NOUN | shape | cube, regular hexahedron | a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces |
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shape | cube, block | a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides | |
quantity | cube, third power | the product of three equal terms | |
plant | cube | any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone | |
artifact | cube, square block | a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube | |
VERB | cognition | cube | raise to the third power |
contact | cube, dice | cut into cubes |
Sounds | kyuw'b | |
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Rhymes | boob ... tube: 6 rhymes with uwb... |
Meaning | A hexahedron with six equal squares as faces. | |
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Synonym | regular hexahedron | |
Narrower | quadrate | A cubelike object |
tesseract | The four-dimensional analogue of a cube | |
Broader | regular polyhedron, regular convex solid, regular convex polyhedron, Platonic body, Platonic solid, ideal solid | Any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent |
Spanish | cubo, hexaedro regular, terrón | |
Catalan | cub, hexaedre regular, hexàedre regular | |
Adjectives | cubic | having three dimensions |
cubical, cuboidal | shaped like a cube | |
Verbs | cube | cut into cubes |
Meaning | A three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides. | |
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Synonym | block | |
Narrower | goldbrick | A brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not |
Broader | solid | A three-dimensional shape |
Spanish | bloque, cubo | |
Catalan | bloc | |
Adjectives | cubic | having three dimensions |
cubic | involving the cube and no higher power of a quantity or variable | |
cubical, cuboidal | shaped like a cube | |
Verbs | cube | cut into cubes |
Meaning | The product of three equal terms. | |
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Synonym | third power | |
Broader | number | A concept of quantity involving zero and units |
Spanish | cubo | |
Catalan | cub | |
Adjectives | cubic | involving the cube and no higher power of a quantity or variable |
Verbs | cube | raise to the third power |
Meaning | Any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone. | |
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Member of | Lonchocarpus, genus Lonchocarpus | genus of chiefly tropical American shrubs and trees having pinnate leaves and red or white flowers |
Broader | subshrub, suffrutex | low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base |
Meaning | A block in the (approximate) shape of a cube. | |
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Synonym | square block | |
Narrower | die, dice | A small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces |
ice cube | A small cube of artificial ice | |
Broader | block | A solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides) |
Spanish | cubo, terrón | |
Adjectives | cubic | having three dimensions |
cubical | shaped like a cube |
Meaning | Raise to the third power. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Category | arithmetic | The branch of pure mathematics dealing with the theory of numerical calculations |
Broader | multiply | combine by multiplication |
Nouns | cube | the product of three equal terms |
Meaning | cut into cubes. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
Model | The chefs cube the vegetables | |
Example | "cube the cheese" | |
Synonym | dice | |
Broader | cut | separate with or as if with an instrument |
Spanish | cortar a dados, cubicar | |
Nouns | cube | a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces |
cube | a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides |
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