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DYS/daɪs/

Dice are small cubes with numbered faces, used in games (one is a die; dice is usual as the plural): a pair of dice; roll the dice. This entry is the game sense, not the cooking verb “to dice”. Fair dice in the probability question still need the named sample space. Mix-up: dice vs dies; the food-cutting verb; do not write dice for a spinner with no cube in the source.

Meaning

Small cubes with numbered faces, used in games (one is a die; dice is usual as the plural).

Examples

• “Fair dice in the probability question still need the named sample space, the maths paper said.”
• “Loaded dice featured in the investigation, which is still a named bias — quote the frequencies if given.”

Good to know

a pair of dice; roll / throw the dice; a die (singular). Cooking verb: dice (cut into cubes) — not this sense. Trap: a spinner / dies. Maths and PE. Numbered cubes — name the sample space.

Near in meaning

die, cubes, game cubes

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