meaning of dietz
1. 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.
2. Any small cubical or square body.
3. That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
4. That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. To suffer death; to lose life.
10. To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.
11. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
12. To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.
13. To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away.
14. To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
15. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
16. of Dice
17. die 1.
18. small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces; used to generate random numbers
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