die
part of speech
noun (die, dice); verb (die, dies, died, dying)
meaning for a pupil
1) To die means to stop living. tree →
2) A die is one small cube with dots from 1 to 6, used in games. A die has 6 faces. tree →
3) To be dying to do something means to want it very much. tree →
4) To die down is to become weaker, like a fire or wind. tree →
sense in the lessons
maths: a cube with numbers 1 to 6 for rolls and chances; as a verb, plants or animals that die are taken away (subtract); science: life cycles, all living things die; plants die without water; stories: sad parts when a pet dies; phrases: «die down», «dying to»
examples
- Roll a die and get a 6. tree →
- A die has 6 faces. tree →
- 4 of the 20 fish died. tree →
- How many plants are left if 3 died? tree →
- Plants die without water. tree →
- The wind died down at night. tree →
- Our old cat died last year. tree →
- I'm dying to see the new film. tree →
- Horseflesh; he died of eating horseflesh. tree →
note
As a cube it fixes the numbers 1 to 6; as «died» it means subtract. Trap: the plural of the game piece is «dice». «Dying» (stopping living) is not «dyeing» (colouring cloth).
In the corpora
- An inheritance is money or belongings left by someone who has died, as written in their will.
- Remarrying means marrying again after a divorce or after a husband or wife has died.
- An older person who finds a new partner after losing a husband or wife has not forgotten the one who died.
- A miscarriage is when a baby stops growing and dies early in pregnancy; it happens quite often and is nobody's fault.
- Every living thing dies one day.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «die» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.