dice
IPA: dˈaɪs
noun
- (uncountable) Gaming with one or more dice.
- 1990, Ivar Ekeland, Mathematics and the Unexpected, page 67:
- (countable, proscribed by some) A die.
- (uncountable, formerly countable, cooking) That which has been diced.
- A surname.
verb
- (intransitive) To play dice.
- (transitive) To cut into small cubes.
- (transitive) To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.
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Examples of "dice" in Sentences
- Patronage and rolling the dice is replaced by good old democracy.
- No basement geek would be worth his weight in dice without the orange glow on his fingers.
- The use of different dice is confusing at first but any kind of gamer gets it down pretty soon.
- ** "The best way to throw dice, is to throw them out." - advice written by an author who lived between 1835 and 1910
- My eyeballs just rolled on the floor like some dice of fate like some dice from a poker game being played in a sand castle
- The god he referred to when he said "God does not play dice" is the monist god: the laws governing clockwork and ping-pong balls.
- Rolling more city dice is good for more resources, but it increases your chances for getting really bad results (more than two skulls) as well.
- With respect to the larger culture Einstein's view of God and dice is a colorful reference to a non-scientific concept to make a philosophical scientific point even if it was subsequently shown erroneous.
- ‘Cold calling’ victims to effectively ask them if they found the whole experience of being a victim pleasant means the dice is always loaded towards a negative response, regardless of how good our service was.
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