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.
Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
A: One cube or two? B: Oh, no sugar for me, thanks.
The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
The cube of 2 is 8.
The cube of 0.5 is 0.125.
A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube.
A Rubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube.
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.
From this severe trial Mr. Nackybal emerged with distinction, having in his cubing made only twenty-five slight mistakes out of the forty-six cubes demanded, and in his rooting, out of the fifty-three extractions propounded, committed a mere matter of four trifling errors!
To form into the shape of a cube.
To cut into cubes.
Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice.
To use a Rubik's cube.
He likes to cube now and then.
adj
Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself twice.
Beautiful peepshows with hand-coloured engravings by Martin Englebrecht, 1684-1756, were produced in Augsburg about 1740. The box, about six inches cube, contained slots to take four cut-out scenes, the front of the box had another cut-out, and the back was painted with a landscape, making six 'curtains' in all.