die
IPA: dˈaɪ
noun
- The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
- A device for cutting into a specified shape.
- A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
- A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
- An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
- (semiconductors, plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
- Any small cubical or square body.
- An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
- (obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
- Obsolete spelling of dye [A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.]
- (derogatory, humorous) Initialism of diversity, inclusion, and equity. [The quality of being diverse or different; difference or unlikeness.]
verb
- (intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
- followed by of as an indication of direct cause; general use:
- followed by from as an indication of direct cause; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences:
- followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes:
- (now rare) followed by with as an indication of direct cause:
- (uncommon, nonstandard outside video games) followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from):
- (still current) followed by with as an indication of manner:
- (transitive) To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
- (video games, slang) To lose a game.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To yearn intensely.
- (intransitive, uncommon, idiomatic) To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
- (intransitive, colloquial, hyperbolic) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
- (intransitive, figurative, hyperbolic) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
- (intransitive, of a machine) To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".
- (intransitive, of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
- (intransitive, of a legislative bill or resolution) To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.
- To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
- To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
- (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
- (architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
- To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
- (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
- Obsolete spelling of dye [(transitive) To colour with dye, or as if with dye.]
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