1. [n]  small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces; used to generate random numbers
2. [n]  a device used for shaping metal
3. [n]  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
4. [v]  suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense); "Whosoever..believes in me shall never die"
5. [v]  disappear or come to an end; "Their anger died"; "My secret will die with me!"
6. [v]  pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"
7. [v]  stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "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"
8. [v]  lose sparkle or bouquet, as of wine or beer; "pall" is an obsolete word
9. [v]  to be on base at the end of an inning, of a baseball player
10. [v]  cut or shape with a die; "Die out leather for belts"
11. [v]  be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame; "I was dying with embarrassment when my little lie was discovered"; "We almost died laughing during the show"
12. [v]  languish as with love or desire; "She dying for a cigarette"; "I was dying to leave"
13. [v]  feel indifferent towards; "She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery"
14. [v]  suffer or face the pain of death; "Martyrs may die every day for their faith"

1. \Die\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Died}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dying}.]
   [OE. deyen, dien, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. deyja; akin to
   Dan. d["o]e, Sw. d["o], Goth. diwan (cf. Goth. afd?jan to
   harass), OFries. d?ia to kill, OS. doian to die, OHG. touwen,
   OSlav. daviti to choke, Lith. dovyti to torment. Cf. {Dead},
   {Death}.]
   1. 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.
            To die by the roadside of grief and hunger.
                                                  --Macaulay.
            She will die from want of care.       --Tennyson.
   2. To suffer death; to lose life.
            In due time Christ died for the ungodly. --Rom. v.
                                                  6.
   3. To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or
      extinct; to be extinguished.
            Letting the secret die within his own breast.
                                                  --Spectator.
            Great deeds can not die.              --Tennyson.
   4. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness,
      discouragement, love, etc.
            His heart died within, and he became as a stone. --1
                                                  Sam. xxv. 37.
            The young men acknowledged, in love letters, that
            they died for Rebecca.                --Tatler.
   5. To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die
      to pleasure or to sin.
   6. To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to
      vanish; -- often with out or away.
            Blemishes may die away and disappear amidst the
            brightness.                           --Spectator.
   7. (Arch.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as
      where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
   8. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
   {To die in the last ditch}, to fight till death; to die
      rather than surrender.
            ``There is one certain way,'' replied the Prince
            [William of Orange] `` by which I can be sure never
            to see my country's ruin, -- I will die in the last
            ditch.''                              --Hume (Hist.
                                                  of Eng. ).
   {To die out}, to cease gradually; as, the prejudice has died
      out.
   Syn: To expire; decease; perish; depart; vanish.
   

2. \Die\, n.; pl. in 1 and (usually) in 2, {Dice} (d[=i]s); in
   4 & 5, {Dies} (d[=i]z). [OE. dee, die, F. d['e], fr. L. datus
   given, thrown, p. p. of dare to give, throw. See {Date} a
   point of time.]
   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.
            Words . . . pasted upon little flat tablets or dies.
                                                  --Watts.
   3. That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the
      die; hazard; chance.
            Such is the die of war.               --Spenser.
   4. (Arch.) That part of a pedestal included between base and
      cornice; the dado.
   5. (Mach.)
      (a) 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.
      (b) 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.
      (c) 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.
   {Cutting die} (Mech.), a thin, deep steel frame, sharpened to
      a cutting edge, for cutting out articles from leather,
      cloth, paper, etc.
   {The die is cast}, the hazard must be run; the step is taken,
      and it is too late to draw back; the last chance is taken.
   

1. crash. Unlike crash, which is used primarily of hardware, this verb is used of both hardware and software.

See also go flatline, casters-up mode.

2. Plural: dies. An unpackaged integrated circuit.

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