dice
See also: Dice
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
- (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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.
Noun
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, volumes 3-4, 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
- 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
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:dice.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from dice (noun)
Translations
polyhedron used in games of chance — see die
Verb
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- (intransitive) To play dice.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, part 1, Act III, scene iii:
- Virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times — a week
- 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 407:
- Tyrion found Timmett dicing with his Burned Men in the barracks.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, part 1, Act III, scene iii:
- (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.
- 1898, Thomas Hardy, "Hap":
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.- 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.
- (transitive) To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.
Derived terms
Translations
to cut into small cubes
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to play dice
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Etymology 2
Noun
dice
Anagrams
Interlingua
Verb
dice
- present of dicer
- imperative of dicer
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -itʃe
Verb
dice
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) dīce
References
- “dice”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, 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 and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Middle English
Noun
dice
- Alternative form of dees
Spanish
Alternative forms
- dize (archaic)
Pronunciation
Verb
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.
- (“says”): 1615, Miguel de Cervantes, “Capítulo XXXII”, in El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, Segunda parte:
- Digo, señor don Quijote -dijo la duquesa-, que en todo cuanto vuestra merced dice va con pie de plomo, y, como suele decirse, con la sonda en la mano; y que yo desde aquí adelante creeré [...] que hay Dulcinea en el Toboso, [...] merecedora que un tal caballero como es el señor don Quijote la sirva; que es lo más que puedo ni sé encarecer.
- “I say, Sir Don Quixote,” said the duchess, “that in all your mercy says, he goes with leaden feet, and as the saying goes, with sounding plummet in hand; and that I henceforth will believe, [...] that there is a Dulcinea in El Toboso, [...] deserving of such a knight as Sir Don Quixote in her service, which is the highest praise that I can give her.”
- Digo, señor don Quijote -dijo la duquesa-, que en todo cuanto vuestra merced dice va con pie de plomo, y, como suele decirse, con la sonda en la mano; y que yo desde aquí adelante creeré [...] que hay Dulcinea en el Toboso, [...] merecedora que un tal caballero como es el señor don Quijote la sirva; que es lo más que puedo ni sé encarecer.
- (“says”):
Tarantino
Numeral
dice
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