cube
cube Lexical Profile
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• noun
A symmetrical three-dimensional solid object bounded by six equal square faces, with all adjacent faces meeting at right angles.
"The child stacked the wooden blocks, carefully placing a small red cube on top of the tower."
A block of something, typically food, cut or formed into a roughly cubical shape.
"She dropped an ice cube into her lemonade to cool it down on a hot summer afternoon."
The product of a number multiplied by its square; the third power of a numerical quantity.
"In mathematics, the cube of three is twenty-seven."
• verb
To cut into small, roughly cubical pieces (especially food during preparation).
"The recipe requires you to peel and cube the potatoes before boiling them."
To multiply a number by itself twice, thereby raising it to the third power.
"If you cube the number two, the resulting value is eight."
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Middle English, via Old French 'cube', from Latin 'cubus', which derives from Ancient Greek 'kúbos' (meaning a cube, a die, or a vertebra).
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