Definition of cube in English:

cube

noun kjuːbkjub

1A symmetrical three-dimensional shape, either solid or hollow, contained by six equal squares.
what is the surface area of a 2 cm cube?
it was a rough shape, neither a cube nor a sphere
Example sentencesExamples
- These are often known as the Platonic solids: the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron.
- Nearly all of the characters in the show have heads that are some variation on the shape of a cube.
- Diamond is best known in octahedral crystals that can reach an amazing 6 cm; it also exhibits the cube, dodecahedron, and trisoctahedron.
- The shape is a cube, made of four upright and four horizontal beams.
- His specific sculptural language can be reduced to four basic elements or motifs that appear as pure geometrical forms - the ovoid, the cube, the cylinder and the truncated pyramid.
- The 3D Objects tool lets you create modelled spheres, cubes, rectangles cones, pyramids, toroids and more effortlessly.
- The seats are small, solid cubes, and the shelter is a covered, open-sided cube.
- We all think of a line segment as being one-dimensional, a square two-dimensional and a cube three-dimensional, but what does this really mean?
- He cut his circumscribed cube into 8 small equal cubes.
- Illusions include a woman's profile that could also be a candlestick, and an empty box that viewed another way looks like a solid cube.
- As usual I'd picked out one of the veggie meals, a bowl of salad, a cube-shaped green jello, and a crimson glossy apple.
- The fluorite tends to occur only as cubes modified by the dodecahedron, with simple cubes or octahedra uncommon or absent.
- To get my ice I have to make a cube shape with my hands and point to the tumbler.
- Each set of atomic coordinates for a model was placed within a three-dimensional grid of cubes.
- Fair dice don't have to be in the shape of regular polyhedra, such as cubes, icosahedra, and so on.
- This picture of a cube is made up entirely of black lines in two-dimensional space, but what you perceive is a three-dimensional cube.
- The piece consists of several hollow frame cubes as well as many solid cubes glued to the stairs.
- For a solid cube, multiply length by width by height to obtain the volume.
- Plato believed that atoms have the shapes of regular polyhedra: cubes, tetrahedrons, octahedrons, and so on.
- Closed, the cabinet appears as a minimalist cube - a solid and restrained form that belies its complex and interactive quality.
Synonyms
hexahedron, cuboid, parallelepiped
block, brick, lump, chunk
1. 1.1 A block of something with six sides.
  a sugar cube
  Example sentencesExamples
  When the cubes are solid, transfer them to a plastic freezer bag and presto, you have recipe-sized cilantro packages.
  If you cannot obtain these you can still make my first dish using cubes of salmon or firm white fish instead.
  She then took the overflow lard that she had displaced and added lye to create soap, which she formed into a large cube whose shape was further transformed when she bathed with it.
  When the concrete dust cleared, we saw a large, jagged hole in the side of the stone cube.
  The liquidised plastic binds with sand and forms a solid cube.
  How big is a plutonium cube of 6 microns on a side?
  It was most memorable for the generous amount of clams, shrimp, and cubes of fish - in fact, I kept discovering more and more seafood under the noodles.
  The golden beaches of Longniddry are fringed by tank-busting blocks, 3m cubes of concrete designed to help foil an envisaged invasion.
  The other sides of the plates appear as normal single fluorite cubes, even if slightly rough-surfaced, a feature not uncommon in fluorite crystals from many localities.
  Place bread cubes and raisins in a 1 1/2-quart baking dish.
  This is not the place to wimp out and order sweet and sour monkfish, consisting of a bunch of dry fish cubes with canned pineapple and cloying vinegary sauce.
  Thread two metal skewers with 100g steak, cut into cubes, along with chunks of yellow pepper, onion, cherry tomatoes and mushrooms.
  Meanwhile, you've been putting together six garlic cloves and parsley and a couple of bouillon-concentrate cubes, a lot of fish and saffron.
  Just to get them on the feed and advertise your presence, it's also worth chopping up a few small cubes of mackerel or other fish bait now and then and letting these free fall to the seabed.
  Rinse the fish cubes again and add them to the cooking curry.
  Carefully hollow out the tofu cube about half an inch deep and place in a small soup bowl.
  The pasta was bulked out with more cubes of dry white fish, species unclear.
  The winning submission involves the arrangement of three cement cubes, each of which is deeply imprinted on one side with a felled tree that has resulted from the development of UniverCity.
  Over the years the lustre of the mosaics has faded and dust gathered in the nooks and crannies of the brick and stone cubes which make up the designs.
  The seafood linguine is laden with clams, shrimp and cubes of fish, while the risotto con funghi, infused with porcini mushrooms, walks the line between soupy and solid admirably.
2. 1.2 A partitioned-off area in an office containing a desk; a cubicle.
  Example sentencesExamples
  A small jiggle would be identified by the coins in his pocket jangling, while a titanic jiggle would set the cube wall, the floor and my desk vibrating wildly.
  When I got to work yesterday, my cube door was blocked off and the cube was brimming with balloons.
  Five years ago, Philips Consumer Electronics ' engineering staff in Knoxville, Tennessee, used to have palatial cubes measuring about 10 feet by 12 feet.
  The workplace is not just about cubes or offices.
  David Howell gave his sticker a place of honor in his cube.
  The rooms they are in are just cubes, with one door on each wall.
  One morning I was in early, and over the cube wall pops the head of one of these lawyers.
2Mathematics
The product of a number multiplied by its square, represented by a superscript figure 3.
a body increasing in weight by the cube of its length
Example sentencesExamples
- The ratio of the squares of the periods of two planets is directly proportional to the ratio of the cubes of the radii of their orbits.
- Ladies and gents, it's all about the primes, the squares, the occasional cube, a few multiplication tables of primes.
- They drew up multiplication tables and tables of reciprocals, squares, cubes and exponentials, and used them to calculate compound interest and mortgage repayments.
- According to the precise rate, the volume of the sphere is the cube of the diameter multiplied by 11 and divided by 21.
- In 1912, Aubrey J. Kempner completed a 1909 effort by A. Wieferich to establish once and for all that every integer can be expressed as a sum of nine cubes.

verb kjuːbkjub

[with object]

1Mathematics
Raise (a number or value) to its cube.
cube the deviations from the mean
1200 metres cubed
Example sentencesExamples
- His experiments with rockets led him to conclude that when approaching supersonic speeds aerodynamic forces vary as the velocity cubed rather then squared, which was the operative rule at slower speeds.
- He has seen the link between squaring the circle and cubing the sphere, and has been able to translate progress on the first of these two problems into progress on the second.
- This must be one of the most frenzied 18 metres cubed of space to be found anywhere.
- But in any standard treatment, squaring or cubing an infinite number gives the same infinite number.
- Canadian lotteries also require a skill testing question to claim your prize by adding all numbers chosen for the draw, cubing the total and finding the nearest prime number.
2Cut (food) into small cubes.
I bought sirloin from the butcher and cubed it myself
Example sentencesExamples
- I will be peeling and cubing potatoes for a long time tonight, arranging them in large baking pan while I think about breast cancer.
- This simple Thai sauce recipe can be served over vegetables, cubed pan fried tofu, or over rice or noodles.
- Add cubed potatoes, cook for a while, add chick peas, and garden peas, and some torn basil leaves.
- Place peeled and cubed sweet potatoes in a large saucepan and add enough water to cover.
- The butcher had conveniently cubed all of the meat suitable for sausages, and the addition of some back fat, salt, pepper and breadcrumbs was all that was needed.
- If your bread isn't stale, pre-heat the oven to 215 degrees, cube the bread, and dry out the cubes in the oven for 10 minutes.
- The cheese was cubed, the wine was poured, and visitors shuffled about to view a series of photographs clustered on the walls.
- Some shred the beetroot, some julienne it, and some cube it, while modernists whiz it in a food processor.
- Serve with basmati rice and raita (finely cubed cucumber, tomato and onion with a squeeze of lime juice).
- Or add chopped or cubed butternut, lightly sautéed so that it retains bite.
- They can also be cubed and added to soups and stews.
- The meat was cubed, heavily salted, and cured for twelve hours.
- Hungarian cattlemen, shepherds, and pigherders have cooked cubed meat with onion and spices for at least 300 to 500 years.
- Mix gravy, cubed turkey and leftover vegetables into a casserole dish.
- The flesh was cubed and mixed with grains, herbs and lemon, tabbouleh style.
- It was laden with two bowls of steaming chilli, a monstrous plate of salad, and several side dishes of onion, cheese, sour cream, and cubed bread.
- The beef was cubed and marinated for at least four hours in olive oil, grated fresh horseradish, grated lemon rind and a little finely chopped chilli.
- This process begins as the blocks of cheese are cubed then shredded and sprinkled with a flour-like anti-caking agent to prevent them from sticking together.
- While they cook, peel and cube the potatoes.
- Cut any rind from the Gorgonzola and cube the cheese.
Synonyms
chop, cut up, slice, dice, cube, mince

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Old French, or via Latin from Greek kubos.

Rhymes

boob, droob, j'adoube, jube, lube, rube, tube

Definition of cube in US English:

cube

nounkyo͞obkjub

1A symmetrical three-dimensional shape, either solid or hollow, contained by six equal squares.
Example sentencesExamples
- The 3D Objects tool lets you create modelled spheres, cubes, rectangles cones, pyramids, toroids and more effortlessly.
- As usual I'd picked out one of the veggie meals, a bowl of salad, a cube-shaped green jello, and a crimson glossy apple.
- To get my ice I have to make a cube shape with my hands and point to the tumbler.
- Diamond is best known in octahedral crystals that can reach an amazing 6 cm; it also exhibits the cube, dodecahedron, and trisoctahedron.
- This picture of a cube is made up entirely of black lines in two-dimensional space, but what you perceive is a three-dimensional cube.
- Fair dice don't have to be in the shape of regular polyhedra, such as cubes, icosahedra, and so on.
- Closed, the cabinet appears as a minimalist cube - a solid and restrained form that belies its complex and interactive quality.
- The shape is a cube, made of four upright and four horizontal beams.
- His specific sculptural language can be reduced to four basic elements or motifs that appear as pure geometrical forms - the ovoid, the cube, the cylinder and the truncated pyramid.
- The seats are small, solid cubes, and the shelter is a covered, open-sided cube.
- He cut his circumscribed cube into 8 small equal cubes.
- The piece consists of several hollow frame cubes as well as many solid cubes glued to the stairs.
- Illusions include a woman's profile that could also be a candlestick, and an empty box that viewed another way looks like a solid cube.
- These are often known as the Platonic solids: the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron.
- Each set of atomic coordinates for a model was placed within a three-dimensional grid of cubes.
- Plato believed that atoms have the shapes of regular polyhedra: cubes, tetrahedrons, octahedrons, and so on.
- The fluorite tends to occur only as cubes modified by the dodecahedron, with simple cubes or octahedra uncommon or absent.
- Nearly all of the characters in the show have heads that are some variation on the shape of a cube.
- We all think of a line segment as being one-dimensional, a square two-dimensional and a cube three-dimensional, but what does this really mean?
- For a solid cube, multiply length by width by height to obtain the volume.
Synonyms
hexahedron, cuboid, parallelepiped
1. 1.1
  short for cubicle
  Example sentencesExamples
  Five years ago, Philips Consumer Electronics ' engineering staff in Knoxville, Tennessee, used to have palatial cubes measuring about 10 feet by 12 feet.
  The workplace is not just about cubes or offices.
  The rooms they are in are just cubes, with one door on each wall.
  When I got to work yesterday, my cube door was blocked off and the cube was brimming with balloons.
  One morning I was in early, and over the cube wall pops the head of one of these lawyers.
  David Howell gave his sticker a place of honor in his cube.
  A small jiggle would be identified by the coins in his pocket jangling, while a titanic jiggle would set the cube wall, the floor and my desk vibrating wildly.
2. 1.2 A block of something with six sides.
  a sugar cube
  Example sentencesExamples
  This is not the place to wimp out and order sweet and sour monkfish, consisting of a bunch of dry fish cubes with canned pineapple and cloying vinegary sauce.
  Rinse the fish cubes again and add them to the cooking curry.
  She then took the overflow lard that she had displaced and added lye to create soap, which she formed into a large cube whose shape was further transformed when she bathed with it.
  The pasta was bulked out with more cubes of dry white fish, species unclear.
  It was most memorable for the generous amount of clams, shrimp, and cubes of fish - in fact, I kept discovering more and more seafood under the noodles.
  If you cannot obtain these you can still make my first dish using cubes of salmon or firm white fish instead.
  Meanwhile, you've been putting together six garlic cloves and parsley and a couple of bouillon-concentrate cubes, a lot of fish and saffron.
  Place bread cubes and raisins in a 1 1/2-quart baking dish.
  How big is a plutonium cube of 6 microns on a side?
  Carefully hollow out the tofu cube about half an inch deep and place in a small soup bowl.
  Just to get them on the feed and advertise your presence, it's also worth chopping up a few small cubes of mackerel or other fish bait now and then and letting these free fall to the seabed.
  The golden beaches of Longniddry are fringed by tank-busting blocks, 3m cubes of concrete designed to help foil an envisaged invasion.
  When the concrete dust cleared, we saw a large, jagged hole in the side of the stone cube.
  The other sides of the plates appear as normal single fluorite cubes, even if slightly rough-surfaced, a feature not uncommon in fluorite crystals from many localities.
  The winning submission involves the arrangement of three cement cubes, each of which is deeply imprinted on one side with a felled tree that has resulted from the development of UniverCity.
  The seafood linguine is laden with clams, shrimp and cubes of fish, while the risotto con funghi, infused with porcini mushrooms, walks the line between soupy and solid admirably.
  Over the years the lustre of the mosaics has faded and dust gathered in the nooks and crannies of the brick and stone cubes which make up the designs.
  Thread two metal skewers with 100g steak, cut into cubes, along with chunks of yellow pepper, onion, cherry tomatoes and mushrooms.
  When the cubes are solid, transfer them to a plastic freezer bag and presto, you have recipe-sized cilantro packages.
  The liquidised plastic binds with sand and forms a solid cube.
3. 1.3Mathematics The product of a number multiplied by its square, represented by a superscript figure 3.
  a body increasing in weight by the cube of its length
  Example sentencesExamples
  According to the precise rate, the volume of the sphere is the cube of the diameter multiplied by 11 and divided by 21.
  Ladies and gents, it's all about the primes, the squares, the occasional cube, a few multiplication tables of primes.
  The ratio of the squares of the periods of two planets is directly proportional to the ratio of the cubes of the radii of their orbits.
  They drew up multiplication tables and tables of reciprocals, squares, cubes and exponentials, and used them to calculate compound interest and mortgage repayments.
  In 1912, Aubrey J. Kempner completed a 1909 effort by A. Wieferich to establish once and for all that every integer can be expressed as a sum of nine cubes.

verbkyo͞obkjub

[with object]

1Mathematics
Raise (a number or value) to its cube.
Example sentencesExamples
- This must be one of the most frenzied 18 metres cubed of space to be found anywhere.
- His experiments with rockets led him to conclude that when approaching supersonic speeds aerodynamic forces vary as the velocity cubed rather then squared, which was the operative rule at slower speeds.
- But in any standard treatment, squaring or cubing an infinite number gives the same infinite number.
- Canadian lotteries also require a skill testing question to claim your prize by adding all numbers chosen for the draw, cubing the total and finding the nearest prime number.
- He has seen the link between squaring the circle and cubing the sphere, and has been able to translate progress on the first of these two problems into progress on the second.
2Cut (food) into small cubes.
I bought sirloin from the butcher and cubed it myself
Example sentencesExamples
- While they cook, peel and cube the potatoes.
- If your bread isn't stale, pre-heat the oven to 215 degrees, cube the bread, and dry out the cubes in the oven for 10 minutes.
- Mix gravy, cubed turkey and leftover vegetables into a casserole dish.
- It was laden with two bowls of steaming chilli, a monstrous plate of salad, and several side dishes of onion, cheese, sour cream, and cubed bread.
- This process begins as the blocks of cheese are cubed then shredded and sprinkled with a flour-like anti-caking agent to prevent them from sticking together.
- They can also be cubed and added to soups and stews.
- Serve with basmati rice and raita (finely cubed cucumber, tomato and onion with a squeeze of lime juice).
- This simple Thai sauce recipe can be served over vegetables, cubed pan fried tofu, or over rice or noodles.
- Cut any rind from the Gorgonzola and cube the cheese.
- Add cubed potatoes, cook for a while, add chick peas, and garden peas, and some torn basil leaves.
- The beef was cubed and marinated for at least four hours in olive oil, grated fresh horseradish, grated lemon rind and a little finely chopped chilli.
- The meat was cubed, heavily salted, and cured for twelve hours.
- Hungarian cattlemen, shepherds, and pigherders have cooked cubed meat with onion and spices for at least 300 to 500 years.
- Place peeled and cubed sweet potatoes in a large saucepan and add enough water to cover.
- The butcher had conveniently cubed all of the meat suitable for sausages, and the addition of some back fat, salt, pepper and breadcrumbs was all that was needed.
- Or add chopped or cubed butternut, lightly sautéed so that it retains bite.
- The cheese was cubed, the wine was poured, and visitors shuffled about to view a series of photographs clustered on the walls.
- The flesh was cubed and mixed with grains, herbs and lemon, tabbouleh style.
- Some shred the beetroot, some julienne it, and some cube it, while modernists whiz it in a food processor.
- I will be peeling and cubing potatoes for a long time tonight, arranging them in large baking pan while I think about breast cancer.
Synonyms
chop, cut up, slice, dice, cube, mince

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Old French, or via Latin from Greek kubos.

单词	cube
释义	Definition of cube in English: cube noun kjuːbkjub 1A symmetrical three-dimensional shape, either solid or hollow, contained by six equal squares. what is the surface area of a 2 cm cube? it was a rough shape, neither a cube nor a sphere Example sentencesExamples These are often known as the Platonic solids: the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron. Nearly all of the characters in the show have heads that are some variation on the shape of a cube. Diamond is best known in octahedral crystals that can reach an amazing 6 cm; it also exhibits the cube, dodecahedron, and trisoctahedron. The shape is a cube, made of four upright and four horizontal beams. His specific sculptural language can be reduced to four basic elements or motifs that appear as pure geometrical forms - the ovoid, the cube, the cylinder and the truncated pyramid. The 3D Objects tool lets you create modelled spheres, cubes, rectangles cones, pyramids, toroids and more effortlessly. The seats are small, solid cubes, and the shelter is a covered, open-sided cube. We all think of a line segment as being one-dimensional, a square two-dimensional and a cube three-dimensional, but what does this really mean? He cut his circumscribed cube into 8 small equal cubes. Illusions include a woman's profile that could also be a candlestick, and an empty box that viewed another way looks like a solid cube. As usual I'd picked out one of the veggie meals, a bowl of salad, a cube-shaped green jello, and a crimson glossy apple. The fluorite tends to occur only as cubes modified by the dodecahedron, with simple cubes or octahedra uncommon or absent. To get my ice I have to make a cube shape with my hands and point to the tumbler. Each set of atomic coordinates for a model was placed within a three-dimensional grid of cubes. Fair dice don't have to be in the shape of regular polyhedra, such as cubes, icosahedra, and so on. This picture of a cube is made up entirely of black lines in two-dimensional space, but what you perceive is a three-dimensional cube. The piece consists of several hollow frame cubes as well as many solid cubes glued to the stairs. For a solid cube, multiply length by width by height to obtain the volume. Plato believed that atoms have the shapes of regular polyhedra: cubes, tetrahedrons, octahedrons, and so on. Closed, the cabinet appears as a minimalist cube - a solid and restrained form that belies its complex and interactive quality. Synonyms hexahedron, cuboid, parallelepiped block, brick, lump, chunk 1.1 A block of something with six sides. a sugar cube Example sentencesExamples When the cubes are solid, transfer them to a plastic freezer bag and presto, you have recipe-sized cilantro packages. If you cannot obtain these you can still make my first dish using cubes of salmon or firm white fish instead. She then took the overflow lard that she had displaced and added lye to create soap, which she formed into a large cube whose shape was further transformed when she bathed with it. When the concrete dust cleared, we saw a large, jagged hole in the side of the stone cube. The liquidised plastic binds with sand and forms a solid cube. How big is a plutonium cube of 6 microns on a side? It was most memorable for the generous amount of clams, shrimp, and cubes of fish - in fact, I kept discovering more and more seafood under the noodles. The golden beaches of Longniddry are fringed by tank-busting blocks, 3m cubes of concrete designed to help foil an envisaged invasion. The other sides of the plates appear as normal single fluorite cubes, even if slightly rough-surfaced, a feature not uncommon in fluorite crystals from many localities. Place bread cubes and raisins in a 1 1/2-quart baking dish. This is not the place to wimp out and order sweet and sour monkfish, consisting of a bunch of dry fish cubes with canned pineapple and cloying vinegary sauce. Thread two metal skewers with 100g steak, cut into cubes, along with chunks of yellow pepper, onion, cherry tomatoes and mushrooms. Meanwhile, you've been putting together six garlic cloves and parsley and a couple of bouillon-concentrate cubes, a lot of fish and saffron. Just to get them on the feed and advertise your presence, it's also worth chopping up a few small cubes of mackerel or other fish bait now and then and letting these free fall to the seabed. Rinse the fish cubes again and add them to the cooking curry. Carefully hollow out the tofu cube about half an inch deep and place in a small soup bowl. The pasta was bulked out with more cubes of dry white fish, species unclear. The winning submission involves the arrangement of three cement cubes, each of which is deeply imprinted on one side with a felled tree that has resulted from the development of UniverCity. Over the years the lustre of the mosaics has faded and dust gathered in the nooks and crannies of the brick and stone cubes which make up the designs. The seafood linguine is laden with clams, shrimp and cubes of fish, while the risotto con funghi, infused with porcini mushrooms, walks the line between soupy and solid admirably. 1.2 A partitioned-off area in an office containing a desk; a cubicle. Example sentencesExamples A small jiggle would be identified by the coins in his pocket jangling, while a titanic jiggle would set the cube wall, the floor and my desk vibrating wildly. When I got to work yesterday, my cube door was blocked off and the cube was brimming with balloons. Five years ago, Philips Consumer Electronics ' engineering staff in Knoxville, Tennessee, used to have palatial cubes measuring about 10 feet by 12 feet. The workplace is not just about cubes or offices. David Howell gave his sticker a place of honor in his cube. The rooms they are in are just cubes, with one door on each wall. One morning I was in early, and over the cube wall pops the head of one of these lawyers. 2Mathematics The product of a number multiplied by its square, represented by a superscript figure 3. a body increasing in weight by the cube of its length Example sentencesExamples The ratio of the squares of the periods of two planets is directly proportional to the ratio of the cubes of the radii of their orbits. Ladies and gents, it's all about the primes, the squares, the occasional cube, a few multiplication tables of primes. They drew up multiplication tables and tables of reciprocals, squares, cubes and exponentials, and used them to calculate compound interest and mortgage repayments. According to the precise rate, the volume of the sphere is the cube of the diameter multiplied by 11 and divided by 21. In 1912, Aubrey J. Kempner completed a 1909 effort by A. Wieferich to establish once and for all that every integer can be expressed as a sum of nine cubes. verb kjuːbkjub [with object] 1Mathematics Raise (a number or value) to its cube. cube the deviations from the mean 1200 metres cubed Example sentencesExamples His experiments with rockets led him to conclude that when approaching supersonic speeds aerodynamic forces vary as the velocity cubed rather then squared, which was the operative rule at slower speeds. He has seen the link between squaring the circle and cubing the sphere, and has been able to translate progress on the first of these two problems into progress on the second. This must be one of the most frenzied 18 metres cubed of space to be found anywhere. But in any standard treatment, squaring or cubing an infinite number gives the same infinite number. Canadian lotteries also require a skill testing question to claim your prize by adding all numbers chosen for the draw, cubing the total and finding the nearest prime number. 2Cut (food) into small cubes. I bought sirloin from the butcher and cubed it myself Example sentencesExamples I will be peeling and cubing potatoes for a long time tonight, arranging them in large baking pan while I think about breast cancer. This simple Thai sauce recipe can be served over vegetables, cubed pan fried tofu, or over rice or noodles. Add cubed potatoes, cook for a while, add chick peas, and garden peas, and some torn basil leaves. Place peeled and cubed sweet potatoes in a large saucepan and add enough water to cover. The butcher had conveniently cubed all of the meat suitable for sausages, and the addition of some back fat, salt, pepper and breadcrumbs was all that was needed. If your bread isn't stale, pre-heat the oven to 215 degrees, cube the bread, and dry out the cubes in the oven for 10 minutes. The cheese was cubed, the wine was poured, and visitors shuffled about to view a series of photographs clustered on the walls. Some shred the beetroot, some julienne it, and some cube it, while modernists whiz it in a food processor. Serve with basmati rice and raita (finely cubed cucumber, tomato and onion with a squeeze of lime juice). Or add chopped or cubed butternut, lightly sautéed so that it retains bite. They can also be cubed and added to soups and stews. The meat was cubed, heavily salted, and cured for twelve hours. Hungarian cattlemen, shepherds, and pigherders have cooked cubed meat with onion and spices for at least 300 to 500 years. Mix gravy, cubed turkey and leftover vegetables into a casserole dish. The flesh was cubed and mixed with grains, herbs and lemon, tabbouleh style. It was laden with two bowls of steaming chilli, a monstrous plate of salad, and several side dishes of onion, cheese, sour cream, and cubed bread. The beef was cubed and marinated for at least four hours in olive oil, grated fresh horseradish, grated lemon rind and a little finely chopped chilli. This process begins as the blocks of cheese are cubed then shredded and sprinkled with a flour-like anti-caking agent to prevent them from sticking together. While they cook, peel and cube the potatoes. Cut any rind from the Gorgonzola and cube the cheese. Synonyms chop, cut up, slice, dice, cube, mince Origin Mid 16th century: from Old French, or via Latin from Greek kubos. Rhymes boob, droob, j'adoube, jube, lube, rube, tube Definition of cube in US English: cube nounkyo͞obkjub 1A symmetrical three-dimensional shape, either solid or hollow, contained by six equal squares. Example sentencesExamples The 3D Objects tool lets you create modelled spheres, cubes, rectangles cones, pyramids, toroids and more effortlessly. As usual I'd picked out one of the veggie meals, a bowl of salad, a cube-shaped green jello, and a crimson glossy apple. To get my ice I have to make a cube shape with my hands and point to the tumbler. Diamond is best known in octahedral crystals that can reach an amazing 6 cm; it also exhibits the cube, dodecahedron, and trisoctahedron. This picture of a cube is made up entirely of black lines in two-dimensional space, but what you perceive is a three-dimensional cube. Fair dice don't have to be in the shape of regular polyhedra, such as cubes, icosahedra, and so on. Closed, the cabinet appears as a minimalist cube - a solid and restrained form that belies its complex and interactive quality. The shape is a cube, made of four upright and four horizontal beams. His specific sculptural language can be reduced to four basic elements or motifs that appear as pure geometrical forms - the ovoid, the cube, the cylinder and the truncated pyramid. The seats are small, solid cubes, and the shelter is a covered, open-sided cube. He cut his circumscribed cube into 8 small equal cubes. The piece consists of several hollow frame cubes as well as many solid cubes glued to the stairs. Illusions include a woman's profile that could also be a candlestick, and an empty box that viewed another way looks like a solid cube. These are often known as the Platonic solids: the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron. Each set of atomic coordinates for a model was placed within a three-dimensional grid of cubes. Plato believed that atoms have the shapes of regular polyhedra: cubes, tetrahedrons, octahedrons, and so on. The fluorite tends to occur only as cubes modified by the dodecahedron, with simple cubes or octahedra uncommon or absent. Nearly all of the characters in the show have heads that are some variation on the shape of a cube. We all think of a line segment as being one-dimensional, a square two-dimensional and a cube three-dimensional, but what does this really mean? For a solid cube, multiply length by width by height to obtain the volume. Synonyms hexahedron, cuboid, parallelepiped 1.1 short for cubicle Example sentencesExamples Five years ago, Philips Consumer Electronics ' engineering staff in Knoxville, Tennessee, used to have palatial cubes measuring about 10 feet by 12 feet. The workplace is not just about cubes or offices. The rooms they are in are just cubes, with one door on each wall. When I got to work yesterday, my cube door was blocked off and the cube was brimming with balloons. One morning I was in early, and over the cube wall pops the head of one of these lawyers. David Howell gave his sticker a place of honor in his cube. A small jiggle would be identified by the coins in his pocket jangling, while a titanic jiggle would set the cube wall, the floor and my desk vibrating wildly. 1.2 A block of something with six sides. a sugar cube Example sentencesExamples This is not the place to wimp out and order sweet and sour monkfish, consisting of a bunch of dry fish cubes with canned pineapple and cloying vinegary sauce. Rinse the fish cubes again and add them to the cooking curry. She then took the overflow lard that she had displaced and added lye to create soap, which she formed into a large cube whose shape was further transformed when she bathed with it. The pasta was bulked out with more cubes of dry white fish, species unclear. It was most memorable for the generous amount of clams, shrimp, and cubes of fish - in fact, I kept discovering more and more seafood under the noodles. If you cannot obtain these you can still make my first dish using cubes of salmon or firm white fish instead. Meanwhile, you've been putting together six garlic cloves and parsley and a couple of bouillon-concentrate cubes, a lot of fish and saffron. Place bread cubes and raisins in a 1 1/2-quart baking dish. How big is a plutonium cube of 6 microns on a side? Carefully hollow out the tofu cube about half an inch deep and place in a small soup bowl. Just to get them on the feed and advertise your presence, it's also worth chopping up a few small cubes of mackerel or other fish bait now and then and letting these free fall to the seabed. The golden beaches of Longniddry are fringed by tank-busting blocks, 3m cubes of concrete designed to help foil an envisaged invasion. When the concrete dust cleared, we saw a large, jagged hole in the side of the stone cube. The other sides of the plates appear as normal single fluorite cubes, even if slightly rough-surfaced, a feature not uncommon in fluorite crystals from many localities. The winning submission involves the arrangement of three cement cubes, each of which is deeply imprinted on one side with a felled tree that has resulted from the development of UniverCity. The seafood linguine is laden with clams, shrimp and cubes of fish, while the risotto con funghi, infused with porcini mushrooms, walks the line between soupy and solid admirably. Over the years the lustre of the mosaics has faded and dust gathered in the nooks and crannies of the brick and stone cubes which make up the designs. Thread two metal skewers with 100g steak, cut into cubes, along with chunks of yellow pepper, onion, cherry tomatoes and mushrooms. When the cubes are solid, transfer them to a plastic freezer bag and presto, you have recipe-sized cilantro packages. The liquidised plastic binds with sand and forms a solid cube. 1.3Mathematics The product of a number multiplied by its square, represented by a superscript figure 3. a body increasing in weight by the cube of its length Example sentencesExamples According to the precise rate, the volume of the sphere is the cube of the diameter multiplied by 11 and divided by 21. Ladies and gents, it's all about the primes, the squares, the occasional cube, a few multiplication tables of primes. The ratio of the squares of the periods of two planets is directly proportional to the ratio of the cubes of the radii of their orbits. They drew up multiplication tables and tables of reciprocals, squares, cubes and exponentials, and used them to calculate compound interest and mortgage repayments. In 1912, Aubrey J. Kempner completed a 1909 effort by A. Wieferich to establish once and for all that every integer can be expressed as a sum of nine cubes. verbkyo͞obkjub [with object] 1Mathematics Raise (a number or value) to its cube. Example sentencesExamples This must be one of the most frenzied 18 metres cubed of space to be found anywhere. His experiments with rockets led him to conclude that when approaching supersonic speeds aerodynamic forces vary as the velocity cubed rather then squared, which was the operative rule at slower speeds. But in any standard treatment, squaring or cubing an infinite number gives the same infinite number. Canadian lotteries also require a skill testing question to claim your prize by adding all numbers chosen for the draw, cubing the total and finding the nearest prime number. He has seen the link between squaring the circle and cubing the sphere, and has been able to translate progress on the first of these two problems into progress on the second. 2Cut (food) into small cubes. I bought sirloin from the butcher and cubed it myself Example sentencesExamples While they cook, peel and cube the potatoes. If your bread isn't stale, pre-heat the oven to 215 degrees, cube the bread, and dry out the cubes in the oven for 10 minutes. Mix gravy, cubed turkey and leftover vegetables into a casserole dish. It was laden with two bowls of steaming chilli, a monstrous plate of salad, and several side dishes of onion, cheese, sour cream, and cubed bread. This process begins as the blocks of cheese are cubed then shredded and sprinkled with a flour-like anti-caking agent to prevent them from sticking together. They can also be cubed and added to soups and stews. Serve with basmati rice and raita (finely cubed cucumber, tomato and onion with a squeeze of lime juice). This simple Thai sauce recipe can be served over vegetables, cubed pan fried tofu, or over rice or noodles. Cut any rind from the Gorgonzola and cube the cheese. Add cubed potatoes, cook for a while, add chick peas, and garden peas, and some torn basil leaves. The beef was cubed and marinated for at least four hours in olive oil, grated fresh horseradish, grated lemon rind and a little finely chopped chilli. The meat was cubed, heavily salted, and cured for twelve hours. Hungarian cattlemen, shepherds, and pigherders have cooked cubed meat with onion and spices for at least 300 to 500 years. Place peeled and cubed sweet potatoes in a large saucepan and add enough water to cover. The butcher had conveniently cubed all of the meat suitable for sausages, and the addition of some back fat, salt, pepper and breadcrumbs was all that was needed. Or add chopped or cubed butternut, lightly sautéed so that it retains bite. The cheese was cubed, the wine was poured, and visitors shuffled about to view a series of photographs clustered on the walls. The flesh was cubed and mixed with grains, herbs and lemon, tabbouleh style. Some shred the beetroot, some julienne it, and some cube it, while modernists whiz it in a food processor. I will be peeling and cubing potatoes for a long time tonight, arranging them in large baking pan while I think about breast cancer. Synonyms chop, cut up, slice, dice, cube, mince Origin Mid 16th century: from Old French, or via Latin from Greek kubos.
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