dice
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Is dice a Scrabble word?
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- Wordle No
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) Gaming with one or more dice.Examples: "Or think of a decent young citizen in a toga—perhaps too much dice, you know—coming out here in the train of some prefect, or tax-gatherer, or trader even, to mend his fortunes."; "On the other hand, evolution is not a matter of chance, even in the sense in which a game of dice is a game of chance."; "I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice."uncountable
2. (countable, proscribed by some) A die.Examples: "1980, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, “The Winner Takes It All”, Super Trouper, Polar Music The gods may throw a dice / Their minds as cold as ice"; "A white house set like a dice on a rock already venerable with the scars of wind and water."; "When we see a dice, we see an object which has six sides, some of which can be seen from where we are, others can be seen if we twist it or move around it."countable
3. (uncountable, formerly countable, cooking) That which has been diced.Examples: "Cut onions, carrots and celery into medium dice."; "If your worship is inclined to take a small draught of good wine, though not very cool, I have here a calabash full of the best, and some dices of Tronchon cheese"uncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To play dice.Examples: "Virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times — a week"; "For Corinius, who gave not a fig for music or dirges, but liked well of carding and dicing, had brought forth his dice box to play with the son of Corund."; "Tyrion found Timmett dicing with his Burned Men in the barracks."intransitive
2. (transitive) To cut into small cubes.Examples: "And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan...."; "Dice the vegetables and heat in the double boiler with butter, pepper and salt."; "But as our urban lives have grown more pressed for time, we have diced our opportunity costs finer and finer; from budgeting days or slabs of hours, we have come to rationing minutes."transitive
3. (transitive) To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary