dice
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- noun
- /daɪs/
:
dado
- The players took turns to roll the dice and see who got the highest score.
- roll the dice
- a pair of dice
- loaded dice
Somebody else got the dice rolls that second year.
- Somebody else got the dice rolls that second year.
- So there's this thing called Chessix and they sell bags of dice at PAX.
- Now I have a lot of dice, but this is a whole nother level.
- I liken it to rolling the dice, right?
- We are conditioning on the event that the two dice land on different numbers.
- I love to inventing sports games, games with when you roll dice and you created this whole world.
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I'm going to roll dice and see what my challenge is.
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A short, skinny, unshaven man shook the dice in a round tin cup.
Fiction book (1996) -
But you will allow me to lose to you at dice and make up for it.
Fiction book (1993) -
Open the chest, hand out those dice to the other players.
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The dice are dancing on the table.
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So there are dice in these two rows.
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Soldiers could be seen gambling and rolling dice in the doorways of shops.
Academic text (2011) -
Egyptians played board games, and dice have been found in a 5,000-year-old tomb in what is now Iran.
Academic text (2010) -
At the game night, we used colorful dice to play various board games.
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She picked up the dice and shook them in her hands before tossing them onto the table.
Synonyms
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A small cube with one to six dots used in games
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Etymology
Dice for the small gaming cubes comes from Old French dé and Latin datum which means 'given'. The idea of a 'given' result fits how a throw decides a number by chance, so dice are the little cubes with dots used to get a number by chance.