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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

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

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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All the factors above can load the dice for hotter spells to affect the UK.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Choosing to take Social Security at 62 versus 70 is a roll of the dice.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

And this time the roll of the dice didn’t work, with Turkey getting its only win of the tournament on its last touch of the World Cup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

That, and the fact that many of the people making these movies and shows rolled 20-sided dice with their pals back in the day.

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026

“Yup. I know. But I’m going to roll the dice on a hunch.”

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

Lilian Edwards, a professor of law and technology at Newcastle University in England, says people should state how they want their digital information to be handled after they die.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

In New Zealand, patients must be terminally ill and expected to die within six months.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Like the Marines, great artists don’t really die, they just endure through new waves of admirers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

But over the last two decades, the already tiny space for indie film has grown even smaller, being phased out by streamers — the place indies go to die — and YouTube.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

His tail was the first part of him to die.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

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

Best of all, Baldessari’s question slices and dices received wisdom with rapier wit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2020

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

As a Duke product working under Cutcliffe with connections to the Manning brothers, Jones often gets labeled as a cerebral signal-caller who dices defenses up mentally.

From Reuters ● Apr. 22, 2019

“It dices, it slices! But wait! There’s more!”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Myka’s fro-yo is served with toppings like extra-virgin olive oil, diced figs, Maldon salt and a hazelnut cream mixed with the crunch of kataifi, an ingredient made famous by Dubai chocolate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

Crisp bacon, juicy diced tomatoes and ribbons of shaved green cabbage get folded in at the end, where they stay cool, crunchy and unmistakably BLT-adjacent.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

Their defenses were diced up by opposing quarterbacks at crucial moments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

A recent hypnotic percussion piece of diced rhythms and pureed textures is called “the so-called laws of nature.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025

In it was some barley, a little sand for grit, bread crumbs, cornmeal, diced apple peels, and sometimes even bugs or worms.

From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper

The bank is undergoing a shake-up under Chief Executive Georges Elhedery, who took over in the fall of 2024 and has set about cutting staff and slicing and dicing divisions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025

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

The result was Gabriel dicing them for 341 passing yards, well over Ohio State’s nation-low average of 141.2 yards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024

A few days later, I used the spread as the base of a delicious lentil soup when I didn't feel like slicing and dicing fresh vegetables.

From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2023

Day or night, the benches below the salt were never less than half-full with men drinking, dicing, talking, or sleeping in their clothes in quiet comers.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin