cuben.¹

Brit.

/kjuːb/, U.S.

/kjub/

Etymology: < French cube (14th cent. in Littré) < late Latin cubus, < Greek κύβος a cube, originally a die for playing with.

a. Geometry. One of the five regular solids; a solid figure contained by six equal squares and eight rectangular solid angles; a regular hexahedron.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [noun] > cube or cuboid

cube1556

cuboid1890

the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [noun] > three-dimensional > prism > cube or cuboid

cube1556

cuboid1890

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxvii. 1367 And such a figure is ycleped cubus.]

1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 156 The cubes do beare the lyke rate cubikly multiplied, as if the sydes be as two to one.

1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. xi. f. 318 A Cube is a solide or bodely figure contayned vnder sixe equall squares.

1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. ii. 21 Spheres, or Cubes, or Pyramids, or Cones.

1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty 9 The most plain and regular forms, such as cubes and spheres.

1884 tr. H. Lotze Logic 229 As the side of a cube increases, its volume must also continuously increase, without any alteration in its shape.

b. A material body of this form; a cubical block of anything. e.g. of tea, sugar. Also attributive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [noun] > cube or cuboid > cube-shaped object or piece

cube1626

quadrel1686

quadrangle1853

cuboid1883

the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > [noun] > sugar > lump sugar

lump sugar1657

cube1897

lump1899

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §99 Take..a square Vessel of iron, in form of a Cube..put it into a Cube of Wood.

1863 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. iii. v. 342 The Chinese use pressed cubes of tea.

1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 17/3 Sugar..Cubes.

1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 8 July 11/3 The vessel's cargo consists of 110 tons of corn, 50 tons of bean coffee, 1,000 cases of cube sugar, [etc.].

1935 Discovery Aug. 240/1 Mr. Benn's host never went on an expedition without a large carton of cubes, which he handed out generously to those Mongolians whose tents they visited.

c. An extremely conventional or conservative person (cf. square n.). So Cubesville n. [after Squaresville n.] a group or set of such persons. slang.

ΚΠ

1959 J. Osborne World Paul Slickey ii. viii. 63 He's strictly from Cubesville.

1960 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 133/2 Cube, a super ‘square’;..an ultraconservative; a thorough bore.

1961 Woman 11 Mar. 5/1 No need to feel cubesville (that's worse than being a square) if you don't follow Kookie patter; even many Americans reckon it odd!

1963 Sunday Times 8 Sept. 29/3 As one who left school in July, I feel qualified to write of current oddities mentioned by ‘Old Squares’ (cubes in teenage slanguage).

1963 Telegraph (Brisbane) 24 May 17/2 Square itself is old hat. Too many adults cottoned on..the phrase and proclaimed ‘I'm a square’ in self defence. You'll simply be A Cube.

1967 ‘G. Bagby’ Corpse Candle x. 133 When I sang it to him..he told me I was a complete fool. Daisy Bell was for the cubes.

2. Arithmetic and Algebra. The product formed by multiplying any quantity into its square; the third power of a quantity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > multiplication > into or by itself > cube

cubic number1551

cube1557

cube-number1570

equilater1614

triplicate1769

1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Civ When I saie twoo tymes twoo, twise, maketh 8. that number is a sounde number: and is named a Cube.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. xii. 219 By perfect and sphericall numbers, by the square and cube of 7 and 9 and 12.

1734 tr. P. L. M. de Maupertuis Diss. Cœlestial Bodies 21 in J. Keill Exam. Burnet's Theory of Earth (ed. 2) The periodical Times of the several Planets, are in proportion to the square Roots of the Cubes of their distances from the Sun.

1838 A. De Morgan Ess. Probabilities 63 The sum of all the squares of numbers is nearly one third of the cube of the last number.

Compounds

C1.

† cube-bone n. Obsolete = cuboid bone at cuboid adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bones of hand or foot > bones of foot > [noun]

navicular?a1425

metatarsus?c1425

heel bone1516

astragalus?1541

bonket1552

cube-bone1615

die-bone1634

os calcis1634

foot bone1658

tarsus1676

pterna1684

talus1684

navicular bone1696

astragal1728

calcaneum1728

cuboid bone1829

cuboid1836

metatarsal1837

metapodium1844

tarso-metatarsal1851

arch1858

intermedium1878

tarsal1881

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 1007 The heele is articulated into a sinus of the Cube-bone.

cube foot n.

ΚΠ

1751 W. Halfpenny Designs Chinese Bridges ii. 8, 1040 Cube Feet of Timber.

cube-number n. one that is the cube of an integer.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > multiplication > into or by itself > cube

cubic number1551

cube1557

cube-number1570

equilater1614

triplicate1769

1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. vii. f. 186^v A cube number is..that which is contayned vnder three equall numbers.

cube-ore n. a name for pharmacosiderite n.

ΚΠ

1805 R. Jameson Syst. Mineral. II. 345 Cube-Ore.

cube powder n. gunpowder made in large cubical grains.

cube root n. that number of which the given number is the cube.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > root > cube

cubic root1551

cube root1696

1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Cube Root.

1827 O. Gregory Hutton's Course Math. (ed. 9) I. 8 ³√5, or 5^⅓, denotes the cube root of the number 5.

cube-spar n. a name for anhydrite n.

ΚΠ

1805 R. Jameson Syst. Mineral. II. 345 Cube Spar.

C2. Sometimes used after a measure expressing the length of the edge of a cube; e.g. 6 feet cube = of cubical form, and measuring 6 ft. in each direction, i.e. containing 6 × 6 × 6 or 216 cubic feet.

ΚΠ

1707 S. Clarke Third Def. Argument 18 The Magnitude of a foot cube of Matter..is made up of Inches cube.

1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 94 If the Pit was a Mile Cube.

1849 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Geol. (1850) ii. 74 Some of these were six feet cube.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

cuben.²

/ˈkuːbeɪ/

Etymology: < American Spanish cubé (also used).

One of several South American plants of the genus Lonchocarpus, having roots which contain rotenone, used as an insecticide.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding poison > plants yielding insecticide or used to repel insects > [noun]

fly-bane1597

bugbane1723

timbo1725

fly-agaric1788

rattleweed1793

cube1924

1924 Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric. no. 1201. 6 In 1920, while collecting fishes in Peru, Dr. W. R. Allen procured a supply of the dried roots of ‘cube’.

1930 Sci. Amer. Nov. 391 The cube plant now grows in a part of South America where the climate is similar to that of the Malay States.

1940 H. J. Holman Surv. Insecticide Mat. ii. 46 The bulk of the cube root and powder at present exported from Para and Manaos in Brazil is said to be derived from this species [sc. Lonchocarpus urucu].

1960 F. A. Gunther & L. R. Jeppson Mod. Insecticides xii. 197 The name cubé is employed in South America to refer to the principal native species of Lonchocarpus, L. nicou and L. utilis, which were used for poisoning fish, and it has now been adopted in commerce to describe roots of any Lonchocarpus species which also display pronounced insecticidal properties.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

cuben.³

Brit.

/kjuːb/, U.S.

/kjub/

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: cubicle n.

Etymology: Shortened < cubicle n. Compare cube n.¹

slang.

A small partitioned space for working, sleeping, etc.; a cubicle; spec. (in later use) an office compartment that is part of a larger open-plan workspace.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [noun] > an enclosed space or place > compartment or chamber

chambera1398

cellulea1400

partition1465

traversea1500

cell1577

concameration1638

apartment1679

thecaa1680

partitionment1851

compartment1866

cube1937

cubicle1938

society > occupation and work > workplace > [noun] > space to work

working rooma1651

working space1829

workspace1881

cube1988

1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 196/1 Cube, a cubicle: at certain Public Schools, e.g., Charterhouse. c. 20.

1966 C. Glyn Unicorn Girl x. 71 I was spreading ash on the muddy track to the wash cubes that evening, when I heard someone in one of the cubes say my name.

1988 N. Baker Mezzanine iv. 28 I walked to Tina's cube, on the outside wall of which was the sign-out board.

2003 A. N. LeBlanc Random Family xxi. 200 The inmate ‘cube’ facing hers belonged to a young Brazilian woman named Player.

2005 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 23 Mar. 12 She spends her days crunching numbers in a cube.

Compounds

cube farm n. an office divided into cubicles.

ΚΠ

1997 Los Angeles Times 2 June e3/2 Do you head for the cube farm every weekday morning anxious about being Dilberted?

2006 Entrepreneur (Nexis) 1 Jan. 19 Employees gaze longingly at each other from across crowded cube farms.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

cubev.

Brit.

/kjuːb/, U.S.

/kjub/

Etymology: corresponds to French cuber (1554 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter) and probably modern Latin cubāre , < Latin cubus cube n.¹

1. Arithmetic and Algebra. To raise (a quantity) to the third power; to find the cube of.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > perform arithmetic or algebraic operations [verb (transitive)] > multiply > by itself or raise to a particular power

quaderc1450

to multiply quadrantlya1552

square?a1560

cube1588

quadrate1613

square-square1670

involve1673

to raise to a power1675

cubify1676

figuratea1690

(to multiply) figuratelya1690

biquadrate1694

1588 C. Lucar tr. N. Tartaglia 3 Bks. Shooting 62 I did cube those foure ynches and the Cube thereof was 64.

1765–93 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (ed. 12) i. 275 Superficial measures are derived by squaring those of length; and measures of capacity by cubing them.

1827 O. Gregory Hutton's Course Math. (ed. 9) I. 8 8³, denotes that the number 8 is to be cubed.

2. Mensuration. To measure or compute the cubic content of.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > ascertain the bulk of [verb (transitive)] > measure or compute the cubic content of

cube1668

1668 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 3 686 He Cubeth or measureth either of the Segments of a Parabolical Conoid cut..parallel to the Axis.

1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Dec. 1/2 I have counted the inmates, cubed the rooms.

3. To pave with cubes or cubical blocks.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > paving and road-building > pave or build roads [verb (transitive)] > pave > pave with specific material

causeya1552

flag1615

causeway1744

metal1806

blind1812

macadamize1823

slab1832

flint1834

pebble1835

asphalt1872

concrete1875

cube1887

cobble1888

block1891

wood-block1908

tarmacadam1910

tarviate1926

tarmac1966

1887 Daily News 22 Oct. 2/4 They declined to cube the roadway beyond the statutory 18 inches outside their tram-lines.

4. To cut into small cubes.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [verb (transitive)] > cut into cubes

cube1947

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > division by cutting > divide by cutting [verb (transitive)] > cut into pieces > other

ring1839

cube1947

1947 Home Institute Cook Book (N.Y.) 23 Cube, to cut into small cubes or solids of six equal square sides.

1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 354/1 Slice or cube and serve hot with melted butter.

1960 A. Wesker Kitchen 17 Cube stale bread for onion soup.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹1556

n.²1924

n.³1937

v.1588

单词	cube
释义	cuben.¹ Brit. /kjuːb/, U.S. /kjub/ Etymology: < French cube (14th cent. in Littré) < late Latin cubus, < Greek κύβος a cube, originally a die for playing with. 1. a. Geometry. One of the five regular solids; a solid figure contained by six equal squares and eight rectangular solid angles; a regular hexahedron. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [noun] > cube or cuboid cube1556 cuboid1890 the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [noun] > three-dimensional > prism > cube or cuboid cube1556 cuboid1890 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxvii. 1367 And such a figure is ycleped cubus.] 1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 156 The cubes do beare the lyke rate cubikly multiplied, as if the sydes be as two to one. 1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. xi. f. 318 A Cube is a solide or bodely figure contayned vnder sixe equall squares. 1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. ii. 21 Spheres, or Cubes, or Pyramids, or Cones. 1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty 9 The most plain and regular forms, such as cubes and spheres. 1884 tr. H. Lotze Logic 229 As the side of a cube increases, its volume must also continuously increase, without any alteration in its shape. b. A material body of this form; a cubical block of anything. e.g. of tea, sugar. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [noun] > cube or cuboid > cube-shaped object or piece cube1626 quadrel1686 quadrangle1853 cuboid1883 the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > [noun] > sugar > lump sugar lump sugar1657 cube1897 lump1899 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §99 Take..a square Vessel of iron, in form of a Cube..put it into a Cube of Wood. 1863 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. iii. v. 342 The Chinese use pressed cubes of tea. 1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 17/3 Sugar..Cubes. 1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 8 July 11/3 The vessel's cargo consists of 110 tons of corn, 50 tons of bean coffee, 1,000 cases of cube sugar, [etc.]. 1935 Discovery Aug. 240/1 Mr. Benn's host never went on an expedition without a large carton of cubes, which he handed out generously to those Mongolians whose tents they visited. c. An extremely conventional or conservative person (cf. square n.). So Cubesville n. [after Squaresville n.] a group or set of such persons. slang. ΚΠ 1959 J. Osborne World Paul Slickey ii. viii. 63 He's strictly from Cubesville. 1960 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 133/2 Cube, a super ‘square’;..an ultraconservative; a thorough bore. 1961 Woman 11 Mar. 5/1 No need to feel cubesville (that's worse than being a square) if you don't follow Kookie patter; even many Americans reckon it odd! 1963 Sunday Times 8 Sept. 29/3 As one who left school in July, I feel qualified to write of current oddities mentioned by ‘Old Squares’ (cubes in teenage slanguage). 1963 Telegraph (Brisbane) 24 May 17/2 Square itself is old hat. Too many adults cottoned on..the phrase and proclaimed ‘I'm a square’ in self defence. You'll simply be A Cube. 1967 ‘G. Bagby’ Corpse Candle x. 133 When I sang it to him..he told me I was a complete fool. Daisy Bell was for the cubes. 2. Arithmetic and Algebra. The product formed by multiplying any quantity into its square; the third power of a quantity. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > multiplication > into or by itself > cube cubic number1551 cube1557 cube-number1570 equilater1614 triplicate1769 1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Civ When I saie twoo tymes twoo, twise, maketh 8. that number is a sounde number: and is named a Cube. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. xii. 219 By perfect and sphericall numbers, by the square and cube of 7 and 9 and 12. View more context for this quotation 1734 tr. P. L. M. de Maupertuis Diss. Cœlestial Bodies 21 in J. Keill Exam. Burnet's Theory of Earth (ed. 2) The periodical Times of the several Planets, are in proportion to the square Roots of the Cubes of their distances from the Sun. 1838 A. De Morgan Ess. Probabilities 63 The sum of all the squares of numbers is nearly one third of the cube of the last number. Compounds C1. † cube-bone n. Obsolete = cuboid bone at cuboid adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bones of hand or foot > bones of foot > [noun] navicular?a1425 metatarsus?c1425 heel bone1516 astragalus?1541 bonket1552 cube-bone1615 die-bone1634 os calcis1634 foot bone1658 tarsus1676 pterna1684 talus1684 navicular bone1696 astragal1728 calcaneum1728 cuboid bone1829 cuboid1836 metatarsal1837 metapodium1844 tarso-metatarsal1851 arch1858 intermedium1878 tarsal1881 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 1007 The heele is articulated into a sinus of the Cube-bone. cube foot n. ΚΠ 1751 W. Halfpenny Designs Chinese Bridges ii. 8, 1040 Cube Feet of Timber. cube-number n. one that is the cube of an integer. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > multiplication > into or by itself > cube cubic number1551 cube1557 cube-number1570 equilater1614 triplicate1769 1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. vii. f. 186^v A cube number is..that which is contayned vnder three equall numbers. cube-ore n. a name for pharmacosiderite n. ΚΠ 1805 R. Jameson Syst. Mineral. II. 345 Cube-Ore. cube powder n. gunpowder made in large cubical grains. cube root n. that number of which the given number is the cube. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > root > cube cubic root1551 cube root1696 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Cube Root. 1827 O. Gregory Hutton's Course Math. (ed. 9) I. 8 ³√5, or 5^⅓, denotes the cube root of the number 5. cube-spar n. a name for anhydrite n. ΚΠ 1805 R. Jameson Syst. Mineral. II. 345 Cube Spar. C2. Sometimes used after a measure expressing the length of the edge of a cube; e.g. 6 feet cube = of cubical form, and measuring 6 ft. in each direction, i.e. containing 6 × 6 × 6 or 216 cubic feet. ΚΠ 1707 S. Clarke Third Def. Argument 18 The Magnitude of a foot cube of Matter..is made up of Inches cube. 1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 94 If the Pit was a Mile Cube. 1849 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Geol. (1850) ii. 74 Some of these were six feet cube. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022). cuben.² /ˈkuːbeɪ/ Etymology: < American Spanish cubé (also used). One of several South American plants of the genus Lonchocarpus, having roots which contain rotenone, used as an insecticide. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding poison > plants yielding insecticide or used to repel insects > [noun] fly-bane1597 bugbane1723 timbo1725 fly-agaric1788 rattleweed1793 cube1924 1924 Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric. no. 1201. 6 In 1920, while collecting fishes in Peru, Dr. W. R. Allen procured a supply of the dried roots of ‘cube’. 1930 Sci. Amer. Nov. 391 The cube plant now grows in a part of South America where the climate is similar to that of the Malay States. 1940 H. J. Holman Surv. Insecticide Mat. ii. 46 The bulk of the cube root and powder at present exported from Para and Manaos in Brazil is said to be derived from this species [sc. Lonchocarpus urucu]. 1960 F. A. Gunther & L. R. Jeppson Mod. Insecticides xii. 197 The name cubé is employed in South America to refer to the principal native species of Lonchocarpus, L. nicou and L. utilis, which were used for poisoning fish, and it has now been adopted in commerce to describe roots of any Lonchocarpus species which also display pronounced insecticidal properties. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018). cuben.³ Brit. /kjuːb/, U.S. /kjub/ Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: cubicle n. Etymology: Shortened < cubicle n. Compare cube n.¹ slang. A small partitioned space for working, sleeping, etc.; a cubicle; spec. (in later use) an office compartment that is part of a larger open-plan workspace. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [noun] > an enclosed space or place > compartment or chamber chambera1398 cellulea1400 partition1465 traversea1500 cell1577 concameration1638 apartment1679 thecaa1680 partitionment1851 compartment1866 cube1937 cubicle1938 society > occupation and work > workplace > [noun] > space to work working rooma1651 working space1829 workspace1881 cube1988 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 196/1 Cube, a cubicle: at certain Public Schools, e.g., Charterhouse. c. 20. 1966 C. Glyn Unicorn Girl x. 71 I was spreading ash on the muddy track to the wash cubes that evening, when I heard someone in one of the cubes say my name. 1988 N. Baker Mezzanine iv. 28 I walked to Tina's cube, on the outside wall of which was the sign-out board. 2003 A. N. LeBlanc Random Family xxi. 200 The inmate ‘cube’ facing hers belonged to a young Brazilian woman named Player. 2005 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 23 Mar. 12 She spends her days crunching numbers in a cube. Compounds cube farm n. an office divided into cubicles. ΚΠ 1997 Los Angeles Times 2 June e3/2 Do you head for the cube farm every weekday morning anxious about being Dilberted? 2006 Entrepreneur (Nexis) 1 Jan. 19 Employees gaze longingly at each other from across crowded cube farms. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cubev. Brit. /kjuːb/, U.S. /kjub/ Etymology: corresponds to French cuber (1554 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter) and probably modern Latin cubāre , < Latin cubus cube n.¹ 1. Arithmetic and Algebra. To raise (a quantity) to the third power; to find the cube of. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > perform arithmetic or algebraic operations [verb (transitive)] > multiply > by itself or raise to a particular power quaderc1450 to multiply quadrantlya1552 square?a1560 cube1588 quadrate1613 square-square1670 involve1673 to raise to a power1675 cubify1676 figuratea1690 (to multiply) figuratelya1690 biquadrate1694 1588 C. Lucar tr. N. Tartaglia 3 Bks. Shooting 62 I did cube those foure ynches and the Cube thereof was 64. 1765–93 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (ed. 12) i. 275 Superficial measures are derived by squaring those of length; and measures of capacity by cubing them. 1827 O. Gregory Hutton's Course Math. (ed. 9) I. 8 8³, denotes that the number 8 is to be cubed. 2. Mensuration. To measure or compute the cubic content of. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > ascertain the bulk of [verb (transitive)] > measure or compute the cubic content of cube1668 1668 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 3 686 He Cubeth or measureth either of the Segments of a Parabolical Conoid cut..parallel to the Axis. 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Dec. 1/2 I have counted the inmates, cubed the rooms. 3. To pave with cubes or cubical blocks. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > paving and road-building > pave or build roads [verb (transitive)] > pave > pave with specific material causeya1552 flag1615 causeway1744 metal1806 blind1812 macadamize1823 slab1832 flint1834 pebble1835 asphalt1872 concrete1875 cube1887 cobble1888 block1891 wood-block1908 tarmacadam1910 tarviate1926 tarmac1966 1887 Daily News 22 Oct. 2/4 They declined to cube the roadway beyond the statutory 18 inches outside their tram-lines. 4. To cut into small cubes. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [verb (transitive)] > cut into cubes cube1947 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > division by cutting > divide by cutting [verb (transitive)] > cut into pieces > other ring1839 cube1947 1947 Home Institute Cook Book (N.Y.) 23 Cube, to cut into small cubes or solids of six equal square sides. 1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 354/1 Slice or cube and serve hot with melted butter. 1960 A. Wesker Kitchen 17 Cube stale bread for onion soup. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1556n.²1924n.³1937v.1588
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