dice
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: From Middle English dys, plural of dy. See the etymology of die (etymology 2) for further information. The voiceless /s/ was most likely retained because the word felt like a collective term rather than a plural form (compare pence), and the spelling dice is a result of the pronunciation.
Inflected forms:
form: dice
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dices
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dices
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dicing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: diced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: diced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Gaming with one or more dice.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Or think of a decent young citizen in a toga—perhaps too much dice, you know—coming out here in the train of some prefect, or tax-gatherer, or trader even, to mend his fortunes.
On the other hand, evolution is not a matter of chance, even in the sense in which a game of dice is a game of chance.
I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.
The problem is that no one can throw a die twice in precisely the same way, and this is why dice is a game of chance and not a skill.
gloss: A die.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 1980, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, “The Winner Takes It All”, Super Trouper, Polar Music
The gods may throw a dice / Their minds as cold as ice
A white house set like a dice on a rock already venerable with the scars of wind and water.
When we see a dice, we see an object which has six sides, some of which can be seen from where we are, others can be seen if we twist it or move around it.
gloss: That which has been diced.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Cut onions, carrots and celery into medium dice.
If your worship is inclined to take a small draught of good wine, though not very cool, I have here a calabash full of the best, and some dices of Tronchon cheese
gloss: To play dice.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times — a week
For Corinius, who gave not a fig for music or dirges, but liked well of carding and dicing, had brought forth his dice box to play with the son of Corund.
Tyrion found Timmett dicing with his Burned Men in the barracks.
gloss: To cut into small cubes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan....
Dice the vegetables and heat in the double boiler with butter, pepper and salt.
But as our urban lives have grown more pressed for time, we have diced our opportunity costs finer and finer; from budgeting days or slabs of hours, we have come to rationing minutes.
gloss: To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: astragals
Derived words: bale of dice
diceboard
dice box
dicebox
dice-box
dice coal
dice divination
dice game
dice girl
diceless
dicelike
dicemaker
diceman
dice mechanic
dice oracle
diceplay
dice roll
dice run
dice shaker
dice snake
dice tower
diceware
dicey
drugstore dice
Efron's dice
electric dice
fuzzy dice
God does not play dice
God does not play dice with the universe
let the dice fall where they may
liar dice
liar's dice
loaded dice
no dice
pass-dice
percentage dice
percentile dice
Poker Dice
precision dice
roll of the dice
roll the dice
throw of the dice
dice up
dice with death
slice and dice
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