Dice (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

plural noun, singular die.
  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.
  4. any small cubes.
  5. 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), diced,dic·ing.
  1. to cut into small cubes.
  2. to decorate with cubelike figures.
  3. to lose by gambling with dice (often followed by away).
verb (used without object), diced,dic·ing.
  1. to play at dice.
  2. to cause or bring about by gambling with dice.
  3. to duel with another car or cars in a dice.
Idioms
  1. of no use or help; ineffective.
pl n
  1. cubes of wood, plastic, etc, each of whose sides has a different number of spots (1 to 6), used in games of chance and in gambling to give random numbers
  2. one of these cubes
  3. small cubes as of vegetables, chopped meat, etc
  4. an expression of refusal or rejection
verb
  1. to cut (food, etc) into small cubes
  2. to gamble with or play at a game involving dice
  3. to take a chance or risk (esp in the phrase dice with death)
  4. to abandon or reject
  5. to decorate or mark with dicelike shapes
Dice (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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