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See also:cubé,чубе,andcubë

English

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A cube

Etymology 1

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FromOld Frenchcube, fromLatincubus, fromAncient Greekκύβος(kúbos).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cube (pluralcubes)

  1. (geometry) Aregularpolyhedron having six identical square faces.
    When the math teacher is teaching the class aboutcubes, he asks them to imagine a cardboard box whose width, length, and height are all the same.
  2. Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
    Hyponyms:sugar cube,stock cube
    A: Onecube or two? B: Oh, no sugar for me, thanks.
  4. (mathematics) The thirdpower of anumber,value,term or expression.
    Antonym:cube root
    Thecube of 2 is 8.
    Thecube of 0.5 is 0.125.
  5. (computing) Adata structure consisting of athree-dimensionalarray; adata cube.
  6. ARubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube.
  8. (informal, automotive)Clipping ofcubic inch(es).
    As if the 383 weren't already a roaring beast, in 1972 they bored it out some more, bringing it up to 400cubes. This 400-cube monster could launch a land yacht like the Plymouth Fury from zero to sixty in under ten seconds.
  10. (1950s slang, dated) An extremely sociallyconventional orconservative person, moreso than even asquare.
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Coordinate terms
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Translations
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geometry: polyhedron having of six identical square faces
object more or less in the form of a cube
arithmetic: number raised to the third power
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Verb

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cube (third-person singular simple presentcubes,present participlecubing,simple past and past participlecubed)

  1. (transitive, arithmetic) To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.
    Threecubed can be written as 33, and equals twenty-seven.
    • 1953,Samuel Beckett,Watt,[Paris]:Olympia Press,→OCLC:
      From this severe trial Mr. Nackybal emerged with distinction, having in hiscubing 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 aRubik's cube.
    He likes tocube now and then.
Synonyms
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  • (to cut into cubes):dice
Translations
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arithmetic: to raise to the third power
to form into the shape of a cube
to cut into cubes

Adjective

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cube (notcomparable)

  1. (postpositive)Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself twice.
    • 1971, Gwen White,Antique Toys And Their Background, page181:
      Beautiful peepshows with hand-coloured engravings by Martin Englebrecht, 1684-1756, were produced in Augsburg about 1740. The box, about six inchescube, 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.

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See also

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Etymology 2

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Clipped form ofcubicle (with intentional reference to their common shape percube, etymology 1), which fromLatincubiculum(“a small bedchamber or lounge”), fromcubare(“to lie down”).

Noun

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cube (pluralcubes)

  1. Acubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
    My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of mycube.
Translations
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cubicle

Anagrams

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Albanian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

Adjective

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cube

  1. femininesingular ofcub(“bobtailed”)

Noun

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cube

  1. indefinitedative/ablativesingular ofcubë

Etymology 2

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FromTosk variantcupe, fromcup(“odd”). Similar formation withteke, meaningsingle-barrelgun, andçifte.[1]

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Noun

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cube f (pluralcube,definitecubja,definite pluralcubet)

  1. pocket pistol,smallgun[2]
    Synonyms:topanxhë,dungë,teke
Declension
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Declension ofcube
singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativecubecubjacubecubet
accusativecuben
dativecubejecubescubevecubeve
ablativecubesh

References

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  1. ^Çabej,E. (1987), “cube”, inStudime etimologjike në fushë të shqipes (in Albanian), volumes III: C–D, Tirana, page59
  2. ^Mann,S. E. (1948), “cube”, inAn Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page51

French

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatincubus, fromAncient Greekκύβος(kúbos).

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Noun

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cube m (pluralcubes)

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

Descendants

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Adjective

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cube (pluralcubes)

  1. cubic

Derived terms

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Verb

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cube

  1. inflection ofcuber:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
    2. second-personsingularimperative

Further reading

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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cube f

  1. feminineplural ofcubo

Latin

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Noun

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cube

  1. vocativesingular ofcubus

Portuguese

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Verb

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cube

  1. inflection ofcubar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative
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