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Dice vs Barbotte - What's the difference?

dice | barbotte |

As nouns the difference between dice and barbotte

is that dice is while barbotte is a canadian dice game akin to craps.

As a verb dice

is to play dice.

dice

English

(wikipedia dice)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (uncountable) Gaming with one or more dice.
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  • * 1972 , (translation), Einstein: The Life and Times , Avon Books
    • 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.)
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  • * 1980 , Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, “The Winner Takes It All”, Super Trouper , Polar Music
    • The gods may throw a dice / Their minds as cold as ice
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  • That which has been diced.
    • Cut onions, carrots and celery into medium dice .
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    • 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 dice

    Verb

    (dic)
  • To play dice.
  • * (rfdate) (Shakespeare)
    • I diced not above seven times a week.
  • * 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 407:
    • Tyrion found Timmett dicing with his Burned Men in the barracks.
  • To cut into small cubes.
  • To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.

    • Derived terms

    * dice with death

    Anagrams

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    barbotte

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A Canadian dice game akin to craps.
  • * 1949 , Ernest Evred Blanche, You can't win: facts and fallacies about gambling :
    • Canadians prefer the game of barbotte ...
  • * 1967 , Richard A Epstein, The theory of gambling and statistical logic :
    • Barbotte is a Canadian version of Craps wherein the player wins if the two dice produce 3-3, 5-5, 6-6, or 6-5.
  • * 1988 , James H Marsh, The Canadian encyclopedia :
    • For the past century or so the most popular gambling games have been the card games of poker, stook and blackjack, and the dice games of craps and barbotte .
  • * 2003 , Suzanne Morton, At Odds'', ''Gambling and Canadians 1919–1969 , University of Toronto Press, ISBN 0802084419, page 49:
    • Games in such clubs ranged from poker, through roulette to location-specific pastimes such as the Montreal dice game barbotte .

    Alternative forms

    * barbooth

    References