Definitions for Dice

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Dice dice

Spelling: [dahys]

IPA: /daɪs/

Dice is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in Dice (cdei).

Definitions for Dice

noun

1. Machinery. any of various devices for cutting or forming material in a press or a stamping or forging machine. 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. one of the separate pieces of such a device. 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. singular of dice.
4. Architecture. dado (def 1).

Idioms

1. no dice, Informal. of no use or help; ineffective.
2. the die is cast, the irrevocable decision has been made; fate has taken charge:

plural 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, especially 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)

1. to cut into small cubes.
2. to decorate with cubelike figures.
3. to lose by gambling with dice (often followed by away).
4. to impress, shape, or cut with a die.

verb (used without object)

1. to play at dice.
2. to cause or bring about by gambling with dice.
3. Auto Racing. to duel with another car or cars in a dice.

Origin of Dice

1300-50; Middle English dees, dis, dyce (singular and plural), dyces (plural) Old French de(i)z, dés (plural); see die²

Examples for Dice

When tender, drain them, remove the skins, and dice the beets.

Have ready some toasted bread cut into small squares or dice.

So why are so many wealthy Florida business owners lining up to roll the dice?

Healthy individuals had lucked out while their sick relatives simple ended up with a bad genetic roll of the dice.

dice had just finished a stand-up show in Westbury, and his manager phoned to tell him Woody Allen wanted a meeting.

He learned of him how to play the dice, and a pack the cards—he paid him L1,000.

Instead, Obama, like Jon Stewart, uses jokes that slice and dice his targets by name.

We learning how to dice an onion into perfect, tiny cubes (the secret is not to remove the root when you peel the skin).

Words, sir, never influence the course of the cards, or the course of the dice.

Cut up the flesh of the claws and tail into dice, and stir it in.