die

verb
/daɪ//däɪ̯/UK/daɪ̯/CA

Etymology

From Middle English dee, from Old French de (Modern French dé), from Latin datum, from datus (“given”), the past participle of dō (“to give”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to lay out, to spread out”). Doublet of datum. Replaced Old English tasul, tesul (“die”), from Latin tessella (“die, cube”).

  1. derived from *deh₃-
  2. derived from datum
  3. derived from de
  4. inherited from dee

Definitions

  1. To stop living

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

    • 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: […]
  2. To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).

    • He died a hero's death.
    • They died a thousand deaths.
  3. To lose or be eliminated from a game, particularly with a deathlike animation.

    • 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.
    • Oh look, I just died.[…]I missed that jump again! That was dumb! Hey, I just died on the same freakin' Zinger.
  4. + 26 more definitions
    1. To yearn intensely.

      • I'm really dying to eat in that new restaurant.
      • I'm dying for a piss.
      • Yes, and his ill conditions; and in despite of all, dies for him.
    2. To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.

      • The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.
    3. To become spiritually dead

      To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.

      • 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
      • 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
    4. To be mortified or shocked by a situation.

      • If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die.
    5. To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.

      • 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.
    6. To stop working

      To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".

      • My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.
      • Sorry I couldn't call you. My phone died.
      • My battery died and my charger was at home.
    7. To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).

    8. To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a…

      To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.

      • The proposed gas tax died after the powerful rural senator refused to let it out of committee.
    9. To perish

      To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.

      • letting the secret die within his own breast
      • Great deeds cannot die.
      • 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.
    10. To sink

      To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.

      • 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?
    11. To become indifferent

      To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.

      • to die to pleasure or to sin
    12. To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or…

      To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.

    13. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.

    14. To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.

      • Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...
    15. The cubical part of a pedestal

      The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.

    16. A device for cutting into a specified shape.

    17. A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a…

      A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)

    18. A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.

    19. An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.

    20. An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an…

      An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.

      • The number of dies per wafer is basically the area of the wafer divided by the area of the die.
      • 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.
    21. Any small cubical or square body.

      • 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.
    22. An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and thrown…

      An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and thrown in games of chance.

      • Most dice are six-sided.
      • I rolled the die and moved 2 spaces on the board.
      • 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;
    23. That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die

      That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.

      • […]For th'equall die of warre he well did know.
    24. Obsolete spelling of dye.

      • He hath carried his friendship to this man to a blameable length, by too long concealing facts of the blackest die.
    25. per day

      • Clozapine 100 mg die a.m.
    26. Initialism of diversity, inclusion, and equity.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at die. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at die. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at die

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA