dice

[ dahys ]

/ daɪs /

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plural noun, singular die.

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), diced,dic·ing.

to cut into small cubes.

to decorate with cubelike figures.

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

verb (used without object), diced,dic·ing.

to play at dice.

to cause or bring about by gambling with dice.

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

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Idioms about dice

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

Origin of dice

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

OTHER WORDS FROM dice

dicer, noun

Words nearby dice

DiCaprio, dicarboxylic acid, dicarboxylic acid cycle, dicast, dicastery, dice, dice cup, dicentra, dicentric, dicephalous, dicey

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How to use dice in a sentence

There are various ways you can slice and dice the data, most obviously by considering the effects of age and sex.
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Add the remaining oil to the empty pot, followed by the onions and the diced vegetables and cook, stirring occasionally, softened slightly, about 4 minutes.
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Turn up the heat to medium-high, and toss in the diced pineapple, cooking for two more minutes until the pineapple is heated through and slightly soft.
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Unfortunately, finding a clique of 128 dice is a particularly thorny problem.
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At that point, you can rule out all the configurations of 128 dice that involve that unworkable starting configuration of 12 tiles.
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So why are so many wealthy Florida business owners lining up to roll the dice?
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Instead, Obama, like Jon Stewart, uses jokes that slice and dice his targets by name.
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Healthy individuals had lucked out while their sick relatives simple ended up with a bad genetic roll of the dice.
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We learning how to dice an onion into perfect, tiny cubes (the secret is not to remove the root when you peel the skin).
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Dice had just finished a stand-up show in Westbury, and his manager phoned to tell him Woody Allen wanted a meeting.
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Because they used a heavier ball, roulette looked about the same as on Earth, and the same went for the dice games.
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Anyway, the dice were sure loaded against a certain party he knew.
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By a strange mania this prince spends his time sitting before a table, on which are placed six dice and a dice-box.
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True the Prophet—on whom be peace—forbids dice; but Allah will be compassionate, and I have some about me.
God Wills It!|William Stearns Davis
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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British Dictionary definitions for dice

dice

/ (daɪs) /

pl n

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

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

small cubes as of vegetables, chopped meat, etc

no dice slang, mainly US and Canadian an expression of refusal or rejection

verb

to cut (food, etc) into small cubes

(intr) to gamble with or play at a game involving dice

(intr) to take a chance or risk (esp in the phrase dice with death)

(tr) Australian informal to abandon or reject

(tr) to decorate or mark with dicelike shapes

Derived forms of dice

dicer, noun

Word Origin for dice

C14: plural of die ²

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see load the dice; no deal (dice).

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