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Cube
Examples
The storage box was shaped like a cube.
02
a solid with six congruent square faces
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Inanimate
Composition
Simple
Countable
Plural form
cubes
Examples
The model showed a perfect cube with equal edges.
03
a block roughly resembling a cube in shape
Examples
She added a cube of ice to the glass.
04
a tropical American woody plant of the genus Lonchocarpus, whose roots are used as fish poison and as a commercial source of rotenone
Examples
Researchers documented how local communities harvest cube roots.
05
the result of multiplying a number by itself three times
Examples
The cube of two is eight.
to cube
01
to multiply a value or number by itself two times
Transitive: to cube a number
Intransitive
Grammatical Information
Composition
derived
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
cube
3rd person singular
cubes
Present participle
cubing
Past simple
cubed
Past participle
cubed
Examples
Cubing 2 gives you 2 × 2 × 2 = 8.
02
to cut something into small, equal, square-shaped pieces
Transitive: to cube food ingredients
Examples
She cubes the potatoes for the stew, ensuring they cook evenly.
Lexical Tree
cubelike
cubic
cubism
cube
