cubes
|cube|
/kjuːb/
(cube)
three-dimensional square
Etymology
'cube' originates from Latin, specifically the word 'cubus', ultimately from Greek 'κύβος' where 'κύβος' meant 'a cube' or 'die'.
'cube' changed from Late Latin 'cubus' and passed into Old French and Middle English as 'cube', eventually becoming the modern English 'cube'.
Initially, it meant 'a cube or a die'; over time it kept that core sense and acquired mathematical uses such as 'a number raised to the third power'.
Meanings by Part of Speech
Noun 1
a regular three-dimensional solid bounded by six equal square faces; a six-faced box-shaped object.
The children stacked wooden cubes to make a tall tower.
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Noun 2
a number raised to the third power (the product of a number multiplied by itself twice).
Perfect cubes like 8 and 27 often appear in basic algebra problems.
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Noun 3
a small roughly cube-shaped piece of something (for example, an ice cube or a sugar cube).
She dropped three cubes of ice into the glass.
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Verb 1
third-person singular present form of 'cube': to cut or shape into cube-shaped pieces.
He cubes the potatoes before frying them.
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