You vs. Die — What's the Difference?
Difference Between You and Die
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Definitions
You
In Modern English, you is the second-person pronoun. It is grammatically plural, and was historically used only for the dative case, but in most modern dialects is used for all cases and numbers.
Die
(of a person, animal, or plant) stop living
The king died a violent death
He died of tuberculosis
Trees are dying from acid rain
You
Used to refer to the person or people that the speaker is addressing
Are you listening?
I love you
Die
Be very eager for something
They must be dying for a drink
He's dying to meet you
You
Used to refer to any person in general
After a while, you get used to it
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Die
Have an orgasm.
You
(object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
Both of you should get ready now.
Die
Singular form of dice
You
(To) yourselves, (to) yourself.
Die
A device for cutting or moulding metal into a particular shape.
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You
(object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)
Die
The cubical part of a pedestal between the base and the cornice; a dado or plinth.
You
(subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.)
You are all supposed to do as I tell you.
Die
To stop living; become dead; expire
Plants that died in the first frost of the season.
You
(subject pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)
Die
To cease existing, often gradually; fade
The sunlight died in the west.
You
(indefinite personal pronoun) Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).
Die
To experience an intense, seemingly unbearable reaction to something
Nearly died of embarrassment.
You
The individual or group spoken or written to.
Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus?
Die
(Informal) To want something very much. Usually used in the progressive aspect
I am dying for a box of chocolates. She was dying to see the exhibit.
You
Used before epithets, describing the person being addressed, for emphasis.
You idiot!
Die
To stop working or operating
The motor died when we ran out of gas.
You
(transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun you (in the past, especially to use you rather than thou, when you was considered more formal).
Die
To become indifferent
Had died to all worldly concerns.
You
The pronoun of the second person, in the nominative, dative, and objective case, indicating the person or persons addressed. See the Note under Ye.
Ye go to Canterbury; God you speed.
Good sir, I do in friendship counsel youTo leave this place.
In vain you tell your parting loverYou wish fair winds may waft him over.
Die
To cut, form, or stamp with or as if with a die.
Die
A small cube marked on each side with from one to six dots, usually used in pairs in gambling and in various other games.
Die
Dice (used with a sing. verb) A game of chance using dice.
Die
An engraved metal piece used for impressing a design onto a softer metal, as in coining money.
Die
One of several component pieces that are fitted into a diestock to cut threads on screws or bolts.
Die
A part on a machine that punches shaped holes in, cuts, or forms sheet metal, cardboard, or other stock.
Die
A metal block containing small conical holes through which plastic, metal, or other ductile material is extruded or drawn.
Die
Pl. dies(Architecture)The dado of a pedestal, especially when cube-shaped.
Die
(intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
Die
Followed by of; general use:
He died of malaria.
Die
Followed by from; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicineSciences:}}
He died from heart failure.
Die
Followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes:
He died for the one he loved.
Die
Followed by with as an indication of direct cause:
Die
Followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from):
I can't believe I just died to a turret!
Die
(still current) followed by with as an indication of manner:
She died with dignity.
Die
(transitive) To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
He died a hero's death.
They died a thousand deaths.
Die
To yearn intensely.
I'm dying for a packet of crisps.
I'm dying for a piss.
Die
To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.
Die
To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.
Die
To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die.
Die
To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died.
Die
To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".
My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.
Sorry I couldn't call you. My phone died.
My battery died and my charger was at home.
Die
To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
Die
To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.
The proposed gas tax died after the powerful rural senator refused to let it out of committee.
Die
To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
Die
To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
Die
(often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
To die to pleasure or to sin
Die
(architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
Die
To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
Die
(of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...
Die
Obsolete spelling of dye
Die
The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
Die
A device for cutting into a specified shape.
Die
A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
Die
A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
Die
An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
Die
An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
Die
Any small cubical or square body.
Die
An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
Most dice are six-sided.
I rolled the die and moved 2 spaces on the board.
Die
(obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
Die
Obsolete spelling of dye
Die
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 die by the roadside of grief and hunger.
She will die from want of care.
Die
To suffer death; to lose life.
In due time Christ died for the ungodly.
Die
To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.
Letting the secret die within his own breast.
Great deeds can not die.
Die
To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
His heart died within, and he became as a stone.
The young men acknowledged, in love letters, that they died for Rebecca.
Die
To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.
Die
To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; - often with out or away.
Blemishes may die away and disappear amidst the brightness.
Die
To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
Die
To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
"There is one certain way," replied the Prince [William of Orange] " by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin, - I will die in the last ditch."
Die
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.
Die
Any small cubical or square body.
Words . . . pasted upon little flat tablets or dies.
Die
That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
Such is the die of war.
Die
That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado.
Die
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.
Die
Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces; used to generate random numbers
Die
A device used for shaping metal
Die
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
Die
Pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life;
She died from cancer
They children perished in the fire
The patient went peacefully
Die
Suffer or face the pain of death;
Martyrs may die every day for their faith
Die
Be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame;
I was dying with embarrassment when my little lie was discovered
We almost died laughing during the show
Die
Stop operating or functioning;
The engine finally went
The car died on the road
The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town
The coffee maker broke
The engine failed on the way to town
Her eyesight went after the accident
Die
Feel indifferent towards;
She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery
Die
Languish as with love or desire;
She dying for a cigarette
I was dying to leave
Die
Cut or shape with a die;
Die out leather for belts
Die
To be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
Die
Lose sparkle or bouquet;
Wine and beer can pall
Die
Disappear or come to an end;
Their anger died
My secret will die with me!
Die
Suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense);
Whosoever..believes in me shall never die
