| 单词 | cube |
| 释义 | cube (once / 1899 pages) 1nv 2nv 3n In math, a cube is a number multiplied by itself three times. The cube of 2 is 8 (2 x 2 x 2). It is also a three-dimensional shape where each of the six sides is a square or something shaped like a cube, such as an ice cube or meat cut into cubes). The noun cube goes back to the Greek word kybos, which was a six-sided die used in games. As a verb, cube means to cut into cube shapes. You can buy cookie dough that is ready for baking and formed into cubes. Place each cube on the cookie sheet, and the dough becomes a dozen round cookies — or fewer if you pop a cookie dough cube into your mouth before baking! WORD FAMILYcube: cubed, cubelike, cubes, cubical, cubing, cuboidal USAGE EXAMPLESMore notably, 2017 is the smallest whole number whose cube root begins with ten distinct digits: The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) First, the pork shoulder was chopped into cubes and simmered with spices for hours. Washington Post(Dec 19, 2016) Their lab is littered with Cozmos and the cubes the robot plays with. Washington Times(Dec 11, 2016) 1 1n a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces Syn|Hypo|Hyper regular hexahedron tesseract the four-dimensional analogue of a cube quadratea cubelike object Platonic body, Platonic solid, ideal solid, regular convex polyhedron, regular convex solid, regular polyhedron any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent 2n a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides Syn|Hypo|Hyper block goldbrick a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not solid a three-dimensional shape 3n a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube Syn|Hypo|Hyper square block dice, die a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers ice cubea small cube of artificial ice; used for cooling drinks five, five-spota playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips four, four-spota playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips one-spota domino or die whose upward face shows one pip six, six-spota playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows six pips block a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides) 4v cut into cubes 2cube the cheese Syn|Hyper dice cut separate with or as if with an instrument 1n the product of three equal terms Syn|Hyper third power number a concept of quantity involving zero and units 2v raise to the third power 3Hyper multiply combine by multiplication n 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 Hyper subshrub, suffrutex low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base |
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