Carve vs Dice - What's the difference?
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(archaic) To cut.
* Tennyson
To cut meat in order to serve it.
To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work.
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, chapter=1 (snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
(figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
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To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
* Shakespeare
(uncountable) Gaming with one or more dice.
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That which has been diced.
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To play dice.
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* 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 407:
To cut into small cubes.
To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.
As verbs the difference between carve and dice
is that carve is to cut while dice is to play dice.As nouns the difference between carve and dice
is that carve is a carucate while dice is plural of lang=en.carve
English
(Carving)Verb
- My good blade carved the casques of men.
- You carve the roast and I'll serve the vegetables.
- to carve a name into a tree
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citation, passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.}}
- who could easily have carved themselves their own food.
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- Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet.
Derived terms
* carver * carvery * carve out * carved in stone * carve up * carve-upAnagrams
* *dice
English
(wikipedia dice)Noun
(en-noun)- I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice .
- (Original: Jedenfalls bin ich überzeugt, dass der Alte nicht würfelt. December 4, 1926. Albert Einstein. Born-Einstein Letters. Trans. Irene Born. New York: Walker and Company, 1971.)
- The gods may throw a dice / Their minds as cold as ice
- Cut onions, carrots and celery into medium dice .
Usage notes
* The game of dice' is singular. Thus in "'''Dice''' is a game played with ' dice ," the first occurrence is singular, the second occurrence is plural. * Otherwise, the singular usage is considered incorrect by many authorities. However, it should be noted that The New Oxford Dictionary of English'', Judy Pearsall, Patrick Hanks (1998) states that “In modern standard English, the singular die (rather than dice''') is uncommon. ' Dice is used for both the singular and the plural.” * Die is predominant among tabletop gamers.Quotations
* (English Citations of "dice")Derived terms
* dicey * no dice * percentile dice * roll the diceVerb
(dic)- I diced not above seven times a week.
- Tyrion found Timmett dicing with his Burned Men in the barracks.