cube

1. 1.

   a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces

   Synonymsregular hexahedron

   Broaderregular polyhedron

   Narrowertesseractquadrate
2. 2.

   a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides

   Synonymsblock

   Broadersolid

   Narrowergoldbrick
3. 3.

   the product of three equal terms

   Synonymsthird power

   Broadernumber
4. 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

   Broadersubshrub

   Part ofLonchocarpus
5. 5.

   a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube

   Synonymssquare block

   Broaderblock

   Narrowerdieice cube

1. 1.

   raise to the third power

   Broadermultiply

   arithmetic

2. 2.

   cut into cubes

   “cube the cheese”

   Synonymsdice

   Broadercut

Other forms of cube

plural

cubes·

past tense

cubed·

present participle

cubing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cube

What does cube mean?

cube means "a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cube?

cube has 1 syllable: cube. In IPA it is /ˈkjub/.

What is another word for cube?

Close synonyms include regular hexahedron, block, third power, square block, dice. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cube a common word?

cube is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.