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单词 dice
释义

dicen.

Forms: see die n.1
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: English dice , die n.1
Etymology: < dice, plural form (and in later use also variant singular form) of die n.1 (see discussion at that entry).
(properly plural): see die n.1 and in compounds such as dice-box n., dice-play n., etc.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

dicev.

Brit. /dʌɪs/, U.S. /daɪs/
Etymology: < dice, plural of die n.1
1.
a. intransitive. To play or gamble with dice. In extended use (figurative): to take great risks, esp. in to dice with death. Frequently in Motoring contexts.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > face danger [verb (intransitive)] > risk oneself > run or take risks
dicec1440
to put one's finger in the fire1546
hazardc1550
venture1560
to jeopard a joint1563
to venture a joint1570
to run (also take) a (also the) risk (also risks)1621
danger1672
risk1767
gamble1802
to ride a tiger1902
to stick (also put) one's neck out1926
to lead with one's chin1949
to tickle the dragon('s tail)1964
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > play at dice [verb (intransitive)]
taveleOE
dicec1440
rifle1590
to shake the elbow1705
jeff1837
to touch ivory1864
to roll (the, them) bones1891
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 121 Dycyn, or pley wythe dycys, aleo.
1519 Presentments of Juries in Surtees Misc. (1890) 32 Latt no manservauntes dysse nor carde in ther howsses.
1548 H. Latimer Notable Serm. sig. B.iiiiv Thei hauke, they hunt, thei card, they dyce.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. iii. 15 I was..vertuous enough, swore little, dic't not aboue seuen times a weeke. View more context for this quotation
1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 253 If th' old man dice, th' heire in long coats will doe The like.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 97 The Dick Talbot who had diced and revelled with Grammont.
figurative.1941 Prince Chula Chakrabongse Dick Seaman xiv. 357 Racing motorists usually referred to driving in a race as either ‘cracking’ or ‘dicing’, the latter word having been derived from the journalists' former habit of writing about their being ‘speed demons dicing with death’.1969 Observer 23 Mar. (Colour Suppl.) 24/1 On the M1 or the M4 a lot of them try to dice with us... You'll get the bod who will come up behind you, an Aston Martin, a Sprite, a Mini Cooper, and they'll be flashing their lights to get by you.1971 Daily Tel. 29 Jan. 3/8 [He] had been ‘dicing’ along the road with the driver of another car. They were trying to ‘carve each other up’ after a motoring incident a mile away.
b. transitive. To lose or throw away by dicing; to gamble away. Also figurative.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > play at dice [verb (transitive)] > lose by dicing
dice1549
1549 [implied in: H. Latimer 6th Serm. before Edward VI (Arb.) 161 Dysynge howses also..where yong Gentlemenne dyse away their thrifte. (at dicing-house n.)].
1618 N. Field Amends for Ladies i. i. sig. A3v Haue I to dice my patrimony away.
1871 T. Taylor Jeanne Darc ii. i How cheerily a king and kingdom May be diced, danced, and fiddled to the dogs!
1881 J. S. Blackie Lay Serm. i. 79 The conscript boy, torn from his father..to dice away his sweet young life in a cause with which he has no concern.
c. transitive. To bring by dice-play (into, out of, etc.).
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1843 T. B. Macaulay Addison in Ess. (1889) 721 When he diced himself into a spunging house.
d. To reject, throw away; to leave alone. Australian slang.
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1945 L. Glassop We were Rats i. i. 5 It's me name, but it's too cissy, so I dices it and picks up ‘Mick’.
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned xxii. 214 I'll dice it—for now.
2. To cut into dice or cubes: esp. in cookery.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > general preparation processes > perform general preparation processes [verb (transitive)] > cut in small pieces
shredc1386
dice?c1390
sippet1689
mumble1728
?c1390 Forme of Cury in Warner's Culin. Antiq. 5 Take Funges [mushrooms], and pare hem clene, and dyce hem.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 121 Dycyn, as men do brede, or other lyke, quadro.
1771 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. Housekeeper (ed. 2) App. 363 Make a ragoo of oysters and sweet-breads diced.
3. To mark or ornament with a pattern of cubes or squares; to chequer; spec. (a) (Needlework) (see quot. 1808-80); (b) (Bookbinding) to ornament (leather) with a pattern consisting of squares or diamonds: see diced adj. 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > pattern [verb (transitive)] > geometric
diaperc1400
chevron1543
diaprize1626
chequer1633
dice1694
check1798
herringbone1887
1694 J. Clayton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 126 The young Ones [snakes] have no Rattles..but they may be known..being very regularly diced or checker'd, black and gray on the backs.
1808–80 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Dice, 1. Properly, to sew a kind of waved pattern near the border of a garment..2. To weave in figures resembling dice.
4. To mark with spots or pips, like dice. Obsolete.
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1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 8 The Butter Fly. The eye is large and globular, diced or bespeck'd here and there with black spots.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

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