cube

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to cut into cubes

   cube the cheese

2. 2
   noun

   A 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.

3. 3
   noun

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

   A: One cube or two? B: Oh, no sugar for me, thanks.

4. 4
   noun

   The third power of a number, value, term or expression.

   The cube of 2 is 8.

5. 5
   noun

   Clipping of cubic inch(es).

   As if the 383 weren't already a roaring beast, in 1972 they bored it out some more, bringing it up to 400 cubes. This 400-cube monster could launch a land yacht like the Plymouth Fury from zero to sixty in under ten seconds.

6. 6
   verb

   To 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.

7. 7
   verb

   To cut into cubes.

   Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice.

8. 8
   verb

   To use a Rubik's cube.

   He likes to cube now and then.

Etymology

Clipped form of cubicle (with intentional reference to their common shape per cube, etymology 1), which from Latin cubiculum (“a small bedchamber or lounge”), from cubare (“to lie down”).