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cube

noun

  1. three-dimensional solid object bounded by six square sides
  2. a number raised to the third power
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verb

  1. raise a number to its third power
  2. cut something into cubes
  3. knead a cube
  4. apply a cube shape to something
  5. reform according to the form of a cube
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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").

  1. 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”).

  1. 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").

  1. 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!

  2. To form into the shape of a cube.
  3. To cut into cubes.

    Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice.

  4. To use a Rubik's cube.

    He likes to cube now and then.