Dice are what you roll when you're playing Yahtzee or Monopoly; they are two cubes marked with dots on each side that represent the numbers one through six.
Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See
Noun
small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces; used to generate random numbers
Verb
play dice
Verb
cut into cubes; "cube the cheese"
n.
Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also,
the game played with dice. See Die, n.
v. i.
To play games with dice.
v. i.
To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.
pl.
of Die
Dice
Dice
I . . . diced not above seven times a week.2.
Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See
To play games with dice.
Usage Examples
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.
God does not play dice.
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.
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Other Usage ExamplesGod's dice always have a lucky roll.
It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.
We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.