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English
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Etymology 1
[edit]From Old French cube, from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kyo͞ob, IPA(key): /kjuːb/
- (US) enPR: kyo͞ob, IPA(key): /kjub/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -uːb
Noun
[edit]cube (plural cubes)
- (geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
- Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
- a sugar cube
- (mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
- the cube of 2 is 8
- (computing) 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
Synonyms
[edit]- (geometry: polyhedron having of six identical square faces): regular hexahedron (rare)
- (object in the form of a cube): block, brick, die, square block
- (number raised to the third power): third power
Hypernyms
[edit]- (geometry: polyhedron having of six identical square faces): hexahedron, cuboid
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (Platonic solids): tetrahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron
Translations
[edit]geometry: polyhedron having of six identical square faces
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object more or less in the form of a cube
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arithmetic: number raised to the third power
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Verb
[edit]cube (third-person singular simple present cubes, present participle cubing, simple past and past participle cubed)
- (transitive, arithmetic) 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.
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:
- From this severe trial Mr. Nackybal emerged with distinction, having in his cubing made only twenty-five slight mistakes out of the forty-six cubes demanded, and in his rooting, out of the fifty-three extractions propounded, committed a mere matter of four trifling errors!
- (transitive) To form into the shape of a cube.
- (transitive) To cut into cubes.
- Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice.
- (intransitive) To use a Rubik's cube.
- He likes to cube now and then.
Synonyms
[edit]- (to cut into cubes): dice
Translations
[edit]arithmetic: to raise to the third power
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to form into the shape of a cube
to cut into cubes
Derived terms
[edit]- 4-cube
- bath cube
- bouillon cube
- broth cube
- cube candle
- cube farm
- cube juice
- cube map
- cube out
- cube root
- cube rule
- cube-square law
- cube steak
- cube sugar
- cube van
- cube with handles
- cubiform
- cubo-cube
- doubling cube
- duplication of the cube
- high cube
- Hilbert cube
- hypercube
- ice cube
- ice cube tray
- magic cube
- Necker cube
- Oxo cube
- pawn cube
- perfect cube
- photo cube
- puzzle cube
- Rubik cube
- Rubik's cube
- scale cube
- Sierpinski cube
- snub cube
- speed cube
- square-cube law
- stock cube
- sugar cube
- tip of the ice cube
- truncated cube
- Tychonoff cube
Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]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
[edit]cube (plural cubes)
- A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
- My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube.
Translations
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[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cube m (plural cubes)
- cube (all senses)
- third-grader
Descendants
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cube (plural cubes)
Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]cube
- inflection of cuber:
Further reading
[edit]- “cube”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
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[edit]cube f
Latin
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Portuguese
[edit]Verb
[edit]cube
- inflection of cubar:
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