cube

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See also: cubé and чубе

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A cube

Etymology 1

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

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Noun

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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Verb

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, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:
      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

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”).

Noun

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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French

Etymology

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

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Noun

cube m (plural cubes)

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

Descendants

  • → Romanian: cub
  • → Turkish: küp

Adjective

cube (plural cubes)

  1. cubic

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Verb

cube

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

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Italian

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

cube f

  1. feminine plural of cubo

Latin

Noun

cube

  1. vocative singular of cubus

Portuguese

Verb

cube

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