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cube

See also: cubé and чубе

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A cube

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

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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
  5. A Rubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube
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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.
    • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press:
      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. (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. (intransitive) To use a Rubik's cube.
    He likes to cube now and then.
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  • (to cut into cubes): dice
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Etymology 2 edit

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

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cube m (plural cubes)

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

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  • → Romanian: cub
  • → Turkish: küp

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cube (plural cubes)

  1. cubic

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cube

  1. inflection of cuber:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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  • IPA(key): /ˈku.be/
  • Rhymes: -ube
  • Hyphenation: cù‧be

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cube f

  1. feminine plural of cubo

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cube

  1. vocative singular of cubus

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cube

  1. inflection of cubar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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