cube
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English [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
From Old French cube, from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kubos).
Pronunciation [edit]
- (RP) enPR: kyo͞ob, IPA: /kjuːb/, X-SAMPA: /kju:b/
- (US) enPR: kyo͞ob, IPA: /kjub/, X-SAMPA: /kjub/
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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
- a stock 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
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
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.
- (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.
- (UK) 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 cut into cubes
to form into the shape of a cube
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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.
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French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kubos).
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
cube m (plural cubes)
Italian [edit]
Adjective [edit]
cube f
- Feminine plural form of cubo
Latin [edit]
Noun [edit]
cube
- vocative singular of cubus
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- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English nouns
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- en:Mathematics
- en:Computing
- English verbs
- en:Arithmetic
- British English
- en:Rubik's Cube
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms derived from Ancient Greek
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
- Italian adjective forms
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