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Die (IPA: /ˈdaɪ/)


Die (pl. )

of Dice

Die (v. i.)

To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought.

Die (v. i.)

To suffer death; to lose life.

Die (v. i.)

To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.

Die (v. i.)

To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.

Die (v. i.)

To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.

Die (v. i.)

To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away.

Die (v. i.)

To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.

Die (v. i.)

To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.

Die (n.)

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.

Die (n.)

Any small cubical or square body.

Die (n.)

That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.

Die (n.)

That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado.

Die (n.)

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.

Die (n.)

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.

Die (n.)

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.

Die

Throwable object with multiple resting positions, used for generating random outcomes

Die

Naked single chip, microchip or semiconductor chip - e.g. transistor chip - or IC chip.

Die

Specialized tool for cutting or deforming

Die

Heraldic figure

Die

Commune in Drôme, France

Example Sentence (Quote)

" "Am I going to be crowned or not ?" she said icily. I've got to die a queen! It'd be terrible to be dead and common!"" - Discworld

Example Sentence (Quote)

" "Morituri Nolumus Mori - We who are about to die dont want to"" - Discworld

Example Sentence (Quote)

" (Fools) live poor to die rich." - English proverbs

Example Sentence (Quote)

"... deshalb ich diese als die Metaphysik des Volkes bezeichnet habe." - Arthur Schopenhauer

Example Sentence (Quote)

"... die Hoffnung: sie ist in Wahrheit das übelste der Ãœbel, weil sie die Qual der Menschen verlängert." - Friedrich Nietzsche


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