Sekirov Dictionary

cube

/kjuːb/

noun 8
verb 4
adjective 1
forms 3
phrases 2

noun8

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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.
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Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
- A: One cube or two? B: Oh, no sugar for me, thanks.
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The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
- The cube of 2 is 8.
- The cube of 0.5 is 0.125.
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A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
- My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube.
A Rubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube.
A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube.
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(informal) 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.
(old-fashioned) An extremely socially conventional or conservative person, more so than even a square.

verb4

To form into the shape of a cube.
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To cut into cubes.
- Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice.
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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.
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To use a Rubik's cube.
- He likes to cube now and then.

adjective[after a noun]1

Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself twice.

forms

cubed · cubing · cubes

Phrases with cube

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