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cube¹
- /kjuːb/ UK
- /kjub/ US
Rhymes with -uːb
Where it comes from
From Old French cube, from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).
Displaced Old English tæfel ("cube, die, game with dice or tables").
noun cubes
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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.
Similar: regular hexahedron
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Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
A: One cube or two? B: Oh, no sugar for me, thanks.
Similar: block, brick, die, square block
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The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
The cube of 2 is 8.
Similar: third power · Opposite: cube root
- A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube.
- A Rubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube.
- Clipping of cubic inch(es) 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.
- An extremely socially conventional or conservative person, more so than even a square.
verb cubes · cubing · cubed
- To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice. Three cubed can be written as 3³, and equals twenty-seven.
- To form into the shape of a cube.
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To cut into cubes.
Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice.
Similar: dice
- To use a Rubik's cube. He likes to cube now and then.
adjective
- Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself twice. 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 'curt
cube²
Where it comes from
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”).
noun cubes
- A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices. My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: block, dice, regular hexahedron, square block, third power, cubic, metre, piece, boss, bloc, meter, cubicle, hub, sprocket, bin, wheel
Translations
Every language
noun geometry: polyhedron having of six identical square faces
| Español | cubo |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 정육면체 jeong'yungmyeonche, 입방체 ipbangche |
| 日本語 | 立方体 rippōtai, 正六面体 seirokumentai |
| 中文 | 立方體 /立方体 lìfāngtǐ |
| हिन्दी | घन ghan |
| Português | cubo |
| Français | cube |
| Deutsch | Kubus, Würfel |
| Italiano | cubo |
| Ελληνικά | κύβος kývos |
| Română | cub |
| Русский | куб kub |
| Tiếng Việt | hình lập phương |
| العربية | كَعْبَة kaʕba, مُكَعَّب mukaʕʕab |
| עברית | קובייה, קֻבִּיָּה kubiá |
noun object more or less in the form of a cube
| Español | cubo, terrón, cubito, pastilla |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 角砂糖 kakuzatō |
| 中文 | 方塊 /方块 fāngkuài |
| हिन्दी | घन ghan |
| Português | cubo |
| Deutsch | Würfel |
| Italiano | cubo, dado, cuboide |
| Русский | куб kub, ку́бик kúbik |
| العربية | كَعْبَة kaʕba |
| עברית | קובייה, קֻבִּיָּה kubiá |
noun arithmetic: number raised to the third power
| Español | cubo |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 세제곱 sejegop, 삼승 samseung, 입방 ipbang |
| 日本語 | 三乗 sanjō, 立方 rippō |
| 中文 | 立方 lìfāng |
| Português | cubo |
| Français | cube |
| Italiano | cubo |
| Ελληνικά | κύβος kývos |
| Русский | куб kub |
| Tiếng Việt | lập phương |
| עברית | בחזקת שלוש be'khezqat shalosh |
verb arithmetic: to raise to the third power
| Español | elevar al cub, elevar a la tercera potencia |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 三次方 sāncìfāng |
| Português | cubar, elevar ao cubo, elevar à terceira potência |
| Italiano | elevare al cubo, (potenza) elevare alla terza |
| Русский | возводи́ть в куб vozvodítʹ v kub |
verb to form into the shape of a cube
| 中文 | 形成立方體 /形成立方体 xíngchéng lìfāngtǐ |
|---|---|
| Português | dar forma de cubo a |
verb to cut into cubes
| 日本語 | さいの目に切る sainome ni kiru |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 切成方塊 /切成方块 qiēchéng fāngkuài |
| Deutsch | würfeln |
| Italiano | cubettare |
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