Die, as a verb, refers to
death, the cessation of life.
Die may also refer to:
Games
* Die, singular of
dice
Dice (singular die or dice) are small, throwable objects with marked sides that can rest in multiple positions. They are used for generating random values, commonly as part of tabletop games, including dice games, board games, role-playing g ...
, small throwable objects used for producing random numbers
Manufacturing
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Die (integrated circuit), a rectangular piece of a semiconductor wafer
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Die (manufacturing)
A die is a specialized machine tool used in manufacturing industries to cut and/or form material to a desired shape or profile. Stamping dies are used with a press, as opposed to drawing dies (used in the manufacture of wire) and casting dies ( ...
, a material-shaping device
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Die (philately)
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Coin die, a metallic piece used to strike a coin
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Die casting, a material-shaping process
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Sort (typesetting)
In typesetting, a sort or type is a block with a typographic character etched on it, which is lined up with others to print text. In movable-type printing, the sort or type is cast from a matrix mold and assembled by hand with other sorts be ...
, a cast die for printing
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Die cutting (web)
Die cutting is the general process of using a die to shear webs of low-strength materials, such as rubber, fibre, foil, cloth, paper, corrugated fibreboard, chipboard, paperboard, plastics, pressure-sensitive adhesive tapes, foam, and sheet ...
, process of using a die to shear webs of low-strength materials
* Die, a tool used in
paper embossing
Embossing and debossing are the processes of creating either raised or recessed relief images and designs in paper and other materials. An embossed pattern is raised against the background, while a debossed pattern is sunken into the surface ...
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Tap and die, cutting tools used to create screw threads in solid substances
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Tool and die, the occupation of making dies
Arts and media
Music
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''Die'' (album), the seventh studio album by rapper Necro
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Die (musician), Japanese musician, guitarist of the band Dir en grey
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DJ Die, British DJ and musician with Reprazent
* "DiE", a 2013 single by the Japanese idol group
BiS
* die!, an inactive
German Neue Deutsche Härte band
Other uses in arts and media
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''Die'' (film), a 2010 thriller film directed by Dominic James
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''Die'' (comics), a comic book series and role-playing game by Kieron Gillen and illustrated by Stephanie Hans
Other uses
* Die, a
grammar article
An article is any member of a class of dedicated words that are used with noun phrases to mark the identifiability of the referents of the noun phrases. The category of articles constitutes a part of speech.
In English, both "the" and "a(n)" ar ...
, in the Afrikaans and German languages
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Die, Drôme
Die (; oc, Diá; frp, Dia) is a commune, former episcopal see, and subprefecture of the Drôme department in southeastern France. The region around Die is known as the Diois.
Die is best known for the ''Clairette de Die'', a sparkling wine. I ...
, a town in France
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Duplication is evil
"Don't repeat yourself" (DRY) is a principle of software development aimed at reducing repetition of software patterns, replacing it with abstractions or using data normalization to avoid redundancy.
The DRY principle is stated as "Every piece o ...
, a programming motto
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German Development Institute
The German Development Institute / (DIE) is one of the leading think tanks for development policy worldwide. This has been attested in January 2013 by the ranking of the Global Go To Think Tanks Report (of the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Pr ...
, a German think tank for multilateral development policy
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Dai (disambiguation)
Dai may refer to:
Names
* Dai (given name), a Welsh or Japanese masculine given name
* Dai (surname) (戴), a Chinese surname
Places and regimes
* Dai Commandery, a commandery of the state of Zhao and in early imperial China
* Dai County, in Xinz ...
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Di (disambiguation)
Di or DI may refer to:
Arts and media Music
* Di, a tone in the solfège ascending chromatic scale existing between Do and Re
* dizi (instrument) or di, a Chinese transverse flute
* ''D.I.'' (band), a punk band from Southern California
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Dié (disambiguation)
Dié may refer to:
* Dié, Burkina Faso, a village in the Dapelogo Department
* 蝶 (hanyu pinyin : dié), a Chinese character meaning ''butterfly''
* Saint-Dié, a commune in Vosges département in northeastern France
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Dies (disambiguation) Dies may refer to:
* Dies (deity), the Roman counterpart of the Greek goddess Hemera, the personification of day, daughter of Nox (Night) and Erebus (Darkness).
* Albert Christoph Dies (1755–1822), German painter, composer, and biographer
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Dice (disambiguation)
Dice are polyhedral objects used in games for generating random numbers.
Dice, DICE, or dicing may also refer to:
Fiction
* Dice (''G.I. Joe''), a fictional ninja in the ''G.I. Joe'' universe
* Dice Living, a way of life depicted in the novel ...
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Dicing
Dicing is a culinary knife cut in which the food item is cut into small blocks or dice. This may be done for aesthetic reasons or to create uniformly sized pieces to ensure even cooking. Dicing allows for distribution of flavour and texture thr ...
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Dye
A dye is a colored substance that chemically bonds to the substrate to which it is being applied. This distinguishes dyes from pigments which do not chemically bind to the material they color. Dye is generally applied in an aqueous solution an ...
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