Diced vs Null - What's the difference?
diced | null |
(dice)
(uncountable) Gaming with one or more dice.
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* 1972 , (translation), Einstein: The Life and Times , Avon Books
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* 1980 , Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, “The Winner Takes It All”, Super Trouper , Polar Music
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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.
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As a verb diced
is (dice).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.diced
English
Verb
(head)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.
Derived terms
* dice with deathnull
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.