to dice

Examples

• All

• A girl's got to make a living," I told her, dicing garlic.

  Fiction book (1999)

• So we're going to just dice that up really fine.

• Is this better than having to dice up the garlic myself?

• I love that I can dice vegetables with exact precision.

  Dr. Mayim Bialik

• I was dicing an onion and crying when Victor entered the room.

  Fiction book (1998)

• So we have, we need to dice and peel the butternut squash.

• Don't you think that would be the simplest way to dice the beets?

  Fiction book (1992)

• The potatoes are boiled, diced, mixed with beaten eggs and cooked in a cast iron skillet.

  Stay (2020)

• Next you dice up, not chop up, some onions and some celery... and you mix 'em in real even so that... you don't get a big bite of onion or something when you're eating it.

  3 Women (1977)

• At the work table, the old cook, Leonne, diced a breadfruit while Rosalie cracked and cleaned earth crabs.

  Fiction book (2002)

Synonyms

C

to cube

vsto dice

5 3.3

To cut food into small square pieces

is used only when preparing food for cooking

Idioms

N

no dice

• Informal

9.7

Not possible or allowed

Compounds

D

dice cup

1 3.3

A small cup used to shake and throw dice in games

D

dice box

6.3

A small open container for shaking dice before rolling them

D

dice roll

4.7

A choice with an uncertain result that may be risky

T

throw of the dice

6.5

A decision that depends mostly on chance

How Fine

to mince

38 3.1

to dice

36 1.8

to chop

193 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology