Definition of Die

1. Noun. A small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers.

Exact synonyms: Dice
Generic synonyms: Cube, Square Block
Specialized synonyms: Five, Five-spot, Four, Four-spot, One-spot, Six, Six-spot
Derivative terms: Dice, Dice

2. Verb. Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life. "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"

3. Noun. A device used for shaping metal.
Generic synonyms: Shaping Tool
Specialized synonyms: Stamp

4. Verb. Suffer or face the pain of death. "Martyrs may die every day for their faith"

5. Noun. A cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods.
Generic synonyms: Cutlery, Cutter, Cutting Tool

6. Verb. Be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame. "We almost died laughing during the show"
Generic synonyms: Break Down, Lose It, Snap

7. Verb. Stop operating or functioning. "These cars won't die "; "Her eyesight went after the accident"

8. Verb. Feel indifferent towards. "She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery"
Generic synonyms: Experience, Feel

9. Verb. Languish as with love or desire. "I was dying to leave"
Generic synonyms: Ache, Languish, Pine, Yearn, Yen

10. Verb. Cut or shape with a die. "Die out leather for belts"
Exact synonyms: Die Out
Generic synonyms: Cut Out

11. Verb. To be on base at the end of an inning, of a player.
Category relationships: Baseball, Baseball Game
Generic synonyms: Play

12. Verb. Lose sparkle or bouquet. "Wine and beer can pall"
Exact synonyms: Become Flat, Pall
Generic synonyms: Change

13. Verb. Disappear or come to an end. "The business is going to die "; "My secret will die with me!"
Generic synonyms: Disappear, Go Away, Vanish
Derivative terms: Death, Death, Dying

14. Verb. Suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense). "Whosoever..believes in me shall never die"
Category relationships: Faith, Religion, Religious Belief

Definition of Die

1. v. i. To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought.

2. n. A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice.

Definition of Die

1. Verb. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. ¹

2. Verb. (figuratively) To yearn intensely. ¹

3. Verb. (video games) To cause the death of a player character while controlling it. ¹

4. Verb. To be cut off by family or friends utterly, as if dead. ¹

5. Verb. (figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope. ¹

6. Verb. (colloquial) To be mortified or shocked by a situation. ¹

7. Verb. (of a machine) to stop working, to break down. ¹

8. Verb. (of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition). ¹

9. Noun. (''plural:'' dice) A polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance. ¹

10. Noun. (''plural:'' dies) The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth. ¹

11. Noun. (''plural:'' dies) A device for cutting into a specified shape. ¹

12. Noun. (''plural:'' dies) A mold for forming metal or plastic objects. ¹

13. Noun. (''plural:'' dies) An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals. ¹

14. Noun. (''plural:'' dice ''or'' dies) A fragment of a completed integrated circuit wafer, among those produced by fracturing the wafer as specified in its design, that includes a portion that (unless defective) can provide the electronic function for which it was designed, but whose further mechanical subdivision would irreversibly impair that function. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Die

1. to cut with a die (a device for shaping material) [v DIED, DIEING, DIES] / to cease living [v DIED, DYING, DIES]

Medical Definition of Die

1. 1. To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought. "To die by the roadside of grief and hunger." (Macaulay) "She will die from want of care." (Tennyson) 2. To suffer death; to lose life. "In due time Christ died for the ungodly." (Rom. V. 6) 3. To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished. "Letting the secret die within his own breast." (Spectator) "Great deeds can not die." (Tennyson) 4. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc. "His heart died within, and he became as a stone." (1 Sam. Xxv. 37) "The young men acknowledged, in love letters, that they died for Rebecca." (Tatler) 5. To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin. 6. To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; often with out or away. "Blemishes may die away and disappear amidst the brightness." (Spectator) 7. To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face. Synonym: To expire, decease, perish, depart, vanish. Origin: OE. Deyen, dien, of Scand. Origin; cf. Icel. Deyja; akin to Dan. Doe, Sw. Do, Goth. Diwan (cf. Goth. Afdjan to harass), OFries. Dia to kill, OS. Doian to die, OHG. Touwen, OSlav. Daviti to choke, Lith. Dovyti to torment. Cf. Dead, Death. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Die

didy
didya
didym
didym-
didymalgia
didymium
didymiums
didymo
didymosphenia geminata
didymous
didymus
didynamia
didynamies
didynamous
didynamy
die (current term)
die-cast
die-hard
die-hard(a)
die-off
die-offs
die-sinker
die away
die back
die down
die hard
die in the arse
die off
die on the vine

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