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  • 81dice — Synonyms and related words: bird cage, bones, cashier, cast, crap game, crap shooting, craps, crooked dice, cube, cubes, die, form fours, ivories, ivory, jettison, loaded dice, make four, poker dice, quadrate, reject, scrap, shed, slough, square …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 82dice — 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… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 83dice — [[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

  • 84Dice — 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… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 85Dicé (homonymie) — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Dans la mythologie grecque, Dicé est une divinité allégorique personnifiant la Justice. En astronomie, (99) Dicé est un astéroïde. Catégorie : Homonymie …

    Wikipédia en Français

  • 86Dice Quay —    Out of Lower Thames Street at No. 23, between Smart s Quay west and Ralph s Quay east. In Tower Ward (Leake, 1666 Lockie, 1816, and Horwood, 1799).    Former names : le Dycekey 1 Ed. V. (Anc. Deeds, A. 1841). Dycekey, 1559 (Act of Parlt.).… …

    Dictionary of London

  • 87dice — [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

  • 88dice are loaded —    If everything seems to work to your disadvantage, and you are not likely to succeed, the dice are loaded against you.     I applied for the job, but being a woman, and over forty, the dice were loaded against me …

    English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • 89dice — [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 …

    Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • 90dice — [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 …

    Word origins