Definition of Die

Die of Dice 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 suffer death; to lose life. To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc. To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin. To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away. To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor. 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. Any small cubical or square body. That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance. That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado. A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc. A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing. A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool. Related Definitions: Action, An, And, Animate, Another, Any, Are, As, At, Away, Base, Be, Become, Before, Being, Between, Block, Blow, Body, Box, By, Cause, Cease, Certain, Chance, Coining, Commonly, Composed, Connection, Cornice, Cube, Cubical, Curved, Cut, Dado, Dead, Death, Desired, Determined, Device, Dice, Die, Disappear, Discouragement, Disease, Drawing, Expire, Extinct, Extinguished, Face, Faint, Fire, Flat, For, Forging, Form, Forming, From, Give, Gradually, Grow, Games, Hardened, Hazard, Hollow, Horror, Imperceptible, Impress, In, Included, Indifferent, Internally, Irreparable, Is, It, Languish, Life, Lifeless, Liquor, Live, Lose, Loss, Lost, Love, Made, Make, Manner, Marked, Metal, Might, Object, Occasion, Of, Often, On, One, Or, Out, Pair, Part, Pass, Pedestal, Perforated, Perish, Piece, Pine, Plate, Playing, Pleasure, Pressure, Punch, Punching, Rarely, Recede, Said, Screw, Screw-Cutting, See, Separate, Several, Shaken, Shaped, Sheet, Sin, Sink, Six, Sloped, Small, So, Spiritless, Square, State, Steel, Striking, Subject, Such, Suffer, Surface, Sword, That, The, Thought, Threaded, Through, Throw, Thrown, To, Tool, Total, Up, Used, Vanish, Vapid, Vital, Weakness, Where, Which, With

Die Quotations Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. Buddha A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. Martin Luther King, Jr. If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. Martin Luther King, Jr. I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. Mother Teresa If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. Maya Angelou Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. Maya Angelou Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour. Thomas Jefferson Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. Abraham Lincoln With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. Abraham Lincoln

Die Translations die in Afrikaans is sterf die in Dutch is doodgaan, overlijden, sterven die in Finnish is kuolla die in German is sterben die in Italian is estinguersi die in Latin is defungo, intereo, abeo die in Portuguese is dado, morrer die in Spanish is expirar, morir