Pronunce (6)
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/daɪ/
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[däɪ̯]
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[dɑj]
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[dɑe̯]
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[daɪ̯]
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[dəɪ̯]
Verbo
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
Uso- intransitivo
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Returne with ſpeed, time paſſeth ſwift away, Our life is fraile, and we may dye to day.
The cheeks drop in; the body bows; Man dies: nor is there hope in dust: […]
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. followed by of as an indication of direct cause; general use
Uso- intransitivo
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He died of malaria.
"What did she die of, Work'us?" said Noah. "Of a broken heart, some of our old nurses told me," replied Oliver[…].
Altri esempi (1)
In 1971 or 72, Mom's sister Carolyn Weimer died of breast cancer.
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. followed by from as an indication of direct cause; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences
Uso- intransitivo
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He died from heart failure.
She lived several weeks; but afterwards she died from epilepsy, to which malady she had been previously subject.
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"Or all of them will die from the plague. Even if most of the candidates succumb […]"
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes
Uso- intransitivo
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He died for the one he loved.
Altri esempi (1)
Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war.
Less than three days later, Johnson lapsed into a coma in his jail cell and died for lack of insulin.
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. followed by with as an indication of direct cause
Uso- arcaico
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Therefore let Benedicke like covered fire, / Consume away in sighes, waste inwardly: / It were a better death, to die with mockes, / Which is as bad as die with tickling.
And there were some who died with fevers, which at some seasons of the year was very frequent in the land.
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from)
Uso- intransitivo
- proscribed
- sometimes
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I can't believe I just died to a turret!
Altri esempi (1)
Dr Thomas concluded she had died to a blow to the head, which led to a bleed on the brain, probably a fall and had hit her head hard on the wooden bedpost, as there was blood on the bedpost.
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. followed by with as an indication of manner
Uso- intransitivo
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She died with dignity.
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. to die in a certain form.
Uso- intransitivo
- in bare form
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Will I die a happy man?
To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
Uso- transitivo
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He died a hero's death.
They died a thousand deaths.
Altri esempi (1)
[…] he chose instead to suffer even greater personal pain, with unimaginable fortitude and resolve, albeit for a shorter time. Thus he died a small death, in order to benefit the living. Similarly, a small and voluntary death was died by Socrates.
To lose or be eliminated from a game, particularly with a deathlike animation.
Uso- gergo
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Whenever my brother dies, he ragequits.
Of course, Nazis are not present in this game. Instead, we have animals that will try to cover you with dirt. As soon as you get too dirty, you will die.
Altri esempi (1)
Oh look, I just died.[…]I missed that jump again! That was dumb! Hey, I just died on the same freakin' Zinger.
To yearn intensely.
Uso- figurato
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I'm really dying to eat in that new restaurant.
I'm dying for a piss.
Altri esempi (2)
Yes, and his ill conditions; and in despite of all, dies for him.
I could see that he was dying, dying for a cigarette, dying for a fix maybe, dying for a little bit of freedom, but trapped in a hospital bed and a sick body.
To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
Uso- idiomatic
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- poco comune
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The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.
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"My dad […] beat us until we couldn't sit down." […] "What about your mother?" […] "She's alive. […] My aunt visits her once a year, but I don't ask about my mother. She died to me the day she chose my father over protecting us." Luke's voice hitched with emotion.
"You haven't been my son since you were ten years old. That boy died to me the day he ran away. I don't know you. You are merely a shell that resembles someone I used to know, but you are dead to me. You are the bringer of pain and death. Leave me be. Leave me with my son, Jyosh." "Mother..." Barlun pleaded.
To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
Uso- figurato
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He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.
Do you know that I went down / To the ground / Landed on both my broken-hearted knees... / […]I didn't even cry / 'Cause pieces of me had already died
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Made it out alive, but I think I lost it Said that I was fine, said it from the coffin Remember how I died when you started walking? That's my life, that's my life
To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
Uso- colloquiale
- excessive
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If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die.
To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
Uso- excessive
- figurato
- intransitivo
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When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died.
I literally died when I saw that.
To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".
Uso- intransitivo
- of a machine
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My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.
Sorry I couldn't call you. My phone died.
Altri esempi (1)
My battery died and my charger was at home.
To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
Uso- intransitivo
- of a computer program
To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.
Uso- intransitivo
- of a legislative bill or resolution
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The proposed gas tax died after the powerful rural senator refused to let it out of committee.
To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
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letting the secret die within his own breast
Great deeds cannot die.
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Through all the Worlds are sounds, the noises of moving, and the echoes of voices and song; but upon the River is no sound ever heard, for there all echoes die.
To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
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But it came to passe in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
When the truth is found to be lies / And all the joy within you dies / Don't you want somebody to love? / Don't you need somebody to love?
To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
Uso- often
- with "to"
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to die to pleasure or to sin
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.
Uso- gergo
- of a stand-up comedian or a joke
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Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...
Sostantivo
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.
Uso- also
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The number of dies per wafer is basically the area of the wafer divided by the area of the die.
Altri esempi (1)
Once the wafer has undergone the wafer-probe test, it is separated into individual dice by sawing or scribing and breaking. The dice are visually inspected, sorted, and readied for assembly into packages.
Any small cubical or square body.
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Some young creatures have learnt their letters and syllables, and the pronouncing and spelling of words, by having them pasted or written upon many little flat tablets or dies.
Sostantivo
An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and thrown in games of chance.
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Most dice are six-sided.
I rolled the die and moved 2 spaces on the board.
Altri esempi (5)
If a Dye were mark’d with one Figure or Number of Spots on four Sides, and with another Figure or Number of Spots on the two remaining Sides, ’twould be more probable, that the former ſhould turn up than the latter;
When you roll two dies—or three, or four—the odds of obtaining a specific number becomes complex in a logarithmic progression.
We roll two dies repeatedly until we get the first double.
Roll two dies 24 times. What is the probability of rolling at least one double 6?
When this creature enters the battlefield, roll a six-sided die. You gain life equal to the result.
That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
Uso- obsoleto
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[…]For th'equall die of warre he well did know.
Avverbio
per day
Uso- not-comparable
- Parole correlate
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Clozapine 100 mg die a.m.
Sostantivo
a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers
- Sinonimi
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a device used for shaping metal
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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
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Verbo
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
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- Contrari
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She died from cancer
The children perished in the fire
Altri esempi (2)
The patient went peacefully
The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102
suffer or face the pain of death
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Martyrs may die every day for their faith
be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame
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I was dying with embarrassment when my little lie was discovered
We almost died laughing during the show
stop operating or functioning
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The engine finally went
The car died on the road
Altri esempi (4)
The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town
The coffee maker broke
The engine failed on the way to town
her eyesight went after the accident
feel indifferent towards
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She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery
languish as with love or desire
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She's dying for a cigarette
I was dying to leave
cut or shape with a die
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Die out leather for belts
to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
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lose sparkle or bouquet
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wine and beer can pall
disappear or come to an end
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Their anger died
My secret will die with me!
suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense)
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Whosoever … believes in me shall never die