die vs last

die

noun
  • A device for cutting into a specified shape. 

  • The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth. 

  • A mold for forming metal or plastic objects. 

  • An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals. 

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

  • 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. 

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

verb
  • followed by of; general use 

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

  • followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from) 

  • To be mortified or shocked by a situation. 

  • To fail to evoke laughter from the audience. 

  • To yearn intensely. 

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

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

  • To become spiritually dead; to lose hope. 

  • followed by from; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences 

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

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

  • followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes 

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

  • To become indifferent; to cease to be subject. 

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

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

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

  • To lose a game. 

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

  • followed by with as an indication of manner 

last

noun
  • A tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes. 

  • A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value. 

verb
  • To hold out, continue undefeated or entire. 

  • To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last. 

  • To endure, continue over time. 

adv
  • Most recently. 

  • after everything else; finally 

det
  • The (one) immediately before the present. 

  • Closest in the past, or closest but one if the closest was very recent; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) ago, or the most recent instance before seven days (one week) ago. 

adj
  • Being the only one remaining of its class. 

  • Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable. 

  • Supreme; highest in degree; utmost. 

  • Lowest in rank or degree. 

  • Most recent, latest, last so far. 

  • Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind. 

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