dice
plural 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.
dicer
-
a word derived from
dice.
Example Sentences
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These pre-miRNAs are chopped into mature miRNAs by a protein called dicer.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Price: ~$12 Amazon Joseph Joseph garlic rocker If your friend uses garlic in their cooking, don't bother getting them an old-fashioned dicer that just makes a mess.
From The Verge ● Nov. 9, 2020
Earth does most of the cooking; Fire is the sous chef and the dicer of garlic.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 23, 2015
Essentially, he will put the entire genome in a dicer that will chop it into millions of segments.
From Time Magazine Archive
He leaned forward, white and eager, waiting for the truth like a dicer for the final throw.
From Dragon's blood by Henry Milner Rideout
