cube — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.

   Beispiele

   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.

2. Any object more or less in the form of a cube.

   Beispiele

   A: One cube or two? B: Oh, no sugar for me, thanks.

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

   Antonyme

   cube root

   Beispiele

   The cube of 2 is 8.

   The cube of 0.5 is 0.125.

4. 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.

6. An extremely socially conventional or conservative person, more so than even a square.

   Gebrauch

   • veraltend

Verb

1. To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

   Beispiele

   Three cubed can be written as 3³, and equals twenty-seven.

   Weitere Beispiele (1)

   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. To form into the shape of a cube.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

3. To cut into cubes.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

   Beispiele

   Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice.

4. To use a Rubik's cube.

   Gebrauch

   • intransitiv

   Beispiele

   He likes to cube now and then.

Adjektiv

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

   Gebrauch

   • not-comparable
   • postpositional

   Verwandte Wörter

   cubiccubicalcuboidcubismcubistline segmentsquaretesseract

   Beispiele

   Weitere Beispiele (1)

   Beautiful peepshows with hand-coloured engravings by Martin Englebrecht, 1684-1756, were produced in Augsburg about 1740. The box, about six inches cube, 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.

Substantiv

1. A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.

   Beispiele

   My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube.

Substantiv

1. a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces

   Synonyme

   regular hexahedron

   Oberbegriffe

   regular polyhedronregular convex solidregular convex polyhedronPlatonic bodyPlatonic solidideal solid

2. a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides

   Synonyme

   block

   Oberbegriffe

   solid

3. the product of three equal terms

   Synonyme

   third power

   Oberbegriffe

   number

4. any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone

   Oberbegriffe

   subshrubsuffrutex

5. a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube

   Synonyme

   square block

   Oberbegriffe

   block

Verb

1. raise to the third power

   Oberbegriffe

   multiply

2. cut into cubes

   Synonyme

   dice

   Oberbegriffe

   cut

   Beispiele

   cube the cheese