Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cube

5 senses of cube

Sense 1
cube, regular hexahedron -- (a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces)
       => regular polyhedron, regular convex solid, regular convex polyhedron, Platonic body, Platonic solid, ideal solid -- (any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent)

Sense 2
block, cube -- (a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides)
       => solid -- (a three-dimensional shape)

Sense 3
cube, third power -- (the product of three equal terms)
       => number -- (a concept of quantity involving zero and units; "every number has a unique position in the sequence")

Sense 4
cube -- (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)
       => subshrub, suffrutex -- (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Sense 5
cube, square block -- (a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube)
       => block -- (a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides); "the pyramids were built with large stone blocks")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb cube

2 senses of cube

Sense 1
cube -- (raise to the third power)
       => multiply -- (combine by multiplication; "multiply 10 by 15")

Sense 2
cube, dice -- (cut into cubes; "cube the cheese")
       => cut -- (separate with or as if with an instrument; "Cut the rope")