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arpakuutio

leikata kuutioiksi

heittää noppaa puhekieltä Gaming with one or more dice.
(quote-book)|author=(w)|passage=Or think of a decent young citizen in a toga—perhaps too much dice, you know—coming out here in the train of some prefect, or tax-gatherer, or trader even, to mend his fortunes.|year=1899
(quote-book)|year=1964|passage=On the other hand, evolution is not a matter of chance, even in the sense in which a game of dice is a game of chance.
1972, (translation), Einstein: The Life and Times, Avon Books

I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.

(Original: Jedenfalls bin ich überzeugt, dass der Alte nicht würfelt. December 4, 1926. Albert Einstein. Born-Einstein Letters. Trans. Irene Born. New York: Walker and Company, 1971.)

The gods may throw a dice / Their minds as cold as ice

Cut onions, carrots and celery into medium dice.

I (..) diced not above seven times a week.

Tyrion found Timmett dicing with his Burned Men in the barracks.

Digo, señor don Quijote -dijo la duquesa-, que en todo cuanto vuestra merced dice va con pie de plomo, y, como suele decirse, con la sonda en la mano; y que yo desde aquí adelante creeré ... que hay Dulcinea en el Toboso, ... merecedora que un tal caballero como es el señor don Quijote la sirva; que es lo más que puedo ni sé encarecer.

: “I say, Sir Don Quixote,” said the duchess, “that in all your mercy says, he goes with leaden feet, and as the saying goes, with sounding plummet in hand; and that I henceforth will believe, ... that there is a Dulcinea in El Toboso, ... deserving of such a knight as Sir Don Quixote in her service, which is the highest praise that I can give her.”