Die
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. # Followed by of. General use. #* 1839, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, Penguin 1985, p. 87: #*: "What did she die of, Work'us?" said Noah. "Of a broken heart, some of our old nurses told me," replied Oliver. #* 2000, Stephen King, On Writing, Pocket Books 2002, p. 85: #*: In 1971 or 72, Mom's sister Carolyn Weimer died of breast cancer. # Followed by from. General use, though somewhat more common in medical or scientific contexts. #* 1865, British Medical Journal, 4 Mar 1865, p. 213: #*: She lived several weeks; but afterwards she died from epilepsy, to which malady she had been previously subject. #* 2007, Frank Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Sandworms of Dune, Tor 2007, p. 191: #*: "Or all of them will die from the plague. Even if most of the candidates succumb. . ." # Followed by for. Often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes. #* 1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Simon & Schuster 1999, p. 232: #*: Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. #* 2003, Tara Herivel & Paul Wright (Eds.), Prison Nation, Routledge 2003, p. 187: #*: Less than three days later, Johnson lapsed into a coma in his jail cell and died for lack of insulin. # Followed by with. Now rare as indicating direct cause. #* 1600, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, Scene 1: #*: 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. #* 1830, Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon, Richards 1854, p. 337: #*: And there were some who died with fevers, which at some seasons of the year was very frequent in the land. To be cut off from family or friends. To become spiritually dead; to lose hope. To be mortified or shocked by a situation. to stop working, to break down.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: (plural: dice) A polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance. (plural: dies) The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth. (plural: dies) A device for cutting into a specified shape. (plural: dies) A mold for forming metal or plastic objects. (plural: dies) An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals. (plural: dice or dies) A fragment of a completed integrated circuit wafer, among those produced by fracturing the wafer as specified in its design, that includes a portion that (unless defective) can provide the electronic function for which it was designed, but whose further mechanical subdivision would irreversibly impair that function.
Example sentence: Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.
Dice
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Gaming with one or more dice.I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.An alternative singular of die when the plural is dice.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To cut into small cubes.
Example sentence: God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.