Die vs. Pine — What's the Difference?

(of a person, animal, or plant) stop living

A pine is any conifer in the genus Pinus () of the family Pinaceae. Pinus is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae.

Be very eager for something

An evergreen coniferous tree which has clusters of long needle-shaped leaves. Many kinds are grown for the soft timber, which is widely used for furniture and pulp, or for tar and turpentine.

Have an orgasm.

A pineapple.

Singular form of dice

Suffer a mental and physical decline, especially because of a broken heart

A device for cutting or moulding metal into a particular shape.

Any of various evergreen trees of the genus Pinus, having fascicles of needle-shaped leaves and producing woody seed-bearing cones. These trees are widely cultivated for ornament and shade and for their timber and resinous sap, which yields turpentine and pine tar.

The cubical part of a pedestal between the base and the cornice; a dado or plinth.

Any of various other coniferous trees, such as the Norfolk Island pine.

To stop living; become dead; expire

The wood of any of these trees.

To cease existing, often gradually; fade

Intense longing or grief.

To experience an intense, seemingly unbearable reaction to something

To feel a lingering, often nostalgic desire.

(Informal) To want something very much. Usually used in the progressive aspect

To wither or waste away from longing or grief

To stop working or operating

To grieve or mourn for.

To become indifferent

Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.

To cut, form, or stamp with or as if with a die.

(countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.

A small cube marked on each side with from one to six dots, usually used in pairs in gambling and in various other games.

(uncountable) The wood of this tree.

Dice (used with a sing. verb) A game of chance using dice.

A pineapple.

An engraved metal piece used for impressing a design onto a softer metal, as in coining money.

(archaic) A painful longing.

One of several component pieces that are fitted into a diestock to cut threads on screws or bolts.

(intransitive) To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.

A part on a machine that punches shaped holes in, cuts, or forms sheet metal, cardboard, or other stock.

(intransitive) To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.

A metal block containing small conical holes through which plastic, metal, or other ductile material is extruded or drawn.

(transitive) To grieve or mourn for.

Pl. dies(Architecture)The dado of a pedestal, especially when cube-shaped.

(transitive) To inflict pain upon; to torment.

(intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

Woe; torment; pain.

Followed by of; general use:

Any tree of the coniferous genus Pinus. See Pinus.

Followed by from; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicineSciences:}}

The wood of the pine tree.

Followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes:

A pineapple.

Followed by with as an indication of direct cause:

To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.

Followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from):

To grieve or mourn for.

(still current) followed by with as an indication of manner:

To suffer; to be afflicted.

(transitive) To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).

To languish; to lose flesh or wear away, under any distress or anexiety of mind; to droop; - often used with away.

To yearn intensely.

To languish with desire; to waste away with longing for something; - usually followed by for.

To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.

A coniferous tree

To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.

Straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus

To be mortified or shocked by a situation.

Have a desire for something or someone who is not present;

To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.

To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".

To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).

To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.

To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.

To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.

(often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.

(architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.

To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.

(of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.

Obsolete spelling of dye

The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.

A device for cutting into a specified shape.

A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)

A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.

An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.

An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.

Any small cubical or square body.

An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.

(obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.

Obsolete spelling of dye

To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; - said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought.

To suffer death; to lose life.

To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.

To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.

To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.

To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; - often with out or away.

To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.

To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.

A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice.

Any small cubical or square body.

That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.

That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado.

A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc.

Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces; used to generate random numbers

A device used for shaping metal

A cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods

Pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life;

Suffer or face the pain of death;

Be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame;

Stop operating or functioning;

Feel indifferent towards;

Languish as with love or desire;

Cut or shape with a die;

To be on base at the end of an inning, of a player

Lose sparkle or bouquet;

Disappear or come to an end;

Suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense);