cube

1. noun /kjuːb,kjub/

a) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.

a sugar cube

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

a stock cube

Syn: regular hexahedron, block, brick, die, square block, third, power

2. verb /kjuːb,kjub/

a) To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.

Three cubed can be written as 3, and equals twenty-seven.

b) To form into the shape of a cube.

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

Syn: dice

See Also: cubic, cubical, cuboid, cubism, cubist