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Cube
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- 1 Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself twice. not-comparable, postpositional
"Beautiful peepshows with hand-coloured engravings by Martin Englebrecht, 1684-1756, were produced in Augsburg about 1740. The box, about six inches cube, contained slots to take four cut-out scenes, the front of the box had another cut-out, and the back was painted with a landscape, making six 'curtains' in all."
- 1 A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
"When the math teacher is teaching the class about cubes, he asks them to imagine a cardboard box whose width, length, and height are all the same."
- 2 A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
"My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube."
- 3 a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube wordnet
- 4 Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
"A: One cube or two? B: Oh, no sugar for me, thanks."
- 5 any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone wordnet
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- 6 The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
"The cube of 2 is 8."
- 7 the product of three equal terms wordnet
- 8 A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube.
- 9 a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides wordnet
- 10 A Rubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube.
- 11 a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces wordnet
- 12 Clipping of cubic inch(es). abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
"As if the 383 weren't already a roaring beast, in 1972 they bored it out some more, bringing it up to 400 cubes. This 400-cube monster could launch a land yacht like the Plymouth Fury from zero to sixty in under ten seconds."
- 13 An extremely socially conventional or conservative person, moreso than even a square. dated
- 1 To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice. transitive
"Three cubed can be written as 3³, and equals twenty-seven."
- 2 raise to the third power wordnet
- 3 To form into the shape of a cube. transitive
- 4 cut into cubes wordnet
- 5 To cut into cubes. transitive
"Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice."
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- 6 To use a Rubik's cube. intransitive
"He likes to cube now and then."
Etymology
From Old French cube, from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).
From Old French cube, from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).
From Old French cube, from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).
Clipped form of cubicle (with intentional reference to their common shape per cube, etymology 1), which from Latin cubiculum (“a small bedchamber or lounge”), from cubare (“to lie down”).
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