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English noun: cube | |||
| 1. | cube (shape) a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces | ||
| Synonyms | regular hexahedron | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | ideal solid, Platonic body, Platonic solid, regular convex polyhedron, regular convex solid, regular polyhedron | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | quadrate, tesseract | ||
| 2. | cube (shape) a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides | ||
| Synonyms | block | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | solid | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | goldbrick | ||
| 3. | cube (quantity) the product of three equal terms | ||
| Synonyms | third power | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | number | ||
| 4. | cube (plant) 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 | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | subshrub, suffrutex | ||
| Member meronym | genus Lonchocarpus, Lonchocarpus | ||
| 5. | cube (artifact) a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube | ||
| Synonyms | square block | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | block | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | dice, die, ice cube | ||
English verb: cube | |||
| 1. | cube (cognition) raise to the third power | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | multiply | ||
| Domain category | arithmetic | ||
| 2. | cube (contact) cut into cubes | ||
| Samples | Cube the cheese. | ||
| Examples | The chefs cube the vegetables | ||
| Synonyms | dice | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cut | ||
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