Die

[daɪ]

解释:

(noun.) a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers.

(noun.) a device used for shaping metal.

(noun.) a cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods.

(verb.) suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense); 'Whosoever..believes in me shall never die'.

(verb.) disappear or come to an end; 'Their anger died'; 'My secret will die with me!'.

(verb.) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; 'She died from cancer'; 'The children perished in the fire'; 'The patient went peacefully'; 'The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102'.

(verb.) lose sparkle or bouquet; 'wine and beer can pall'.

(verb.) to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player.

(verb.) cut or shape with a die; 'Die out leather for belts'.

(verb.) be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame; 'I was dying with embarrassment when my little lie was discovered'; 'We almost died laughing during the show'.

(verb.) languish as with love or desire; 'She dying for a cigarette'; 'I was dying to leave'.

(verb.) feel indifferent towards; 'She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery'.

(verb.) suffer or face the pain of death; 'Martyrs may die every day for their faith'.

校对:迈克尔--From WordNet

解释:

(pl. ) of Dice

(v. i.) To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought.

(v. i.) To suffer death; to lose life.

(v. i.) To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.

(v. i.) To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.

(v. i.) To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.

(v. i.) To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away.

(v. i.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.

(v. i.) To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.

(n.) A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice.

(n.) Any small cubical or square body.

(n.) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.

(n.) That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado.

(n.) A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc.

(n.) A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing.

(n.) A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool.

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同义词及近义词：

v. n. [1]. Expire, decease, depart, leave the world, draw the last breath, cease to exist, give up the ghost, pay the debt of nature, take one's last sleep, shuffle off this mortal coil, go the way of all flesh, go to one's last home, be numbered with the dead, cross the Styx, cross the Stygian ferry, POP OFF, KICK THE BUCKET.[2]. Wither, perish, lose life.[3]. Cease, vanish, disappear, come to nothing, come to an end, be lost, be heard of no more.

n. [1]. Small cube (for gaming).[2]. Dado, cube of a pedestal.[3]. Stamp.

校对:玛克辛

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Expire, depart, perish, decline, decease, disappear, wither, languish, wane,sink, fade, decay, cease

ANT:Begin, originate, rise, live, {[develoftel]?}, develoftel_grow, strengthen,flourish, luxuriate, vegetate

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解释:

n. a small cube used in gaming by being thrown from a box: any small cubical body: hazard:—pl. Dice (dīs).—n. Dice′-box.—adj. Diced ornamented with square or diamond-shaped figures.—ns. Dice′-play; Dice′-play′er Dī′cer; Dī′cing-house.—The die is cast the question is decided.

n. a stamp for impressing coin &c.: the cubical part of a pedestal:—pl. Dies (dīz).—ns. Die′-sink′er; Die′-sink′ing the engraving of dies; Die′-stock a contrivance for holding the dies used in screw-cutting; Die′-work ornamentation of a metal surface by impressions with a die.

v.i. to lose life: to perish: to wither: to languish: to become insensible:—pr.p. dy′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. died (dīd).—adj. Die′-away′ languishing.—Die away to disappear by degrees become gradually inaudible; Die game to keep up one's spirit to the last; Die hard to struggle hard against death to be long in dying; Die off to die quickly or in large numbers; Die out to become extinct to disappear.

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