu fries as well as he slices and dices.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 20, 2022

At Wellesley College, Dr. Angela Carpenter teaches the foundation of language creation, which she dices into roughly six blocks: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, grammatical rules of verbs, and nouns and what they indicate.

From The Verge ● Feb. 7, 2020

“Bueno, ¿Y qué me dices? What’s the news from the sixth-grader?”

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

Processing tomatoes — those used in products such as canned diced tomatoes and ketchup — are also fetching lower prices than they did a few years ago.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

They're 16th in the Championship having diced with relegation last season, eventually finishing 20th in what was Montgomery's breakthrough season.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

When Raspados Nayarit serves its tuba compuesta — vibrant pink, chilled and topped with diced apples and peanuts — it is a reminder of home for Colimenses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

My supermarket frequently runs 10-for-$10 deals on canned goods, which is essentially my signal to replenish the pantry backbone: black beans, chickpeas, navy beans, diced tomatoes.

From Salon ● May 22, 2026

There were all kinds of green vegetables in the chow yuk—string beans and pea pods, and also pieces of diced chicken.

From "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden

The slicing and dicing of available tables can mean there are only so many seats at the most sought-after establishments, begetting a sense of scarcity at the highest levels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

On the way loans were being made by private credit, Mr Bailey said there was starting to be "what used to be called sort of slicing and dicing and tranching of loan structures".

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2025

Instead, the federal system leaves that slicing and dicing for a different phase of the criminal justice system: sentencing.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2023

I am disappointed, once again, to experience the continual and consistent slicing and dicing of what was once a great daily publication.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2023

After I hung up, I tried to concentrate on dinner — dicing the chicken especially; I didn’t want to take another trip to the emergency room.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

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