* A few English nouns have plurals that are not spelled with a final s but end in an / s / or a / z / sound: mice ( plural of mouse, and for compounds like dormouse, titmouse ), dice ( when used as the plural of die ), pence ( a plural of penny, with compounds like sixpence that now tend to be taken as singulars ).

Hajduki ( German Heiduk ): the name etymology is ambiguous and is interpreted as either ( 1 ) related to the German word for moorland ( German: die Heide ), or ( 2 ) adopted from the German / Polish / Silesian term for hajduk ( s ) ( Polish ( plural ): Hajduki ; German ( singular ): Heiduck ), which locally meant bandits.

There is no relation with the third person plural of " to die " meurent ( i. e. " they die ") even if it's the same spelling.

If three dice are tossed, a trial is one toss of one die and the experiment is composed of three trials.

Mathematically, we shall not distinguish the experiment of three dice tossed once from that of one die tossed three times.

After rolling the dice players must, if possible, move their checkers according to the number of pips shown on each die.

Dice games include beer die, dudo, kinito, liar's dice, Mexico, mia, pounce !, ship, captain, and crew, tablero da Gucci, and three man.

Four coloured dice showing all six possible sides ( on a right-handed, 6-sided die with pips )

Dice are thrown, singly or in groups, from the hand or from a container designed for this ( such as a dice cup ), onto a flat surface ; the face of the die that is uppermost when it comes to rest provides the value of the throw.

Clones of board games must use computer generated dice ; the values are usually determined by a pseudorandom number generator, then displayed as a visual representation of a die.

All such dice are stamped with a serial number to prevent potential cheaters from substituting a die.

Because of the mechanics of progress cards explained below, one of the two white dice used in Settlers is replaced by a red die.

The result of each die is added ( dice which reach their maximum value are thrown again, adding each maximum to the tally, along with the final result below maximum ) and compared to a value decided by the game master / storyteller according to the difficulty of the task.

Moreover, all players must rely on the honor system when determining the outcome of events through dice rolls, as the die is only visible to the player who most benefits from lying about it.

Traveller, version 4 ( T4 ), published by Imperium Games, also has intermediate levels of difficulty which call for " half-dice " to be used ; for example " Difficult " is 2. 5 dice and one die result ( rolled as a different color die from the rest ) must be halved when counted.

Contingent events such as weapon hits and misses are determined by the roll of a six sided die ( note that the rulebooks use the word " dice " to refer to a single die ) and unit characteristics.

This metaphor comes from gambling with dice: once the die or dice have been thrown, all bets are irrevocable, even before the dice have come to rest.

Players take turns moving around the board by hitting a dice block, the game's equivalent of rolling a die.

Each of the expansions used " realm dice " ( a die marked from 1-4 ) which made movement slower in the realms.

On dice, pips are small dots on each face of a common six-sided die.

* d66 ( die ), a dice roll used in some old wargames and RPGs

A quincunx of pips on the fifth side of a dice | die

Something of this can be learned from `` The Way To The Churchyard '' ( 1901 ), an anecdote about an old failure whose fit of anger at a passing cyclist causes him to die of a stroke or seizure.

I believe, therefore, that we are without exception sinners, by nature alienated from God, and that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to earth, the representative Head of a new race, to die upon the cross and pay the penalty of the sin of the world, and that he who thus receives Christ as his personal Saviour is `` born again '' spiritually, with new privileges, appetites, and affections, destined to live and grow in His likeness forever.

Around 70, 000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.

In the Catholic church, all who die in god's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation ; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven or the final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned.

" The Covered Hall ") This abode is somewhat like Hades from Ancient Greek religion: there, something not unlike the Asphodel Meadows can be found, and people who have neither excelled in that which is good nor excelled in that which is bad can expect to go there after they die and be reunited with their loved ones.

Like Jehovah's Witnesses, Adventists use key phrases from the Bible, such as " For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten " ( Eccl.

The two words may be derived from the same Indo-European form * ṇ-mṛ-to-: immortal ( n-: negative prefix equivalent to the prefix a-in both Greek and Sanskrit ; mṛ: zero grade of * mer-: to die ; and-to-: adjectival suffix ).

Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.

While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two die from the British / Indian troops.

Blue Remembered Hills, a television play by Dennis Potter, takes its title from " Into My Heart an Air That Kills " from A Shropshire Lad, the cycle also providing the name for the James Bond film Die Another Day: " But since the man that runs away / Lives to die another day ".

Finally, Beowulf tears Grendel's arm from his body at the shoulder and Grendel runs to his home in the marshes to die.

When removing checkers from the board (" bearing off "), the exact roll must be used unless a die is greater than any checker can use to bear off ; in that case the die is played by taking a checker from the highest-numbered point off the board.

A die may not be used to bear off checkers from a lower-numbered point unless there are no checkers on any higher points.

) According to the professional Jewish scribes, the Sopherim, the text of 1: 12 was changed from " You do not die " to " We shall not die.

People who die from this form of plague often die on the same day symptoms first appear.

Alexander Will, from Forfar in Scotland, was the first Temporary Constable to die in the conflict.

Bycatch, the capture of unintended species in the course of fishing, is typically returned the ocean only to die from injuries or exposure.

For example, if a game is played by wagering on the number that would result from the roll of one die, true odds would be 5 times the amount wagered since there is a 1 in 6 chance of any single number appearing, assuming that you get the original amount wagered back.

In geometry, a cube < ref > English cube from Old French < Latin cubus < Greek κύβος ( kubos ) meaning " a cube, a die, vertebra ".

The rationale for the differential treatment goes to the heart of the risk a life insurer takes: Old people are likely to die sooner than young people, so the risk of loss ( the insured's death ) is greater in any given period of time and therefore the risk premium must be higher to cover the greater risk.

Over a dozen people were killed in Beirut as a result of the chaos and in Jerusalem, roughly 75, 000 Arabs marched through the Old City chanting " Nasser will never die.

The word fey, originally meaning " fated to die " or " having forebodings of death " ( hence " visionary ", " mad ", and various other derived meanings ) is completely unrelated, being from Old English fæge, Proto-Germanic * faigja-and Proto-Indo-European * poikyo -, whereas Latin fata comes from the Indo-European root * bhã-" speak ".

The courage displayed by Samwise Gamgee on his journey with Frodo, his subjection to dangers and the preparedness to die out of loyalty for Frodo is the kind of spirit that was praised by Tolkien in a number of essays on the Old English poem " The Battle of Maldon ".

In Norse mythology, Sessrúmnir ( Old Norse " seat-room " or " seat-roomer ") is both the goddess Freyja's hall located in Fólkvangr, a field where Freyja receives half of those who die in battle, and also the name of a ship.

Although Teuffel's First Period was equivalent to Old Latin and his Second Period was equal to the Golden Age, his Third Period, die römische Kaiserheit, encompasses both the Silver Age and the centuries now termed Late Latin, in which the forms seemed to break loose from their foundation and float freely ; that is, literary men appeared uncertain as to what " good Latin " should mean.

* Isaac Davis ( 1745 – 1775 ), Captain of the Acton Minutemen at the Old North Bridge in Concord at the Battle of Lexington and Concord ; the first officer to die in the American Revolution

Peter Stewart Ney died November 15, 1846 in Mocksville, North Carolina, aged 77-years, reportedly after uttering the final words, " Bessières is dead ; the Old Guard is dead ; now, please, let me die.

Some features of Gutnish include the preservation of Old Norse diphthongs like ai in for instance stain ( Swedish sten, English stone ) and oy in for example doy ( Swedish dö, English die ).

On 10 March 1861, Titu Maiorescu held a lecture ( Die alte französische Tragödie und die Wagnersche Musik — „ The Old French Tragedy and Wagner's Music ”) in Berlin for the benefit of the monument of Lessing from Kamenz, which he repeated on 12 April in Paris, at the „ Cercle des sociétés savantes “ ( Circle of Academic Societies ) and later renewed in the form of a communication, on 27 April in Berlin, at the Philosophy Society.

He is credited with coining the phrase " Old habits die hard.

The marriage of Hawkeye and Mockingbird is also placed in jeopardy when during a time travel adventure she allows the Old West hero Phantom Rider to die in a fall for deceiving and raping her.

A poem entitled " It won't be my fault if I die an Old Maid ", containing the lines " Remember no thought to a girl is so dread / As the terrible one — She may die an Old Maid.

He was the first signer of the Declaration of Independence to die and was buried in St. Paul's Burying Ground ( also known as the Old Swedish Burial Ground ) in the city of Chester, Pennsylvania.

Old trees which die from fire or drought, undergo some metamorphosis in their wood due to the crystallization of the resin inside the heart wood.

Old rivals reappear, new rivals emerge, and there is a plot to restore Zoidians to power, even though all humans have to die for it.

Meaning: Old habits ( when people were young ) will stay with them till they die ( or grow up )

From 1852 to 1855 Steinthal resided in Paris, where he devoted himself to the study of Chinese, and in 1863 he was appointed assistant professor at the Berlin University ; from 1872 he was also privat-dozent in critical history of the Old Testament and in religious philosophy at the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums.

He tells the Don he is going to die along with Vito, and reveals why: the accidental death of Carmen, one of the Old Town girls.

Old forms of jurats ran as Juratum ... die ... coram ..., which then gave in English Sworn this ... day of ... before me.