A Quick and Simple Dictionary

die

1. Verb.  To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
2. Verb.  (figuratively) To yearn intensely.
3. Verb.  (video games) To cause the death of a player character while controlling it.
4. Verb.  To be cut off by family or friends utterly, as if dead.
5. Verb.  (figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
6. Verb.  (colloquial) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
7. Verb.  (of a, machine) to stop working, to break down.
8. Verb.  (of a, computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
9. Noun.  (''plural:'' dice) A polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
10. Noun.  (''plural:'' dies) The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth.
11. Noun.  (''plural:'' dies) A device for cutting into a specified shape.
12. Noun.  (''plural:'' dies) A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
13. Noun.  (''plural:'' dies) An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
14. Noun.  (''plural:'' dice ''or'' dies) A fragment of a completed integrated circuit wafer, among those produced by fracturing the wafer as specified in its design, that includes a portion that (unless defective) can provide the electronic function for which it was designed, but whose further mechanical subdivision would irreversibly impair that function.