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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
- From Middle English dys, plural of dy.
- The voiceless /s/ was most likely retained because the word felt like a collective term rather than a plural form (compare pence). The spelling dice is a result of the pronunciation.
- See die Etymology 2.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
dice (countable and uncountable, plural dice or dices)
- (uncountable) Gaming with one or more dice.
- 1899, Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness:
- 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.
- 1964, Theodosius Grigorievich Dobzhansky, Heredity and the nature of man:
- 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.
- 1971, Albert Einstein, Max Born, and Hedwig Born. Irene Born (tr.), The Born-Einstein Letters[1], page 91:
- I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.
- 1990, Ivar Ekeland, Mathematics and the Unexpected, page 67:
- 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.
- (countable, proscribed by some; standard in British English) A die.
- 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
- 1945, Lawrence Durrell, Prospero's Cell: A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corfu:
- A white house set like a dice on a rock already venerable with the scars of wind and water.
- 2009, Hubert L. Dreyfus, Mark A. Wrathall, A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism, page 106:
- 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.
- 1980, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, “The Winner Takes It All”, Super Trouper, Polar Music
- (uncountable, formerly countable, cooking) That which has been diced.
- Cut onions, carrots and celery into medium dice.
- 1782, Tobias George Smollett, The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote, 5 edition, translation of original by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra:
- 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
Usage notes[edit]
- The singular usage is considered incorrect by many authorities. However, it should be noted that The New Oxford Dictionary of English, Judy Pearsall, Patrick Hanks (1998) states that “In modern standard English, the singular die (rather than dice) is uncommon. Dice is used for both the singular and the plural.”
- Die is predominant among tabletop gamers.
Quotations[edit]
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:dice.
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from dice (noun)
Translations[edit]
polyhedron used in games of chance — see die
Noun[edit]
dice
Verb[edit]
dice (third-person singular simple present dices, present participle dicing, simple past and past participle diced)
- (intransitive) To play dice.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iii]:
- Virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times — a week
- 1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 407:
- Tyrion found Timmett dicing with his Burned Men in the barracks.
- (transitive) To cut into small cubes.
- 1898, Thomas Hardy, "Hap":
- And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan....
- 1928, “Carrots and Beets in Turnip Border”, in The Ladies' Home Journal, volume 45, page 109:
- Dice the vegetables and heat in the double boiler with butter, pepper and salt.
- 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian[2]:
- 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.
- 1898, Thomas Hardy, "Hap":
- (transitive) To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to cut into small cubes
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to play dice
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Anagrams[edit]
Interlingua[edit]
Verb[edit]
dice
- present of dicer
- imperative of dicer
Italian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
dice
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
dīce
References[edit]
- “dice”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- dice in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- “dice”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[3]
- “dice”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “dice”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
dice
- Alternative form of dees
Spanish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- dize (archaic)
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
dice
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of decir.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of decir.
Tarantino[edit]
Numeral[edit]
dice
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