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cube

UK/kjuːb/ US/kjub/ fairly common informal

noun

1.
2.

a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces

3.
4.

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

5.

a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube

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verb

1.

raise to the third power

2.

cut into cubes

  • “cube the cheese”
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Origin

Clipped form of cubicle (with intentional reference to their common shape per cube, etymology 1), which from Latin cubiculum (“a small bedchamber or lounge”), from cubare (“to lie down”).

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