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What something does or is used for.
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, title= A professional or official position.
(senseid)An official or social occasion.
A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.
(mathematics) A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of the codomain.
(computing) A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.
(biology) The physiological activity of an organ or body part.
(chemistry) The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound.
(anthropology) The role of a social practice in the continued existence of the group.
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
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#* 1839 , Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist , Penguin 1985, page 87:
#* 2000 , Stephen King, On Writing , Pocket Books 2002, page 85:
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#* 1865 , British Medical Journal , 4 Mar 1865, page 213:
#* 2007 , Frank Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Sandworms of Dune , Tor 2007, page 191:
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#* 1961 , Joseph Heller, Catch-22 , Simon & Schuster 1999, page 232:
#* 2003 , Tara Herivel & Paul Wright (editors), Prison Nation , Routledge 2003, page 187:
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#* 1600 , William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing , Act III, Scene I:
#* 1830 , Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon , Richards 1854, page 337:
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To stop living and undergo (a specified death).
(figuratively) To yearn intensely.
* 1598 , (Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing), Act III, Scene II:
* 2004 Paul Joseph Draus, Consumed in the city: observing tuberculosis at century's end - Page 168
(idiomatic) To be utterly cut off by family or friends, as if dead.
(figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
(colloquial) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
(intransitive, of a, machine) to stop working, to break down.
(intransitive, of a, computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
* Spectator
* Tennyson
To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
* Bible, 1 Samuel xxv. 37
To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
(architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
(of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
(plural: dice) A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
* 1748 . David Hume. . In: Wikisource . Wikimedia: 2007. ยง 46.
(plural: dies) The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth.
(plural: dies) A device for cutting into a specified shape.
A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
(plural: dies) A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
(plural: dies) An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
(electronics) (plural:'' dice ''or dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
Any small cubical or square body.
* Watts
(obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
* Spenser
As a noun function
is what something does or is used for.As a verb function
is to have a function.As a proper noun die is
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Synonyms
* (what something does or is used for) aim, intention, purpose, role, use * (professional or official position) occupation, office, part, role * (official or social occasion) affair, occasion, social occasion, social function * many-to-one map, many-to-one mapping, mathematical function, operation, transformation * procedure, routine, subprogram, subroutineHypernyms
* (mathematics) relationDerived terms
* absolutely continuous function * acidity function * adaptive-control function * additive function * additive set function * adjoint wave function * aggregate function * Airy function * Airy stress function * algebraic function * almost-periodic function * alternating function * analytic function * analytical function generator * anatomy of function * antihyperbolic function * antisymmetric wave function * antisymmetrized wave function * antitrigonometric function * arc-hyperbolic function * autocorrelation function * Baire function * bei function * ber function * Bessel function * beta function * bifunctional * biharmonic function * Bloch function * Boolean function * Borel measurable function * bounded function * boxcar function * Brillouin function * built-in function * Cantor function * characteristic function * circular function * cofunction * comparable function * complementary function * complete class of decision function * composite function * compressadensity function * computable function * concave function * confluent hypergeometric function * conjugate convex function * connect function * constant function * constraint function * contiguous function * continuous function * convex function * cosine function * cost function * countably additive set function * countably subadditive set function * critical function * cross-correlation function * cyclosymmetric function * cylinder function * decreasing function * delta function * density function * describing function * differentiable function * difunctional * digamma function * diode function generator * Dirac wave function * discriminant function * disfunction * dissipation function * driving-point function * dysfunction * effectively computable function * eigenfunction * eigenfunction expansion * Einstein partition function * electron wave function * electronic work function * elementary function * elementary symmetric function * elliptic function * Emden function * entire function * equivalent propositional function * error function * essentially bounded function * Euler's phi function * even function * excitation function * executive ego function * explicit function * exponential density function * exponential function * exponential generating function * feedback transfer function * Fermi-Dirac distribution function * form function * forward transfer function * Fowler function * frontogenetic function * function code * function failure safety * function generator * function key * function multiplier * function object * function space * function switch * function table * function unit * function-evaluation routine * functional * functionalism * functionality * gamma function * general-purpose function generator * generalized transmission function * generating function * Green's function * Hamiltonian function * Hammett acidity function * Hankel function * harmonic function * Heaviside unit function * hei function * her function * Hildebrand function * homogeneous function * Hugoniot function * hybrid wave function * hyperbolic function * hypergeometric function * identity function * implicit function * implicit function theorem * impulse function * incidence function * incomplete beta function * incomplete gamma function * increasing function * independent function * influence function * information function of a partition * initial mass function * inner function * integrable function * integral function * invariant function * inverse function * inverse function theorem * inverse hyperbolic function * inverse trigonometric function * inverting function * J function * Jacobian elliptic function * jump function * kei function * ker function * Koebe function * Lagrange stream function * Lagrangian function * * * Langevin function * left-continuous function * Legendre function * Leverett function * line function * linear discriminant function * linear function * Liouville function * locally integrable function * logarithmic trigonometric function * logarithmically convex function * loop transfer function * loss function * lower semicontinuous function * luminosity function * Lyapunov function * malfunction * malfunction routine * Massieu function * mathematical function program * Mathieu function * Maxwell's stress function * measurable function * membership function * meromorphic function * microspec function * minimal brain dysfunction syndrome * Minkowski distance function * * modified Bessel function * modified Hankel function * moment generating function * momentum wave function * monofunctional compound * monogenic analytic function * monotone function * monotone nondecreasing function * monotone nonincreasing function * monotonic increasing function * Morera's stress function * multifunction array radar * multilinear function * multiplicative number-theoretic function * natural function * Neumann function * nonfunctional packages software * normal density function * normalized function * normalized support function * NOT function * nuclear response function * number-theoretic function * objective function * odd function * optimizing control function * orthogonal function * orthonormal function * parabolic cylinder function * partial function * partial recursive function * particle distribution function * partition function * Patterson function * penalty function * periodic function * phase function * piecewise-continuous function * Planck function * point characteristic function * point function * Poisson density function * polynomial function * positive linear functional * positive real function * power function * predefined function * principal function * probability density function * probability mass function * programmed function key * proper rational function * propositional function * psi function * pulsed transfer function * quadratic function * Rademacher function * radial distribution function * radicofunctional name * random function * rational function * Rayleigh's dissipation function * real-valued function * recursive function * regular function * regulatory control function * restricted function * Riccati-Bessel function * Riemann function * Riemann P function * Riemann zeta function * sample function * scalar function * scattering function * * self-dual switching function * self-organizing function * sensitivity function * separated-function synchrotron * set function * sharpness function technique * shear-viscosity function * sigma function * simple function * simply periodic function * single-valued function * sinusoidal function * skewed density function * Smarandache function * source function * special function * spectral function * spherical Bessel function * staff function * step function * step-function generator * Stokes stream function * stress function * subadditive function * subadditive set function * subfunction * subfunctional * subharmonic function * subsine function * summable function * superadditive function * superharmonic function * support function * switch function * switching function * symmetric function * tapped-potentiometer function generator * test function * tetrafunctional molecule * thermionic work function * thermodynamic function of state * theta function * tool-function controller * torsion function * transcendental function * transfer function * transition function * transmission function * trigamma function * trigonometric cofunction * trigonometric function * truth function * Turing computable function * universal transmission function * universal wavelength function * upper semicontinuous function * user-defined function * variable diode function generator * vector function * viscous dissipation function * wave function * Wannier function * Weierstrass function * Weierstrassian elliptic function * weight function * work functionSynonyms
* (to have a function) officiate, serve * (to carry on a function) go, operate, run, workAntonyms
* (to carry on a function) malfunctiondie
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), ).J. P. Mallory, Douglas Q. Adams, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture'' (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999), page 150, s.v. "death"Vladimir Orel, ''A Handbook of Germanic Etymology (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2003).Verb
- "What did she die of, Work'us?" said Noah. "Of a broken heart, some of our old nurses told me," replied Oliver.
- In 1971 or 72, Mom's sister Carolyn Weimer died of breast cancer.
- She lived several weeks; but afterwards she died from epilepsy, to which malady she had been previously subject.
- "Or all of them will die from the plague. Even if most of the candidates succumb. . ."
- Englishmen are dying' for England, Americans are '''dying''' for America, Germans are '''dying''' for Germany, Russians are ' dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war.
- Less than three days later, Johnson lapsed into a coma in his jail cell and died for lack of insulin.
- Therefore let Benedicke like covered fire, / Consume away in sighes, waste inwardly: / It were a better death, to die' with mockes, / Which is as bad as ' die with tickling.
- And there were some who died with fevers, which at some seasons of the year was very frequent in the land.
- She died with dignity.
- He died a hero's death.
- They died a thousand deaths.
- Yes, and his ill conditions; and in despite of all, dies for him.
- I could see that he was dying, dying' for a cigarette, '''dying''' for a fix maybe, ' dying for a little bit of freedom, but trapped in a hospital bed and a sick body.
- The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.
- He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.
- If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die .
- My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.
- letting the secret die within his own breast
- Great deeds cannot die .
- His heart died within, and he became as a stone.
- to die to pleasure or to sin
- Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...
Synonyms
* (to stop living) bite the dust, buy the farm, check out, cross over, expire, succumb, give up the ghost, pass, pass away, pass on, be no more, cease to be, go to meet one's maker, be a stiff, push up the daisies, hop off the twig, kick the bucket, shuffle off this mortal coil, join the choir invisible * See alsoDerived terms
* be dying for * die away * die down * diehard/die-hard/die hard * die off * die out * do-or-die * the good die young * to die forReferences
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m) (Modern (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)- If a die were marked with one figure or number of spots on four sides, and with another figure or number of spots on the two remaining sides, it would be more probable, that the former would turn up than the latter;
- words pasted upon little flat tablets or dies
- Such is the die of war.