cubenoun詞源 1/kjuːb/

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

  • A: One cube or two? B: Oh, no sugar for me, thanks.
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  mathematicssciencesThe third power of a number, value, term or expression.

  • The cube of 2 is 8.
  • The cube of 0.5 is 0.125.
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  computingengineeringmathematicsA data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube.

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

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

cubeverb詞源 1/kjuːb/

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

  • Three cubed can be written as 3³, and equals twenty-seven.
  • 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!
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  To form into the shape of a cube.

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  To cut into cubes.

  • Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice.
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  To use a Rubik's cube.

  • He likes to cube now and then.

cubeadj詞源 1/kjuːb/

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

  • 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.

cubenoun詞源 2

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  A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.

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