Significado de dice em inglês

dice

/daɪs/ us

/daɪs/

plural dice

dice noun [C] (GAME)

(US also or old use die)

a small cube (= object with six equal square sides) with a different number of spots on each side, used in games involving chance:

We need two dice to play the game.

throw the dice You throw the dice and whoever gets the highest score goes first.

roll the dice

play dice

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[ U ]

any game involving chance in which dice are thrown:

Let's play dice.

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She was prepared to risk everything on a last throw of the dice.
Roman soldiers often passed the time playing board games, with dice and counters like these ones.

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dice noun [C] (PIECE)

a small square piece of something:

Cut the potatoes into small dice.

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Idiomas

no dice

roll the dice

dice

verb

/daɪs/ us

/daɪs/

dice verb (CUT)

C2 [ T ]

to cut food into small cubes (= solid shapes with six square sides):

Peel and dice the potatoes.

diced carrots

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dice verb (GAME)

dice with death mainly UK

to do something extremely dangerous and silly:

You're dicing with death driving at that speed on icy roads.

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diced

dicing

(Definição de dice do Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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dice

plural noun

/dɑɪs/

dice plural noun (GAME)

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two small cubes (= square, box-shaped solids) that are the same, each with a different number of spots on each of its six sides, used in games

dice

verb [ T ]

/dɑɪs/

dice verb [T] (CUT)

to cut food into small squares:

Peel and dice the carrots.

(Definição de dice do Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Exemplos de dice

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Given such a momentous increase in air traffic, is it not dicing with death to privatise air traffic control?

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To be crestfallen in this respect may very well be dicing, not just with the money of "big people".

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Things were so sliced up, diced up and repackaged that no one knew where the real risk was.

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At 100 ft and 500 mph the only response can be a reflex response, and reflexes can be developed otherwise than by dicing with death.

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They diced with death for money, and there is no excuse for that.

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I understand that five ambulance services and one fire brigade wear diced cap bands, but that these are of a different colour from those worn by the police.

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Talk about dicing with death.

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The first die represents the tens digit, and the second die the ones digit.

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