dice

Also used as

dice is also the plural of die.

dice meaning in Malay and Vietnamese

Examples of dice in a sentence

• I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.1971, Albert Einstein, Max Born, Hedwig Born. Irene Born (tr.), The Born-Einstein Letters, page 91:
• The problem is that no one can throw a die twice in precisely the same way, and this is why dice is a game of chance and not a skill.1990, Ivar Ekeland, Mathematics and the Unexpected, page 67:
• 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.2009, Hubert L. Dreyfus, Mark A. Wrathall, A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism, page 106:
• 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.2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:

All 40 example sentences with dice

Synonyms of dice

• astragals

Forms of dice

Past tense of dice: diced

Plural of dice: dice or dices

Origin of dice

From Middle English dys, plural of dy. See the etymology of die (etymology 2) for further information. The voiceless /s/ was most likely retained because the word felt like a collective term rather than a plural form (compare pence), and the spelling dice is a result of the pronunciation.

Words formed from dice

• Sørensen-Dice index
• bale of dice
• diceboard
• dice box
• dicebox
• dice-box
• dice coal
• dice divination
• dice game
• dice girl
• diceless
• dicelike
• dicemaker
• diceman
• dice mechanic
• dice oracle
• diceplay
• dice roll
• dice run
• dice shaker
• dice snake
• dice tower
• diceware
• dicey
• drugstore dice
• Efron's dice
• electric dice
• fuzzy dice
• God does not play dice
• God does not play dice with the universe
• let the dice fall where they may
• liar dice
• liar's dice
• loaded dice
• no dice
• pass-dice
• percentage dice
• percentile dice
• Poker Dice
• precision dice
• roll of the dice
• roll the dice
• throw of the dice
• dice up
• dice with death
• slice and dice

Phrases with dice

• dice runs
• dice board
• dice boxes
• dice games
• dice girls
• dice rolls
• dice snakes
• dice towers
• dice oracles
• dice shakers
• bales of dice
• doubling dice

Words that rhyme with dice

• slice
• ice
• nice
• device
• rice
• sacrifice
• spice
• advice
• Brice
• splice
• on ice
• price

Questions about dice

What does dice mean?

Dice means gaming with one or more dice.

What is dice in Malay?

Dice in Malay is potong dadu. See Dice meaning in Malay.

How do you use dice in a sentence?

I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.

What part of speech is dice?

Dice can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.

How do you pronounce dice?

Dice is pronounced /daɪs/.

What is the plural of dice?

The plural of dice is dice.