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dice

Audio Help [dahys] Pronunciation Key plural noun, singular die, verb, diced, dic·ing.

–noun

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, esp. gambling games, played by shaking and throwing from two to six dice or poker dice onto a flat surface. Compare craps.

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.

–verb (used with object)

6.	to cut into small cubes.

7.	to decorate with cubelike figures.

8.	to lose by gambling with dice (often fol. by away).

–verb (used without object)

9.	to play at dice.

10.	to cause or bring about by gambling with dice.

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

—Idiom

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

[Origin: 1300–50; ME dees, dis, dyce (sing. and pl.), dyces (pl.) < OF de(i)z, dés (pl.); see die²

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—Related forms

dicer, noun

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die2

Audio Help [dahy] Pronunciation Key noun, plural dies for 1, 2, 4, dice for 3; verb, died, die·ing.

–noun

Machinery.

a.	any of various devices for cutting or forming material in a press or a stamping or forging machine.

b.	a hollow device of steel, often composed of several pieces to be fitted into a stock, for cutting the threads of bolts or the like.

c.	one of the separate pieces of such a device.

d.	a steel block or plate with small conical holes through which wire, plastic rods, etc., are drawn.

2.	an engraved stamp for impressing a design upon some softer material, as in coining money.

3.	sing. of dice.

4.	Architecture. dado (def. 1).

–verb (used with object)

5.	to impress, shape, or cut with a die.

—Idiom

6.	the die is cast, the irrevocable decision has been made; fate has taken charge: The die is cast—I can't turn back.

[Origin: 1300–50; ME de (in early modern E taking the vowel of the pl. form dice) < OF de(i), presumbly < L datum given (neut. ptp. of dare to give), perh. in the deriv. sense “put, placed,” hence “played, cast”

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dice Audio Help (dīs) Pronunciation Key
n.

Plural of die².
pl. dice also dices
1. A small cube, as of food.
2. A dish of diced food.

v.   diced, dic·ing, dic·es

v.   intr.
To play or gamble with dice.

v.   tr.

To win or lose (money) by gambling with dice.
To cut (food) into small cubes.
To decorate with dicelike figures.

[Pl. of die².]

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