cubenoun [ C ]
uk/kjuːb/us/kjuːb/cube noun [ C ] (SHAPE)
a solid object with six square sides of equal size:
Cut the cheese into small cubes.
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Geometrical shapes
- -cornered
- -dimensional
- circular
- cuboid
- cylinder
- cylindrical
- dome
- hexagon
- incongruent
- isometric
- lozenge
- octagon
- oval
- ovoid
- parallelogram
- polygon
- quadrilateral
- rhombus
- spherical
- triangle
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cube noun [ C ] (NUMBER)
specialized mathematics the number made by multiplying a number twice by itself
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Addition, subtraction, multiplication & division
- add
- add (sth) up
- addition sign
- associative property
- borrow
- carry sth forward/over
- coefficient
- deduct
- distributive
- divide
- divisible
- divisor
- long division
- minus
- multiplication table
- multiply
- plus
- power
- table
- times
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cubeverb [ T ]
uk/kjuːb/us/kjuːb/cube verb [ T ] (SHAPE)
to cut food into cubes
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Preparing food
- butter
- can't boil an egg idiom
- caramelize
- carve
- clarified
- dice
- fold
- knead
- leaven
- liquidize
- malt
- marinade
- prep
- salt
- slow food
- spice
- stuffed
- sweeten
- thicken
- thin
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cube verb [ T ] (NUMBER)
specialized mathematics If you cube a number, you multiply it twice by itself:
2 cubed (= 2 x 2 x 2) equals 8, and is written 23.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Addition, subtraction, multiplication & division
- add
- add (sth) up
- addition sign
- associative property
- borrow
- carry sth forward/over
- coefficient
- deduct
- distributive
- divide
- divisible
- divisor
- long division
- minus
- multiplication table
- multiply
- plus
- power
- table
- times
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