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- 1 per day not-comparable
"Clozapine 100 mg die a.m."
- 1 The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
- 2 An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and thrown in games of chance.
"Most dice are six-sided."
- 3 Obsolete spelling of dye. alt-of, obsolete
"He hath carried his friendship to this man to a blameable length, by too long concealing facts of the blackest die."
- 4 Initialism of diversity, inclusion, and equity. abbreviation, alt-of, derogatory, humorous, initialism, uncountable
- 5 a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers wordnet
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- 6 A device for cutting into a specified shape.
- 7 That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance. obsolete
"[…]For th'equall die of warre he well did know."
- 8 a device used for shaping metal wordnet
- 9 A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
- 10 a cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods wordnet
- 11 A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
- 12 An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
- 13 An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit. also, plural
"The number of dies per wafer is basically the area of the wafer divided by the area of the die."
- 14 Any small cubical or square body.
"Some young creatures have learnt their letters and syllables, and the pronouncing and spelling of words, by having them pasted or written upon many little flat tablets or dies."
- 1 To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. intransitive
"Returne with ſpeed, time paſſeth ſwift away, Our life is fraile, and we may dye to day."
- 2 Obsolete spelling of dye. alt-of, obsolete
"Also no dyer shall die any cloth, except he die the cloth and the list with one colour, without tacking any bulrushes or such like thing upon the lists, upon pain to forfeit 40 s. for every cloth. And no person shall put to sale any cloth deceitfully dyed,"
- 3 suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense) wordnet
- 4 To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.; followed by of as an indication of direct cause; general use intransitive
"He died of malaria."
- 5 disappear or come to an end wordnet
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- 6 To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.; followed by from as an indication of direct cause; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences intransitive
"He died from heart failure."
- 7 pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life wordnet
- 8 To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.; followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes intransitive
"He died for the one he loved."
- 9 stop operating or functioning wordnet
- 10 To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.; followed by with as an indication of direct cause archaic, intransitive
"Therefore let Benedicke like covered fire, / Consume away in sighes, waste inwardly: / It were a better death, to die with mockes, / Which is as bad as die with tickling."
- 11 lose sparkle or bouquet wordnet
- 12 To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.; followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from) intransitive, proscribed, sometimes
"I can't believe I just died to a turret!"
- 13 to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player wordnet
- 14 To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.; followed by with as an indication of manner intransitive
"She died with dignity."
- 15 cut or shape with a die wordnet
- 16 To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.; to die in a certain form. intransitive
"Will I die a happy man?"
- 17 be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame wordnet
- 18 To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death). transitive
"He died a hero's death."
- 19 languish as with love or desire wordnet
- 20 To lose or be eliminated from a game, particularly with a deathlike animation. slang
"Whenever my brother dies, he ragequits."
- 21 feel indifferent towards wordnet
- 22 To yearn intensely. figuratively, intransitive
"I'm really dying to eat in that new restaurant."
- 23 suffer or face the pain of death wordnet
- 24 To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead. idiomatic, intransitive, uncommon
"The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother."
- 25 To become spiritually dead; to lose hope. figuratively, intransitive
"He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him."
- 26 To be mortified or shocked by a situation. colloquial, excessive, intransitive
"If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die."
- 27 To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated. excessive, figuratively, intransitive
"When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died."
- 28 To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality". intransitive
"My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning."
- 29 To abort, to terminate (as an error condition). intransitive
- 30 To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote. intransitive
"The proposed gas tax died after the powerful rural senator refused to let it out of committee."
- 31 To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
"letting the secret die within his own breast"
- 32 To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
"But it came to passe in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone."
- 33 To become indifferent; to cease to be subject. often
"to die to pleasure or to sin"
- 34 To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
- 35 To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
- 36 To fail to evoke laughter from the audience. slang
"Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal..."
Etymology
From Middle English deyen, probably from Old Norse deyja, from Proto-Germanic *dawjaną (“to die”). Displaced native Old English sweltan, whence Modern English swelt, and Old English steorfan, whence modern starve.
From Middle English dee, from Old French de (Modern French dé), from Latin datum, from datus (“given”), the past participle of dō (“to give”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to lay out, to spread out”). Doublet of datum. Replaced Old English tasul, tesul (“die”), from Latin tessella (“die, cube”).
From Middle English dee, from Old French de (Modern French dé), from Latin datum, from datus (“given”), the past participle of dō (“to give”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to lay out, to spread out”). Doublet of datum. Replaced Old English tasul, tesul (“die”), from Latin tessella (“die, cube”).
Variant spelling.
Variant spelling.
Borrowed from Latin die (“[in a] day”), locative of Latin dies (“day”).
A jocular rearrangement of DEI, implying that such criteria will lead to a highly disastrous result.
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