dice 
dice (dīs)
- small cubes of bone, plastic, etc. marked on each side with a different number of spots (from one to six) and used, usually in pairs, in games of chance
- a gambling game played with dice
- any small cubes, as of food
Etymology: ME dis, pl.: see die
transitive verb
- to lose by gambling with dice
- to cut (vegetables, etc.) into small cubes
- to mark with a pattern of cubes or squares; checker
no dice
Etymology: from a call in craps disallowing a throw
Informal- no: used in refusing a request
- no success, luck, etc.
dice
n.
no dice*
Converse of object
- roll: Roll the dice to move, then spin the spinner.
- throw: Throw a dice to discover which line is changing.
- toss: The game is played by tossing the dice from one end of the table to the other.
- shake: The pot returns to Olaf and he shakes the dice.
Adjective modifier
- six-sided: Probabilistic constraints To illustrate one type of stochastic program suppose that we have two six-sided dice.
- furry: The pictures don't show ant furry dice, I they still with the car?
- loaded: Loaded dice have weights inside them which favor the dice landing on the side with the weights.
- fluffy: Now don't get your fluffy dice in a twist.
- giant: Two giant inflatable dice are thrown to find out what parts of the body you have to... .
Modifies a noun
- shaker: There are fifteen white disks, fifteen black disks, two dice, two dice shakers and a doubling cube.
- roller: If so, Max Dice can help Does this mean the dice roller is " truly random " ?
- roll: The total of the dice roll is your maximum move in inches.
Noun used with modifier
- inflatable: Two giant inflatable dice are thrown to find out what parts of the body you have to... .
Un coup de de¤ s n'abolira jamais le hasard. A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.
The dice of God are always loaded.
Jedenfalls bin ich u« berzeugt, dass der nicht wu« rfelt. Anyway, I am sure that he [God] does not play dice. See Hawking 385:31.
God not only plays dice. He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen. See Einstein 301:32.
The heraldic equivalent of a pair of furry dice bouncing around in the back of a state coach.
If the iron dice roll, may God help us.
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