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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cube
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an ice cube (=a small square piece of ice that you add to a drink)
▪ She put a couple of ice cubes in her glass.
bouillon cube
cube root
▪ 4 is the cube root of 64
ice cube
stock cube
sugar cube
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
small
▪ Even though it was just a small black cube, it somehow always looked more alert when it was listening.
▪ Scallops come in two sizes: the large white cubes from sea scallops and the smaller pinkish cubes from bay scallops.
▪ Peel the cucumber, cut into small cubes of similar size to the melon cubes.
▪ He often ran errands for Fong in return for jelly beans or small cubes of greasy homemade soap.
▪ Cut the brioche trimmings into small cubes.
▪ Cut the pepper in half, discard the seeds and stem and chop the flesh into small cubes.
▪ Where two small cubes meet fact to face I shall put glue on one of the two faces.
■ NOUN
ice
▪ Add the ice cubes and chill for at least 1 hour.
▪ Karen took some ice cubes from the freezer and poured the soda.
▪ Cooking such small amounts of food can be fiddly and time consuming so try freezing baby-sized portions in ice cube trays.
▪ Or put some ice cubes in the sieve before straining the soup, Roraback suggests.
▪ Hannah had poured herself a dry Martini and put in ice cubes and lemon.
▪ The ice cubes will help to cool the soup and attract any fat globules.
▪ I improvised by putting colour into an ice cube tray - thus giving me deep wells and plenty of colour.
▪ I fetched ice cubes in the middle of the night to try to numb the backs of my legs.
stock
▪ In the meantime, cook the rice according to the instructions, using the pilau rice stock cube.
sugar
▪ And then again, but this time on a coffee spoon, with the other half of the sugar cube.
■ VERB
cut
▪ Peel the cucumber, cut into small cubes of similar size to the melon cubes.
▪ Press the skin so the cubes pop out. Cut mango cubes off the skin.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cubes of Cheddar cheese
▪ Cut the melon into 2cm cubes and leave to soak in some port or red wine.
▪ For a joke, he put an ice cube down the back of her dress.
▪ She dropped a cube of sugar into her tea and stirred it with a spoon.
▪ Would you get me some ice cubes out of the freezer?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cooking such small amounts of food can be fiddly and time consuming so try freezing baby-sized portions in ice cube trays.
▪ I fetched ice cubes in the middle of the night to try to numb the backs of my legs.
▪ Karen took some ice cubes from the freezer and poured the soda.
▪ Place the thread on the ice cube and put salt on it, especially near the thread. 4.
▪ Toni filled the glasses with ice cubes and watched as Letia slid two thick red steaks under the broiler.
▪ We can also let any point inside the cube be input too.
▪ We start by picking up and examining the cube.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ 3 cubed is 27
▪ The dish is made with cubed pieces of steak.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But to suppose that this picture bears the faintest resemblance to what the Labour leadership wants betrays something like paranoia cubed.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cube

Cube \Cube\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cubed (k[=u]bd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cubing.] To raise to the third power; to obtain the cube of.

Cube

Cube \Cube\ (k[=u]b), n. [F. cube, L. cubus, fr. Gr. ???? a cube, a cubical die.]

  1. (Geom.) A regular solid body, with six equal square sides.

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

    Cube ore (Min.), pharmacosiderite. It commonly crystallizes in cubes of a green color.

    Cube root. (Math.), the number or quantity which, multiplied into itself, and then into the product, produces the given cube; thus, 3 is the cube root of 27, for 3x3x3 = 27.

    Cube spar (Min.), anhydrite; anhydrous calcium sulphate.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cube

1550s, from Middle French cube (13c.) and directly from Latin cubus, from Greek kybos "a cube, a six-sided die, vertebra," perhaps from PIE root *keu(b)- "to bend, turn." Mathematical sense is from 1550s in English (it also was in the ancient Greek word: the Greeks threw with three dice; the highest possible roll was three sixes).

cube

1580s in the mathematical sense; 1947 with meaning "cut in cubes," from cube (n.). The Greek verbal derivatives from the noun all referred to dice-throwing and gambling. Related: Cubed; cubing.

Wiktionary
cube

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context geometry English) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces. 2 Any object more or less in the form of a cube. 3 (context mathematics English) The third power of a number, value, term or expression. 4 (context computing English) A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube vb. 1 (context transitive arithmetic English) To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice. 2 (context transitive English) To form into the shape of a cube. 3 (context transitive English) To cut into cubes. 4 (context UK English) to use a Rubik's cube. Etymology 2

n. A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.

WordNet
cube
  1. v. raise to the third power

  2. cut into cubes; "cube the cheese" [syn: dice]

cube
  1. n. a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides [syn: block]

  2. a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces [syn: regular hexahedron]

  3. the product of three equal terms [syn: third power]

  4. 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

  5. a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube [syn: square block]

Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Cube (film)

Cube is a 1997 Canadian science fiction horror film directed and co-written by Vincenzo Natali. The film was a product of the Canadian Film Centre's First Feature Project. The film follows a group of people led by Quentin, a policeman, as they cross industrialized cube-shaped rooms, with some rigged with various traps designed to kill.

Cube gained notoriety for its surreal atmosphere and Kafkaesque setting, with the industrial, cube-shaped room design and concept. Since its release, the film received polarizing, yet favorable reviews, out of a mix of middling or negative reviews, and has since gained a cult following. The film spawned a film series, and a remake is currently in development at Lionsgate.

Cube (disambiguation)

A cube is any regular, six-sided, three-dimensional solid object.

Cube may also refer to:

Cube (algebra)

In arithmetic and algebra, the cube of a number is its third power: the result of the number multiplied by itself twice:

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It is also the number multiplied by its square:

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This is also the volume formula for a geometric cube with sides of length , giving rise to the name. The inverse operation of finding a number whose cube is is called extracting the cube root of . It determines the side of the cube of a given volume. It is also raised to the one-third power.

Both cube and cube root are odd functions:

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The cube of a number or any other mathematical expression is denoted by a superscript 3, for example or .

Cube (video game)

Cube is a first-person shooter video game that shares the name of its free and open-source engine ( zlib-licensed). The engine and game were developed by Wouter van Oortmerssen.

It runs on a variety of operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OS X, AmigaOS 4, AROS, iPhone, Wii and even Pocket PC devices with 3D acceleration such as Dell Axim x50v. It uses OpenGL and SDL. Cube features both single-player and multiplayer gameplay. The game contains a built-in level editor.

The game was originally released in 2001. The first release with single-player mode was in January 2002. The latest update of Cube was released on August 29, 2005. A popular spin-off called AssaultCube was released on November 2006.

Cube (film series)

Cube is a Canadian psychological thriller horror film series. The three films were directed by Vincenzo Natali, Andrzej Sekuła, and Ernie Barbarash respectively.

All three films are centered, with slight variations, on the same science-fictional setting: a gigantic, mechanized cubical structure of unknown purpose and origin, made up of numerous smaller cubical rooms, in which most or all of the principal characters inexplicably awaken in the opening scenes. Each of these rooms has six heavy vault doors, one on each face of the cube, which lead into adjacent, largely identical rooms, differing occasionally by colour of lighting. Some of these rooms are "safe", while others are equipped with deadly booby traps such as flamethrowers and razorwire. In some cases it is possible to detect a trap by throwing an object into the room first, although this method is not always reliable due to the trigger mechanism of certain traps.

In each case, a group of strangers awakens in this mysterious structure, without any knowledge of how or why they are there. In order to escape from the prison, they must band together and use their combined skills and talents to avoid the traps and navigate out of the maze, while also trying to solve the mystery of what the cube is and why they are in it. However, the pressure of being in the Cube generally turns one of the prisoners into a homicidal maniac who preys on the others.

Cube Zero was slightly different from the first two films in that it also dealt with the people on the outside of the Cube whose job it was to control the cube and oversee those within.

A fourth film was rumored in March 2011, and a remake of the first film was announced in April 2015.

Cube (comics)
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Usage examples of "cube".

Nysander opened his hand to show Alec a small cube of green stone, incised on each side with tiny symbols.

Sivaraksa made a quick, cursive annotation in the notebook he had opened on his desk, then slid it beneath the smoky gray cube of a paperweight.

Have carrots cut in small cubes or straws, turnips and beet root the same, green string beans cut in small pieces, asparagus and peas, all cooked separately until tender.

Ralph Bales stepped into a phone booth, whose floor was covered with the tiny blue cubes from its four shattered windows.

He had drawn a three dimensional cube on the blackboard, ABCDEFGH, like the outline of a glass box seen in perspective.

I shook and brushed myself dry, took a couple of food tablets, and put a new potassium chlorate cube in the electrolyser of the mask.

Lack of water had doubtless maddened him, and perhaps he had run out of chlorate cubes as well.

I have none too many chlorate cubes either, and must try to cut down my oxygen consumption as much as I can.

Must save chlorate cubes, so am nearly suffocating for lack of oxygen.

Behind his bed were two opaque cubes -- the wardrobe cubby and the shower-lavatory cube -- but when the hull was allowed to go transparent, these cubes were just dark blocks against the starfield all around and overhead.

Lyserge and Diethyl, or Big D and the Cube and the Hawk and the Blue Acid.

Master cubes containing digitized animals of the more exotic nature had not been used to date, but there was talk of establishing a major game preserve for them, since many were extinct in the wild back on Earth, while others were extinct everywhere but could be cloned from frozen DNA some farsighted programs had taken and preserved.

So they come here, do a little light pastoral work and rabble-rousing, and search for the cube in a very dwarfish way.

When they finished their meal, Cube thanked Etcetera and mounted Charles to travel on.

For these perfectly supple beings rejoiced in executing aerial evolutions, flinging out wild rhythmical streamers, intertwining with one another in spirals, concentrating into opaque spheres, cubes, cones, and all sorts of fantastical volumes.