dīce

  • 31dice — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. pl., slang, cubes, ivories; cheaters, doctors. v. t. cube, cut up. See disjunction. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. cubes, counters, pair of dice, misspotted dice, bones*, ivories*, tombstones*, galloping… …

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  • 32dice — [[t]daɪs[/t]] n. pl. sing. die for1, 1) gam small cubes, marked on each side with one to six spots, usu. used in pairs in games or gambling 2) gam (used with a sing. v.) any of various games, esp. gambling games, played by shaking and throwing… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 33Dice — Die Die, n.; pl. in 1 and (usually) in 2, {Dice} (d[=i]s); in 4 & 5, {Dies} (d[=i]z). [OE. dee, die, F. d[ e], fr. L. datus given, thrown, p. p. of dare to give, throw. See {Date} a point of time.] 1. A small cube, marked on its faces with spots… …

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  • 34dice — [14] Dice originated, as every schoolboy knows, as the plural of die, which it has now virtually replaced in British English as the term for a ‘cube marked with numbers’. Die itself comes via Old French de from Latin datum, the past participle of …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 35dice — [daɪs] (plural dice) noun [C] I a small block with a number of spots on each side, that you use for playing games II verb [T] dice [daɪs] to cut food into small square pieces …

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  • 36dice — [14] Dice originated, as every schoolboy knows, as the plural of die, which it has now virtually replaced in British English as the term for a ‘cube marked with numbers’. Die itself comes via Old French de from Latin datum, the past participle of …

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  • 37dice — n. & v. n.pl. 1 a small cubes with faces bearing 1 6 spots used in games of chance. b (treated as sing.) one of these cubes (see DIE(2)). 2 a game played with one or more such cubes. 3 food cut into small cubes for cooking. v. 1 a intr. play dice …

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  • 38dice — See: NO DEAL or NO DICE …

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  • 39dice — See: NO DEAL or NO DICE …

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  • 40Dice — throw away; discard, abandon ( To dice out ) …

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