cube.
A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
Meaning & usage
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.
Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
A: One cube or two? B: Oh, no sugar for me, thanks.
The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
The cube of 2 is 8.
The cube of 0.5 is 0.125.
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.
Where this word 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").
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.
To cut into cubes.
Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice.
To use a Rubik's cube.
He likes to cube now and then.
Where this word 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").
Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself twice.
Where this word 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").
A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube.
Where this word 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”).
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