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dice1 noundice2 verb dicedice1 /daɪs/ ●○○ noun (plural dice)   dice1Origin: 1300-1400 Plural of ➔ DIE1 - Cut the potatoes into ½" dice.
- But Dole had little choice but to roll the dice in a way that surprised even the most astute political observers.
- Cut cornbread into 1 / 2 inch dice to measure 7 cups; set aside.
- I thought the room was a dice.
- If you roll a misfire when you roll the first dice the cannon has literally misfired and may explode.
- Roll the artillery dice for each shot.
- Use a scatter dice to determine which direction he moves in.
preparing food► grate to cut cheese, carrot etc into small pieces by rubbing it against a special tool: · Grate the cheese and sprinkle it over the top of the pasta. ► melt to make butter, chocolate etc become liquid: · Melt the butter, chocolate, and 1 teaspoon of cream over a low heat. ► sieve British English, sift American English to put flour or other powders through a sieve (=tool like a net made of wire, which you use for removing larger grains or pieces): · Sift the flour and cocoa before adding to the rest of the mixture. ► chop to cut something into pieces, especially using a big knife: · Chop up the vegetables. ► dice to cut vegetables or meat into small square pieces: · Dice the carrots and then fry them in butter. ► season to add salt, pepper etc to food: · Season the meat before grilling. ► crush to use a lot of force to break something such as seeds into very small pieces or into a powder: · Add one clove of crushed garlic. ► mix to combine different foods together: · Mix together all the ingredients in one bowl. ► beat/whisk to mix food together quickly with a fork or other tool: · Whisk the egg whites until they form soft peaks. ► stir to turn food around with a spoon: · Stir the sauce gently to prevent burning. ► fold something in to gently mix another substance into a mixture: · Fold in the beaten egg whites. ► knead to press dough (=a mixture of flour and water) many times with your hands when you are making bread: · Knead the dough for ten minutes, until smooth. ► drizzle to slowly pour a small amount of a liquid onto something: · Drizzle with olive oil. ► let something stand to leave something somewhere, before you do something else with it: · Let the mixture stand for a couple of hours so that it cools naturally. ► serve to put different foods together as part of a meal: · Serve with rice and a salad.· Serve the aubergines on a bed of lettuce. ► Gamesboard, nouncatch, nouncat's cradle, nouncold, adjectiveconsolation prize, noundice, noundie, noundraw, verbfollow-my-leader, nounfriendly, noungame, noungyroscope, nounhome, nounhoopla, nounhopscotch, nounjigsaw, nounjump rope, nounmahjong, nounplayground, nounpoint, nounretire, verbroll, verbroll, nounRussian roulette, nounscoreboard, nounscorecard, nounshaker, nountag, nountiddlywinks, nountreasure hunt, nountrick, nountrivia, nounwarm, adjective ► throw/roll the dice It’s your turn to roll the dice. a last desperate throw of the dice to try and win his wife back ► dice potatoes (=cut them into small square pieces) VERB► play· He found Zacco lightly intoxicated, and playing dice for high stakes among a circle of friends.· Richard and I used to play with the dice at school.· He drove right, and then, playing his last dice, hit his second into the bunker.· They whiled away the time, Ranulf playing dice against himself, the only time he ever lost. ► roll· If you roll a misfire when you roll the first dice the cannon has literally misfired and may explode.· But Dole had little choice but to roll the dice in a way that surprised even the most astute political observers.· Now roll the artillery dice again.· I envy them for getting to roll the dice.· The Staff of Volans has a limited supply of magic energy. Roll a dice after each spell is cast.· Mark the point where the cannon ball strikes the ground and roll the Artillery dice to establish the bounce distance.· Align Helblaster on target and measure range. 2. Roll the artillery dice for each barrel you wish to fire.· To determine how far the ball bounces roll the Artillery dice again and mark the spot where the ball comes to land. ► throw· They would go to a hospital where they would throw a dice.· In Arabia they throw the dice in the other direction.· It's got to be better than throwing the dice and then having amnio and maybe aborting.· I shook it loosely and quickly and threw the dice. ► the dice are loaded► no dice- I asked if I could borrow the car, but she said no dice.
- LeVan says no dice, at least so far.
- Ring processing then, and tell them no dice.
1 [countable] (also die) a small block of wood, plastic etc that has six sides with a different number of spots on each side, used in gamesthrow/roll the dice It’s your turn to roll the dice.2[uncountable] any game of chance that is played with dice3the dice are loaded the situation is arranged so that a particular person will win or gain an advantage4no dice especially American English old-fashioned spoken used to refuse to do something or to say that something is not possible: ‘Can I borrow some cash?’ ‘Sorry, no dice.’5a throw of the dice something you do that you hope will have an effect on a situation, but is not certain to do so: a last desperate throw of the dice to try and win his wife backdice1 noundice2 verb dicedice2 verb VERB TABLEdice |
| Present | I, you, we, they | dice | | he, she, it | dices | | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | diced | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have diced | | he, she, it | has diced | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had diced | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will dice | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have diced |
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| Present | I | am dicing | | he, she, it | is dicing | | you, we, they | are dicing | | Past | I, he, she, it | was dicing | | you, we, they | were dicing | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been dicing | | he, she, it | has been dicing | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been dicing | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be dicing | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been dicing |
- Dice the potatoes and cook them in salted water.
- And some have diced with death to make Bond look good.
- He was struggling with an anger so black it made him tremble as he diced the eggs for potato salad.
► cut to divide something into two or more pieces, especially using a knife or scissors: · Do you want me to cut the cake?· He cut off the lower branches. ► snip to quickly cut something, especially using scissors: · I snipped the label off.· The hairdresser snipped away at her hair. ► slit to make a long narrow cut through something, especially using a knife: · He slit the envelope open with a penknife.· She slit through the plastic covering. ► slash to cut something quickly and violently with a knife, making a long thin cut: · Someone had slashed the tyres on his car.· He tried to slash his wrists. ► saw to cut wood, using a saw (=a tool with a row of sharp points): · Saw the wood to the correct length. ► chop to cut wood, vegetables, or meat into pieces: · Bill was outside chopping up firewood with an axe.· They chopped down the old tree.· finely chopped onion ► slice to cut bread, meat, or vegetables into thin pieces: · I’ll slice the cucumber.· Slice the bread thinly. ► dice to cut vegetables or meat into small square pieces: · First dice the apple into cubes. ► grate to cut cheese or a hard vegetable by rubbing it against a special tool: · Grate the cheese and sprinkle it over the vegetables. ► peel to cut the outside part off something such as a potato or apple: · I peeled the potatoes and put them in a saucepan. ► carve to cut thin pieces from a large piece of meat: · Uncle Ray carved the turkey. ► mow to cut the grass in a garden, park etc: · A gardener was mowing the lawn. ► trim (also clip) to cut a small amount off something, especially to make it look neater: · He was trimming his beard.· Trim the excess fat off the meat. to cut food ► cut · Do you want me to cut the cake?cut something into pieces/chunks · Cut the fish into four pieces and serve hot or warm. ► chop/chop up to cut something such as vegetables or meat into small pieces when you are preparing a meal: · Chop two onions for the stew.· Elsa was in the kitchen chopping up vegetables.chop something into pieces/chunks/cubes: · Could you chop the eggplant into cubes for me? ► slice to cut food such as bread, meat, or vegetables into thin flat pieces: · Wash and slice the mushrooms. ► carve to cut a large piece of cooked meat into pieces: · You start carving while I fetch the vegetables.· Who's going to carve the turkey? ► mince British /grind American to cut raw meat into very small pieces, usually in a machine: · Mince the meat and mix in the remaining ingredients. ► grate to cut cheese or vegetables into small thin pieces by rubbing them against a metal surface with holes in it: · I always like to grate some cheese over the potatoes before serving them. ► shred to cut food, especially vegetables with leaves, into long thin pieces: · Remove the outside leaves and shred the cabbage finely. ► dice to cut food, especially raw vegetables, into small square pieces: · Dice the potatoes and cook them in salted water. to do something that may hurt or kill you► risk your life to do something very dangerous, especially in order to help someone, when you know that you may get killed because of your action: · Every day firefighters risk their lives in the course of their duty.risk your life to do something: · She risked her life to save the drowning child. ► at your own risk if you do something at your own risk , you must accept that it is dangerous and that it is your own fault if you are injured or killed: · Anyone who swims in this part of the river does it at their own risk. ► risk your neck informal to do something very dangerous in order to help someone - use this especially when you think the action is unnecessary: · Don't do it. It's not worth risking your neck.risk your neck to do something: · "Come back!" Ned shouted. "You can't risk your neck to save a dog!" ► play with fire to do something that could have a very dangerous or harmful result: · Failure to stick to the safety rules is simply playing with fire.· These men are criminals. If you get involved with them, you'll be playing with fire. ► take your life in your hands informal to put yourself in a situation in which you may get killed, especially when it is a situation which you cannot control: · The teenager took his life in his hands in trying to avoid being caught by police.· You'll be taking your life in your hands if you let Eric drive you home! ► dice with death to deliberately do something that is so dangerous that you may easily get killed, especially when you do it for excitement: · When young people experiment with drugs, they're dicing with death. ► at your peril formal if you warn someone that they do something at their peril , you mean that it would be very dangerous for them to do it: · Any climber who neglects these simple precautions does so at their peril.· Ignore this warning at your peril. ► Cookingallspice, nounbake, verbbarbecue, verbbaste, verbblanch, verbboil, verbbottle, verbbouillon cube, nounbraise, verbbreadcrumbs, nounbreaded, adjectivebrine, nounbroil, verbbrown, verbbutter, verbcandied, adjectivecaper, nouncaramel, nouncardamom, nouncarve, verbcasserole, nouncasserole, verbcaster sugar, nouncharbroil, verbchervil, nounchestnut, nounchicory, nounchill, verbchilli powder, nounchip, verbcilantro, nouncinnamon, nounclean, verbclove, nouncochineal, nouncoconut, nouncook, verbcook, nouncookbook, nouncookery, nouncookery book, nouncordon bleu, adjectivecore, verbcoriander, nouncream, verbcrisp, verbcube, verbculinary, adjectivecumin, nouncurry powder, noundeep fry, verbdessertspoon, noundevilled, adjectivedice, verbdone, adjectivedress, verbessence, nounfat, nounflambé, adjectiveflan, nounflavouring, nounflour, nounflour, verbfrost, verbfrosting, nounfry, verbglaze, verbglaze, noungourmet, adjectivegourmet, noungrate, verbgrease, noungrease, verbgreaseproof paper, noungrill, verbgrill, noungrind, verbgut, verbhard-boiled, adjectivehaute cuisine, nounhob, nounhull, verbhusk, verbice, verbicebox, nounicing, nounicing sugar, nouningredient, nounjoint, verbknead, verblard, nounlard, verbleaven, nounliquidize, verbmarinade, nounmarinate, verbmarjoram, nounmicrowave, verbmince, verbmincer, nounmint, nounmix, verbmix, nounnouvelle cuisine, nounnutmeg, nounoil, nounolive oil, nounoverdone, adjectiveparboil, verbpare, verbpickle, verbpipe, verbpit, verbpitted, adjectivepkt, pluck, verbplum tomato, nounpoach, verbprecooked, adjectivepreheat, verbprep, verbprove, verbrecipe, nounreduce, verbrice paper, nounrind, nounrise, verbroast, verbroast, nounroast, adjectiverosemary, nounroux, nounsaffron, nounsage, nounsalt, nounsalt, verbsauce, nounsausage meat, nounsauté, verbsavory, nounscalloped, adjectivesear, verbseason, verbseasoning, nounself-raising flour, nounself-rising flour, nounsesame, nounshell, verbshortening, nounshort-order cook, nounshuck, verbsieve, verbsift, verbsifter, nounsimmer, verbsimmer, nounskewer, verbsmoke, verbsoak, verbsoda, nounsodium bicarbonate, nounspice, nounspice, verbspicy, adjectivestarch, nounsteam, verbsteep, verbstew, verbstock, nounstone, verbstrain, verbstuff, verbstuffing, nounsunny-side up, adjectivesweat, verbsweet-and-sour, adjectiveTabasco, nountandoori, adjectivetarragon, nountbsp, teaspoon, nountenderize, verbtenderloin, nountextured vegetable protein, nounthaw, verbthyme, nountimer, nountoast, nountoast, verbtoss, verbtruss, verbtsp, turmeric, noununderdone, adjectivevinaigrette, nounvinegar, nounwhip, verbwhisk, verbyeast, nounzap, verbzest, noun ► dice potatoes (=cut them into small square pieces) ADVERB► finely· Deseed the peppers, dice finely and place in a bowl.· Discard stems and finely dice caps. NOUN► death· But every day hundreds of ordinary workers dice with death to complete these essential tasks.· Towing drivers are dicing with death, too.· And some have diced with death to make Bond look good. ► pepper· Creamy Bakes - cream cheese, hardboiled egg, chives and diced red pepper mixed with mayonnaise. 4.· Waistliner - combine cottage cheese, diced red pepper and sweetcorn. 7. VERB► slice· Mostly chopping and cutting, slicing and dicing. ► dice with death- When young people experiment with drugs, they're dicing with death.
- And some have diced with death to make Bond look good.
- But every day hundreds of ordinary workers dice with death to complete these essential tasks.
- Towing drivers are dicing with death, too.
1 (also dice something ↔ up) [transitive] to cut food into small square pieces: diced carrots► see thesaurus at cut2dice with death to put yourself in a very dangerous situation |