cube
noun
- three-dimensional solid object bounded by six square sides
- a number raised to the third power
verb
- raise a number to its third power
- cut something into cubes
- knead a cube
- apply a cube shape to something
- reform according to the form of a cube
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /kjuːb/ / /kjub/
adj
Etymology: 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.
“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.”
noun
Etymology: 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”).
- A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
“My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube.”
verb
Etymology: 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.”
“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!”
- 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.”