cube

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

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kyo͞ob, IPA^(key): /kjuːb/
• (US) enPR: kyo͞ob, IPA^(key): /kjub/

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• Rhymes: -uːb

cube (plural cubes)

1. (geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
2. Any object more or less in the form of a cube.

   a sugar cube

   a stock cube

3. (mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.

   the cube of 2 is 8

4. (computing) A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube

• (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

• (geometry: polyhedron having of six identical square faces): hexahedron, cuboid

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.

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. (Britain) to use a Rubik's cube.

   He likes to cube now and then.

• (to cut into cubes): dice

• cubic
• cubical
• cuboid
• cubism
• cubist

• line segment
• square
• tesseract

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”).

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.

• Cebu

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

• IPA^(key): /kyb/

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cube m (plural cubes)

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

cube (plural cubes)

1. cubic

cube

1. first-person singular present indicative of cuber
2. third-person singular present indicative of cuber
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cuber
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cuber
5. second-person singular imperative of cuber

• “cube” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• Rhymes: -ube

cube f

1. Feminine plural form of cubo

cube

1. vocative singular of cubus

cube

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of cubar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of cubar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of cubar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of cubar