dicing
present participle ofdice
dice
verb
uk/daɪs/us/daɪs/diceverb(CUT)
C2[T]
tocutfoodintosmallsquares:
Peel and dice thepotatoes.
dicedcarrots
Preparing food
- batch cooking
- biga
- bind
- boil
- butter
- buttered
- can't boil an eggidiom
- clarify
- glaze
- glazed
- grate
- ingredient
- jerk
- purée
- re-season
- recipe
- rehydrate
- restuff
- toss
- zap
diceverb(GAME)
dice with death
to do somethingextremelydangerousandsilly:
You're dicing withdeathdrivingat thatspeedonicyroads.
Taking risks
- adventurer
- all in
- be skating on thin iceidiom
- bet the farm/ranchidiom
- broke
- dare
- expose
- hazard
- high wire
- high-stakes
- imperil
- jeopardize
- lay
- re-expose
- risk
- run the risk of doingsomethingidiom
- sail
- sail close to the windidiom
- skate
- stickyourneck outidiom
Examplesofdicing
dicing
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
No doubt that is what they told themselves they were doing - rather thandicingwith heresy.
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Given such a momentous increase in air traffic, is it notdicingwith death to privatise air traffic control?
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To be crestfallen in this respect may very well bedicing, not just with the money of "big people".
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For good or ill, we aredicingwith those changes.
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At 100 ft and 500 mph the only response can be a reflex response, and reflexes can be developed otherwise than bydicingwith death.
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Talk aboutdicingwith death.
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Oswald, in his reply, did not quite appreciate the reasons why it was proposed to insert the words "the removal of inedible or extraneous matter, or cutting,dicingor slicing".
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Variants includingdicingand cooking the meat over the rice cooked instead of remaining in steak form.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.By the next month, she moderated her concern, but expressed opposition to any congressional slicing anddicingthat would separate energy and climate concerns.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thedicingprocess can be accomplished by scribing and breaking, by mechanical sawing (normally with a machine called a "dicing saw") or by laser cutting.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Dicingtape has different properties depending on thedicingapplication.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A common memory optimization introduces a step called "bucketing" prior to thedicingstep.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In home cooking most people regarddicingto be any size cube, often the size of a regular set of game dice.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Archery could not compete with the nefarious pursuits of cricket,dicing, and carding.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The clean room contains the steppers for photolithography, etching, cleaning, doping anddicingmachines.
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