Die
[daɪ]
Definition
(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'.
Typist: Michael--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Typed by Geoffrey
Synonyms and Synonymous
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.
Typist: Maxine
Synonyms and Antonyms
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
Checked by Clifton
Definition
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.
Typed by Ina
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The singular of 'dice. ' We seldom hear the word because there is a prohibitory proverb 'Never say die. ' At long intervals however some one says: 'The die is cast which is not true, for it is cut. The word is found in an immortal couplet by that eminent poet and domestic economist, Senator Depew:
Typed by Jody
Unserious Contents or Definition
An effect.
Typed by Bernadine
Examples
- What had caused this species to die out? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- If he were only to die-- Wildeve murmured. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I will live and die here! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I considered; my life was so wretched, it must be changed, or I must die. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- One was called the Ars Memorandi, or Art of Remembering, and the other the Ars Moriendi, or Art of Knowing How to Die. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I wonder, if she was to die, whether she'd leave Davy anything? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Do it, Heyling, do it, but save my boy; he is so young, Heyling, so young to die! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- His mother had died, years before. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Yet they all had lived and died unconscious of the different fates awaiting their relics. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- They can both tell you that she died when Arthur went abroad. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- As the golden swim of light overhead died out, the moon gained brightness, and seemed to begin to smile forth her ascendancy. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Instead he let him remain in his dungeon in the Bastille, where he died in 1589. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Therefore, those who had died at his hands must have seen him and paid the penalty with their lives. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I saw her, and anger, and hate, and injustice died at her bier, giving place at their departure to a remorse (Great God, that I should feel it! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- This growth and dying and reproduction of living things leads to some very wonderful consequences. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I would not tell him that I thought him dying, so I expressed my regret that he had not written to me when he was so ill. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Still there would not be all this dying to go through. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I am deeply sensible of your generosity, and I shall treasure its remembrance to my dying hour. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I am a dying man, said old Turner. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- She admired the self-possession and the control of the dying man exceedingly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The one candle was dying out: the room was full of moonlight. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- One charm of travel dies here. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The steel for the manufacture of dies is carefully selected, forged at a high heat into the rough die, softened by careful annealing, and then handed over to the engraver. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Such a creature as a reptile has in its brain a capacity for experience, but when the individual dies, its experience dies with it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Any woman that dies unmarried is looked upon to die in a state of reprobation. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I hold you till one or other of us faints or dies! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Their force has long passed away--Age has no pleasures, wrinkles have no influence, revenge itself dies away in impotent curses. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Editor: Omar