Definitions for cubes

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cubes cube

Spelling: [kyoob]

IPA: /kyub/

Cubes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in cubes (bcesu).

Definitions for cubes

noun

1. a solid bounded by six equal squares, the angle between any two adjacent faces being a right angle.
2. an object, either solid or hollow, having this form or a form approximating it:
3. sugar cube.
4. flashcube.
5. Mathematics. the third power of a quantity, expressed as a 3 = a·a·a.
6. Informal. cubic inch, especially as a measure of the displacement of an automotive engine:
7. Slang. one of a pair of dice; die.
8. Slang. a person who is unaware of or unfamiliar with current ideas, opinions, trends, etc.; square.
9. any of several tropical plants of the legume family that are used in making fish poisons and insecticides.

verb (used with object)

1. to make into a cube or cubes.
2. to cut into cubes.
3. Mathematics. to raise to the third power.
4. to measure the cubic contents of.
5. to tenderize (a thin cut or slice of meat) by scoring the fibers in a pattern of squares.

Origin of cubes

1350-1400; Middle English cubus Latin Greek kýbos cube, die

Examples for cubes

Keep your eyes on me, for to look at the cube spells danger!

The second cube came back unchanged, except that it was newer, shinier.

I flicked the switch and opened the door, expecting to find the cube vanished.

[I]n Westeros, the Lannisters have the cube of gold and the Tyrells with the rich farmland of the Reach have the real resources.

The cube was placed outside for passersby to see as part of the Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy.

Whisk the cold butter cubes into the sauce, a cube at a time, until all the butter is incorporated.

And another asked for cube, fourth and fifth roots of a six-digit number.

Professor Johnson placed the cube gently on the machine's platform.

Geometrically, it is a cube being forced into a rhomboid by the fault.

The square of any such number represents a surface, the cube a solid.