die
noun
- throwable object with multiple resting positions, used for generating random outcomes
- naked single chip, microchip or semiconductor chip - e.g. transistor chip - or IC chip.
- specialized tool for cutting or deforming
verb
- to perish
- (semi modal) "dying to": to want or long to, keenly or desperately
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /daɪ/ / [däɪ̯] / [dɑj]
adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin die (“[in a] day”), locative of Latin dies (“day”).
- per day
“Clozapine 100 mg die a.m.”
noun
Etymology: Variant spelling.
- 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.”
verb
Etymology: Variant spelling.
- Obsolete spelling of dye.
“Also no dyer shall die any cloth, except he die the cloth and the list with one colour, without tacking any bulrushes or such like thing upon the lists, upon pain to forfeit 40 s. for every cloth. And no person shall put to sale any cloth deceitfully dyed,”
“To die wool with madder, prepare a fresh liquor, and when the water is come to a heat to bear the hand, put in half a pound of the finest grape madder for each pound of wool;”