cube

A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.

• 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.

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

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

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

• The cube of 2 is 8.
• The cube of 0.5 is 0.125.

A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube.

A Rubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube.

Clipping of cubic inch(es).abbreviationalt-ofclipping

• As if the 383 weren't already a roaring beast, in 1972 they bored it out some more, bringing it up to 400 cubes. This 400-cube monster could launch a land yacht like the Plymouth Fury from zero to sixty in under ten seconds.

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

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

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

To form into the shape of a cube.transitive

To cut into cubes.transitive

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

To use a Rubik's cube.intransitive

• He likes to cube now and then.

Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself twice.not-comparablepostpositional

• 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,

A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.

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