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cube

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See also: cubé, чубе, and cubë

English

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A cube

Etymology 1

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From Old French cube, from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).

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Noun

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cube (plural cubes)

  1. (geometry) 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. Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
    Hyponyms: sugar cube, stock cube
    A: One cube or two? B: Oh, no sugar for me, thanks.
  4. (mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
    Antonym: cube root
    The cube of 2 is 8.
    The cube of 0.5 is 0.125.
  5. (computing) A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube.
  6. A Rubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube.
  8. (informal, automotive) 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.
  10. (1950s slang, dated) An extremely socially conventional or conservative person, moreso than even a square.
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Verb

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cube (third-person singular simple present cubes, present participle cubing, simple past and past participle cubed)

  1. (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, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →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!
  2. (transitive) To form into the shape of a cube.
  3. (transitive) To cut into cubes.
    Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice.
  4. (intransitive) To use a Rubik's cube.
    He likes to cube now and then.
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  • (to cut into cubes): dice
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Adjective

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cube (not comparable)

  1. (postpositive) Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself twice.
    • 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 181:
      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.

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Etymology 2

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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

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cube (plural cubes)

  1. 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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Albanian

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Etymology 1

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

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cube

  1. feminine singular of cub (“bobtailed”)

Noun

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cube

  1. indefinite dative/ablative singular of cubë

Etymology 2

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From Tosk variant cupe, from cup (“odd”). Similar formation with teke, meaning single-barrel gun, and çifte.[1]

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Noun

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cube f (plural cube, definite cubja, definite plural cubet)

  1. pocket pistol, small gun[2]
    Synonyms: topanxhë, dungë, teke
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Declension of cube
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative cube cubja cube cubet
accusative cuben
dative cubeje cubes cubeve cubeve
ablative cubesh

References

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  1. ^ Çabej, E. (1987), “cube”, in Studime etimologjike në fushë të shqipes (in Albanian), volumes III: C–D, Tirana, page 59
  2. ^ Mann, S. E. (1948), “cube”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 51

French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).

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cube m (plural cubes)

  1. cube (all senses)
  2. third-grader

Descendants

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  • → Romanian: cub
  • → Turkish: küp

Adjective

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cube (plural cubes)

  1. cubic

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Verb

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cube

  1. inflection of cuber:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈku.be/
  • Rhymes: -ube
  • Hyphenation: cù‧be

Adjective

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cube f

  1. feminine plural of cubo

Latin

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cube

  1. vocative singular of cubus

Portuguese

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Verb

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cube

  1. inflection of cubar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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