dice vs die
Definitions
verb
- play dice
- cut into cubes
noun
- a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers
Examples
The Staff of Volans has a limited supply of magic energy. Roll a dice after each spell is cast.
Both groups are forced to suffer the prejudices that have been fuelled by the tabloids and absorbed by an uninformed public.
We encounter a patient with recurrent jaundice resulting from tumor ingrowth to the metallic stent.
Definitions
verb
- languish as with love or desire
- cut or shape with a die
- be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame
- lose sparkle or bouquet
- suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense)
noun
- a device used for shaping metal
- 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
- a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers
Examples
My generation was raised on a diet of stultifyingly tedious, but worthy accounts of embryology, typically very badly printed on what appeared to be rice paper.
I have to find grass and bring it up to them, otherwise they'll die.
By adding the chlorides of strontian, uranium, potassium, sodium, iron, or copper to the liquid, various effects may be produced, and these bodies will be found to produce the same color on the plate that their flame gives to alcohol.
