cube

Speech parts

1. cube - Noun

2. cube - Verb

Meaning

A regular solid body, with six equal square sides.

The product obtained by taking a number or quantity three times as a factor; as, 4x4=16, and 16x4=64, the cube of 4.

To raise to the third power; to obtain the cube of.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

regular hexahedron block dice brick hexahedron square block third power mass jacob pulley quadrilateral power third section square
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Antonyms

total object unit ball entity package
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Hypernyms

number cut block solid multiply Platonic solid

Hyponyms

die dice goldbrick quadrate ice cube tesseract

Phrases with the word

cube ice oxo bouillon cube oxo broth cube gambling cube luck cube in the form of a cube

Derivatives

cubed cubing

Anagrams

Cebu

Examples

The formula for water is H2O. Is the formula for an ice cube H2O squared. Lily Tomlin

A spade may be made of any size, and if the same number of strokes be made in the hour, the requisite exertion will vary nearly as the cube of the length of the blade. William Stanley Jevons

The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life. Erno Rubik

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror. Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I'm an ice sculptor - last night I made a cube. Mitch Hedberg

Do you have a lot of other profound thoughts like that? Blood is blood? A toaster is a toaster? A Gelatinous Cube is a Gelatinous Cube? Cassandra Clare

Close letter words and terms

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