Dice : (noun)
1: small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces; used to generate
random numbers [syn: die]
(verb)
1: cut into cubes; "cube the cheese" [syn: cube]
2: play dice
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To turn one's coat, to change one's uniform or colors; to
go over to the opposite party.
To turn one's goods or money, and the like, to exchange
in the course of trade; to keep in lively exchange or
circulation; to gain or increase in trade.
To turn one's hand to, to adapt or apply one's self to; to
engage in.
To turn out.
(a) To drive out; to expel; as, to turn a family out of
doors; to turn a man out of office.
I'll turn you out of my kingdom. -- Shak.
(b) to put to pasture, as cattle or horses.
(c) To produce, as the result of labor, or any process of
manufacture; to furnish in a completed state.
(d) To reverse, as a pocket, bag, etc., so as to bring the
inside to the outside; hence, to produce.
(e) To cause to cease, or to put out, by turning a
stopcock, valve, or the like; as, to turn out the
lights.
To turn over.
(a) To change or reverse the position of; to overset; to
overturn; to cause to roll over.
(b) To transfer; as, to turn over business to another
hand.
(c) To read or examine, as a book, while, turning the
leaves. ``We turned o'er many books together.''
--Shak.
(d) To handle in business; to do business to the amount
of; as, he turns over millions a year. [Colloq.]
To turn over a new leaf. See under Leaf.
To turn tail, to run away; to retreat ignominiously.
To turn the back, to flee; to retreat.
To turn the back on or
upon, to treat with contempt; to reject or refuse
unceremoniously.
To turn the corner, to pass the critical stage; to get by
the worst point; hence, to begin to improve, or to
succeed.
To turn the die or dice, to change fortune.
To turn the edge or point of, to bend over the edge or
point of so as to make dull; to blunt.
To turn the head or brain of, to make giddy, wild,
insane, or the like; to infatuate; to overthrow the reason
or judgment of; as, a little success turned his head.
To turn the scale or balance, to change the
preponderance; to decide or determine something doubtful.
To turn the stomach of, to nauseate; to sicken.
To turn the tables, to reverse the chances or conditions of
success or superiority; to give the advantage to the
person or side previously at a disadvantage.
To turn tippet, to make a change. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
To turn to profit, advantage, etc., to make profitable or
advantageous.
To turn up.
(a) To turn so as to bring the bottom side on top; as, to
turn up the trump.
(b) To bring from beneath to the surface, as in plowing,
digging, etc.
(c) To give an upward curve to; to tilt; as, to turn up
the nose.
To turn upon, to retort; to throw back; as, to turn the
arguments of an opponent upon himself.
To turn upside down, to confuse by putting things awry; to
throw into disorder.
This house is turned upside down since Robin Ostler
died. --Shak.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Dice : \Dice\, n.; pl. of Die.
Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also,
the game played with dice. See Die, n.
Dice coal, a kind of coal easily splitting into cubical
fragments. --Brande & C.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Dice : \Dice\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Diced; p. pr. & vb. n.
Dicing.]
1. To play games with dice.
I . . . diced not above seven times a week. --Shak.
2. To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Die \Die\, n.; pl. in 1 and (usually) in 2, Dice (d[=i]s); in
4 & 5, Dies (d[=i]z). [OE. dee, die, F. d['e], fr. L. datus
given, thrown, p. p. of dare to give, throw. See Date a
point of time.]
1. 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.
2. Any small cubical or square body.
Words . . . pasted upon little flat tablets or dies.
--Watts.
3. That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the
die; hazard; chance.
Such is the die of war. --Spenser.
4. (Arch.) That part of a pedestal included between base and
cornice; the dado.
5. (Mach.)
(a) 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.
(b) 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.
(c) 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.
Cutting die (Mech.), a thin, deep steel frame, sharpened to
a cutting edge, for cutting out articles from leather,
cloth, paper, etc.
The die is cast, the hazard must be run; the step is taken,
and it is too late to draw back; the last chance is taken.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Dice, KY
Zip code(s): 41736
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