die

A pair of common dice with six sides each.

Meanings

To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
To yearn intensely.
To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
To stop working, to break down.
To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.
To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.

The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
A device for cutting into a specified shape.
A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
Any small cubical or square body.
An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.

From Middle English deyen, from Old English dīeġan and Old Norse deyja, both from Proto-Germanic *dawjaną ("to die"). Displaced Old English sweltan.
From Middle English dee, from Old French de (Modern French dé), from Latin datum, from datus, the past participle of dō, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- ("to lay out, to spread out"). datum.
Variant spelling.

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