die
EnglishУреди
PronunciationУреди
Etymology 1Уреди
From Средњи Енглески deyen, from Стари Енглески dīeġan and Old Norse deyja, both from Proto-Germanic *dawjaną (“to die”). Displaced Стари Енглески sweltan.
VerbУреди
die (third-person singular simple present dies, present participle dieing, simple past and past participle dieed)
- (intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
- followed by of; general use:
- He died of malaria.
- 1839, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, Penguin 1985, page 87:
- "What did she die of, Work'us?" said Noah. "Of a broken heart, some of our old nurses told me," replied Oliver.
- 2000, Stephen King, On Writing, Pocket Books 2002, page 85:
- In 1971 or 72, Mom's sister Carolyn Weimer died of breast cancer.
- followed by from; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences:
- He died from heart failure.
- 1865, British Medical Journal, 4 Mar 1865, page 213:
- She lived several weeks; but afterwards she died from epilepsy, to which malady she had been previously subject.
- 2007, Frank Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Sandworms of Dune, Tor 2007, page 191:
- "Or all of them will die from the plague. Even if most of the candidates succumb. . ."
- followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes:
- He died for the one he loved.
- 1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Simon & Schuster 1999, page 232:
- 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.
- 2003, Tara Herivel & Paul Wright (editors), Prison Nation, Routledge 2003, page 187:
- Less than three days later, Johnson lapsed into a coma in his jail cell and died for lack of insulin.
- (now rare) followed by with as an indication of direct cause:
- Шаблон:RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing
- 1830, Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon, Richards 1854, page 337:
- And there were some who died with fevers, which at some seasons of the year was very frequent in the land.
- (uncommon, nonstandard outside video games) followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from):
- I can't believe I just died to a turret!
- 2014, S. J. Groves, The Darker Side to Dr Carter, page 437:
- Dr Thomas concluded she had died to a blow to the head, which led to a bleed on the brain, probably a fall and had hit her head hard on the wooden bedpost, as there was blood on the bedpost.
- (still current) followed by with as an indication of manner:
- She died with dignity.
- followed by of; general use:
- (transitive) To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
- He died a hero's death.
- They died a thousand deaths.
- 2019, Lou Marinoff, On Human Conflict: The Philosophical Foundations of War and Peace, Rowman & Littlefield (→ISBN), page 452:
- […] he chose instead to suffer even greater personal pain, with unimaginable fortitude and resolve, albeit for a shorter time. Thus he died a small death, in order to benefit the living. Similarly, a small and voluntary death was died by Socrates.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To yearn intensely.
- I'm dying for a packet of crisps.
- I'm dying for a piss.
- 1598, Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, Scene II:
- Yes, and his ill conditions; and in despite of all, dies for him.
- 2004 Paul Joseph Draus, Consumed in the city: observing tuberculosis at century's end - Page 168
- 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.
- (rare, intransitive) To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
- The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.
- 2015, Emily Duvall, Inclusions, page 150:
- "My dad […] beat us until we couldn't sit down." […] "What about your mother?" […] "She's alive. […] My aunt visits her once a year, but I don't ask about my mother. She died to me the day she chose my father over protecting us." Luke's voice hitched with emotion.
- 2017, Mike Hoornstra, Descent into the Maelstrom, page 366:
- "You haven't been my son since you were ten years old. That boy died to me the day he ran away. I don't know you. You are merely a shell that resembles someone I used to know, but you are dead to me. You are the bringer of pain and death. Leave me be. Leave me with my son, Jyosh." "Mother..." Barlun pleaded.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
- He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.
- (intransitive, colloquial, hyperbolic) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
- If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die.
- (figuratively, intransitive, hyperbolic) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
- When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died.
- 1976, an anchorman on Channel Five in California, quoted in Journal and Newsletter [of the] California Classical Association, Northern Section:
- I literally died when I saw that.
- (intransitive, of a machine) To stop working, to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".
- My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.
- Sorry I couldn't call you. My phone died.
- My battery died and my charger was at home.
- (intransitive, of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
- (intransitive, of a legislative bill or resolution) To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.
- The proposed gas tax died after the powerful rural senator refused to let it out of committee.
- To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
- Шаблон:RQ:Spectator
- letting the secret die within his own breast
- Шаблон:RQ:Tennyson Princess
- Great deeds cannot die.
- Шаблон:RQ:Spectator
- To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
- Шаблон:RQ:KJV
- His heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
- Шаблон:RQ:KJV
- (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
- to die to pleasure or to sin
- (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.
- Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...
Usage notesУреди
SynonymsУреди
- (to stop living): bite the dust, bite the big one, buy the farm, check out, cross over, cross the river, expire, succumb, give up the ghost, pass, pass away, pass on, be no more, 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 also Thesaurus:die
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DescendantsУреди
- → Вијетнамски: đai
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Etymology 2Уреди
From Средњи Енглески dee, from Стари Француски de (Modern Француски dé), from Латински datum, from datus (“given”), the past participle of dō (“to give”), from Пра-Индо-Европски *deh₃- (“to lay out, to spread out”). Дублети of datum.
NounУреди
die (plural dies)
- The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
- 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.)
- A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
- An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
- (electronics) (plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
- Any small cubical or square body.
- Шаблон:RQ:Watts Improvement
- Some young creatures have learnt their letters and syllables, and the pronouncing and spelling of words, by having them pasted or written upon many little flat tablets or dies.
- Шаблон:RQ:Watts Improvement
NounУреди
die (plural dice)
- (plural dies nonstandard) An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
- Most dice are six-sided.
- I rolled the die and moved 2 spaces on the board.
- Шаблон:RQ:Hume Human Understanding
- 2000, Richard Shoup, Barry Lenson, editor, Take Control Of Your Life: How to Control Fate, Luck, Chaos, Karma, and Life’s Other Unruly Forces, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, strana 42:
- When you roll two dies—or three, or four—the odds of obtaining a specific number becomes complex in a logarithmic progression.
- 2012, Rinaldo B. Schinazi, “Probability Space”, in Probability with Statistical Applications, second edition, Birkhäuser, →ISBN, “Independent Events”, “Exercises”, strana 16:
- We roll two dies repeatedly until we get the first double.
- 2014, Ionut Florescu; Ciprian A. Tudor, Handbook of Probability, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN:
- Roll two dies 24 times. What is the probability of rolling at least one double 6?
- 2017 децембар 8, “Adorable Kitten”, in Unstable, Wizards of the Coast:
- When this creature enters the battlefield, roll a six-sided die. You gain life equal to the result.
- (obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto V, stanza 13, strana 249:
- […] For th'equall die of warre he well did know.
- (electronics) (plural also dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
Usage notesУреди
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. See also the usage notes under "dice".
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Etymology 3Уреди
Variant spelling.
NounУреди
die (plural dies)
- Obsolete spelling of dye
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones:
- He hath carried his friendship to this man to a blameable length, by too long concealing facts of the blackest die.
VerbУреди
die (third-person singular simple present dies, present participle dieing, simple past and past participle dieed)
- Obsolete spelling of dye
- 1739, John Cay, An abridgment of the publick statutes in force and use from Magna Charta, in the ninth year of King Henry III, to the eleventh year of his present Majesty King George II, inclusive, Drapery, XXVII. Sect. 16:
- Also no dyer shall die any cloth, except he die the cloth and the list with one colour, without tacking any bulrushes or such like thing upon the lists, upon pain to forfeit 40 s. for every cloth. And no person shall put to sale any cloth deceitfully dyed,
- 1813, James Haigh, The Dier's Assistant in the Art of Dying Wool and Woollen Goods:
- To die wool with madder, prepare a fresh liquor, and when the water is come to a heat to bear the hand, put in half a pound of the finest grape madder for each pound of wool;
- 1827, John Shepard, The artist & tradesman's guide: embracing some leading facts:
- To die Wool and Woollen Cloths of a Blue Colour. One part of indigo, in four parts concentrated sulphuric acid, dissolved; then add one part of dry carbonate of potash, [...]
- 1739, John Cay, An abridgment of the publick statutes in force and use from Magna Charta, in the ninth year of King Henry III, to the eleventh year of his present Majesty King George II, inclusive, Drapery, XXVII. Sect. 16:
AnagramsУреди
AfrikaansУреди
Alternative formsУреди
- di (obsolete)
EtymologyУреди
From Холандски die, which is used only as a demonstrative in Dutch. The replacement of the article de with stronger die is also common in Surinamese Dutch and among non-native speakers of Dutch.
PronunciationУреди
- МФА(кључ): /di/
- МФА(кључ): /‿i/ (article only; contracted form, particularly after prepositions and conjunctions)
ArticleУреди
die (definite)
- the (definite article)
- die man ― the man
- die vrou ― the woman
- die kind ― the child
PronounУреди
die
- this one, these; that one, those;
- Die dokter het gesê dat jy siek is. Die is die rede hoekom jy in die bed moet bly.
- The doctor said that you are sick. That is the reason why you must stay in bed.
- Die dokter het gesê dat jy siek is. Die is die rede hoekom jy in die bed moet bly.
Usage notesУреди
- The demonstrative pronoun (“this/these”, “that/those”) is usually spelt dié in order to distinguish it from the definite article.
DanishУреди
PronunciationУреди
EtymologyУреди
From Old Danish di, from Old Norse *día, from Proto-Germanic *dijōną, from Пра-Индо-Европски *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, suckle”).
Cognate with Латински fellō, Санскрт धयति (dhayati, “to suck”). Compare causative dægge, Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌳𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (daddjan, “suckle”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
NounУреди
die c
- breast milk, mother's milk, when sucked from the breast
Usage notesУреди
Only used in the set phrase "give die".
VerbУреди
die (imperative di, infinitive at die, present tense dier, past tense diede, perfect tense har diet)
- to suckle
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DutchУреди
EtymologyУреди
From Средњи Холандски die, a merger of Стари Холандски thie, thē, thia, thiu and similar forms of the demonstrative. As in Old High German ther, der it replaced the original masculine and feminine nominative forms from Proto-Germanic *sa.
PronunciationУреди
DeterminerУреди
die
- that (masculine, feminine); referring to a thing or a person further away.
- die boom
- that tree
- die vrouw
- that woman
- die boom
- those (plural); referring to things or people further away.
- die vensters
- those windows
- die vensters
- (Suriname, colloquial) a certain, a particular; some; this; referring to a thing or a person that the speaker does not think is known to the audience.
- Die vrouw vraagt als iemand aardvruchten wil kopen.
- A woman is asking if anyone wants to buy root vegetables.
- Ik heb die wagen geslagen.
- I hit a car.
InflectionУреди
Sg. m. | Sg. f. | Sg. n. | Pl. | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Nom. | die | die | dat | die |
Gen. | diens van dien |
dier van die |
(diens) van dat |
dier van die |
Dat. | dien aan dien |
dier aan die |
(dien) aan dat |
dien aan die |
Acc. | dien | die | dat | die |
Шаблон:nl-decl-demonstrative determiner
DescendantsУреди
PronounУреди
die m or f or pl
- (relative) who, whom, which, that
- Ik ken geen mensen die dat kunnen.
- I don't know any people who can do that.
- Oh, maar ik ken iemand die dat wel kan!
- Oh, but I know somebody who can!
- Ik ken geen mensen die dat kunnen.
Usage notesУреди
A preceding comma may alter the meaning of a clause starting with a relative pronoun. Compare the following sentences:
- Alle arbeiders die staken zullen op sancties moeten rekenen.
- All workers who are on strike should expect sanctions.
- Alle arbeiders, die staken, zullen op sancties moeten rekenen.
- All workers, who are on strike, should expect sanctions.
In the first sentence, only the workers on strike are advised to expect sanctions. In the second sentence, the parenthetical phrase indicates that all the workers are on strike, and should all expect sanctions.
GermanУреди
PronunciationУреди
ArticleУреди
die (definite)
- nominative/accusative singular feminine of der
- die Frau ― the woman
- nominative/accusative plural of der
- die Männer ― the men
DeclensionУреди
Шаблон:de-decl-definite article
PronounУреди
die (relative or demonstrative)
- inflection of der:
Usage notesУреди
In a subordinate clause, die indicates a person or thing referenced in the main clause. It is used with plural or feminine singular antecedents.
DeclensionУреди
Шаблон:de-decl-relative pronoun
AnagramsУреди
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Alternative formsУреди
- ti (Wiesemann spelling system)
PronunciationУреди
ArticleУреди
die (definite)
- inflection of där:
- nominative/accusative singular feminine
- nominative/accusative plural all genders
DeclensionУреди
Шаблон:hrx-decl-definite articles
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NounУреди
die (plural dies)
- A day.
Derived termsУреди
- De die in die (“From day to day”)
- Un die (“One day, sometime”)
- Le die sequente (“The next day, the following day”)
ItalianУреди
EtymologyУреди
From Латински diēs, back-formed from the accusative diem (whose vowel was once long), from Proto-Italic *djēm, the accusative of *djous, from Пра-Индо-Европски *dyew- (“heaven, sky; to shine”).
PronunciationУреди
NounУреди
die m (plural #)
- Obsolete form of dì.
AnagramsУреди
LatinУреди
PronunciationУреди
NounУреди
diē
MandarinУреди
RomanizationУреди
РоманизацијаУреди
die
Usage notesУреди
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Middle DutchУреди
Etymology 1Уреди
From Стари Холандски thie, thia, from Proto-Germanic *sa.
PronunciationУреди
ArticleУреди
die
- the; definite article.
InflectionУреди
Овај article захтева inflection-table template.
DescendantsУреди
DeterminerУреди
die
InflectionУреди
Овај determiner захтева inflection-table template.
DescendantsУреди
Further readingУреди
- “die (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- “die (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
Etymology 2Уреди
From Стари Холандски thīo, from Proto-Germanic *þeuhą.
NounУреди
dië f or n
DescendantsУреди
Further readingУреди
- “die (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- “die (IV)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
MirandeseУреди
EtymologyУреди
NounУреди
die m (plural dies)
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Norwegian BokmålУреди
EtymologyУреди
Probably from Дански die, from Old Danish di, from Germanic *dijana-, *dejana-
VerbУреди
die (imperative di, present tense dier, passive dies, simple past and past participle dia or diet, present participle diende)
- to suck, suckle (of a baby on the breast)
- to breastfeed, nurse (of a mother with her baby)
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Norwegian NynorskУреди
EtymologyУреди
Probably from Дански die, from Old Danish di, from Germanic *dijana-, *dejana-
VerbУреди
die (present tense diar, past tense dia, past participle dia, passive infinitive diast, present participle diande, imperative di/die)
- to suck, suckle (of a baby on the breast)
- to breastfeed, nurse (of a mother with her baby)
Alternative formsУреди
ReferencesУреди
- “die” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Pennsylvania GermanУреди
EtymologyУреди
From Middle High German and Old High German diu, from Proto-Germanic *sa. Compare Немачки die.
ArticleУреди
die f (definite)
DeclensionУреди
Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Nominative | der | die | es | die |
Accusative | der | die | es | die |
Dative | dem | der | em | de |
RomanianУреди
InterjectionУреди
die
- Alternative form of di
Saterland FrisianУреди
PronunciationУреди
Etymology 1Уреди
From Old Frisian thī, from Proto-West Germanic *þa, from Proto-Germanic *sa. Cognates include West Frisian de and Немачки der.
ArticleУреди
die (unstressed de, oblique dän, feminine ju, neuter dät, plural do)
Etymology 2Уреди
From Old Frisian thī, from Proto-West Germanic *þiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þiz. Cognates include West Frisian dy and Немачки dir.
PronounУреди
die
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PronounУреди
die
See alsoУреди
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TeanuУреди
EtymologyУреди
From Proto-Oceanic *suʀi (“fishbone, thorn, splinter”), from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *zuʀi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duʀi, from Proto-Austronesian *duʀi (“thorn”).
PronunciationУреди
NounУреди
die
ReferencesУреди
- Шаблон:R:tkw:lex – entry die.
- Шаблон:R:tkw:lex2 – entry die.
- Lackey, W.J.. & Boerger, B.H. (2021), “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic's Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics.
YolaУреди
Alternative formsУреди
EtymologyУреди
From Средњи Енглески day, from Стари Енглески dæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *dag.
NounУреди
die (plural dais or daies or daiez)