Dice vs. Domino: What's the Difference?

Plural of die2.

A small rectangular wood or plastic block, the face of which is divided into halves, each half being blank or marked by dots resembling those on dice.

Pl. dice also dices (used with a pl. verb) Small cubes of food.

Dominoes or dominos (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A game played with a set of these small blocks, generally 28 in number.

To play or gamble with dice.

A country expected to react politically to events as predicted by the domino theory

To win or lose (money) by gambling with dice.

A costume consisting of a hooded robe worn with an eye mask at a masquerade.

To cut (food) into small cubes.

The mask so worn.

To decorate with dicelike figures.

One wearing this costume.

(uncountable) Gaming with one or more dice.

(dominoes) A tile divided into two squares, each having 0 to 6 (or sometimes more) dots or pips (as in dice), used in the game of dominoes.

A die.

(politics) A country that is expected to react to events in a neighboring country, according to the domino effect.

That which has been diced.

A masquerade costume consisting of a hooded robe and a mask covering the upper part of the face.

(intransitive) To play dice.

The mask itself.

(transitive) To cut into small cubes.

The person wearing the costume.

(transitive) To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.

(geometry) A polyomino made up of two squares.

To play games with dice.

A mistake in performing.

To cut into small cubes; as, to slice and dice carrots.

(intransitive) To collapse in the manner of dominoes.

To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.

(transitive) To cause to collapse in the manner of dominoes.

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

A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice.

Cut into cubes;

A mourning veil formerly worn by women.

Play dice

A kind of mask; particularly, a half mask worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. Dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling.

A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.

A person wearing a domino.

A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played

One of the pieces with which the game of dominoes is played.

United States rhythm and blues pianist and singer and composer (born in 1928)

A loose hooded cloak worn with a half mask as part of a masquerade costume

A mask covering the upper part of the face but with holes for the eyes

A small rectangular block used in playing the game of dominoes; the face of each block has two equal areas that can bear 0 to 6 dots