cube

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /kjuːb/    美 /kjub/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
    — When the math teacher is teaching the class about cubes, he asks them to imagine a cardboard box whose width, length, and height are all the same.
  2. A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
    — My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube.
  3. Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
    — A: One cube or two? B: Oh, no sugar for me, thanks.
  4. The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
    — The cube of 2 is 8.
  5. A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube.
  6. A Rubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube.
  7. Clipping of cubic inch(es). abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,informal
    — As if the 383 weren't already a roaring beast, in 1972 they bored it out some more, bringing it up to 400 cubes. This 400-cube monster could launch a land yacht like the Plymouth Fury from zero to sixty in under ten seconds.
  8. An extremely socially conventional or conservative person, moreso than even a square. dated
动词 v.
  1. To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice. transitive
    — Three cubed can be written as 3³, and equals twenty-seven.
  2. To form into the shape of a cube. transitive
  3. To cut into cubes. transitive
    — Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice.
  4. To use a Rubik's cube. intransitive
    — He likes to cube now and then.
形容词 adj.
  1. Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself twice. not-comparable,postpositional
    — Beautiful peepshows with hand-coloured engravings by Martin Englebrecht, 1684-1756, were produced in Augsburg about 1740. The box, about six inches cube, contained slots to take four cut-out scenes, the front of the box had another cut-out, and the back was painted with a landscape, making six 'curtains' in all.

词形变化

cubes plural cubes present,singular,third-person cubing participle,present cubed participle,past cubed past cubes plural

词汇关系

近义词
to cut into cubes
上位词
cuboid

词源

词源 1
From Old French cube, from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).
Displaced Old English tæfel ("cube, die, game with dice or tables").
词源 2
Clipped form of cubicle (with intentional reference to their common shape per cube, etymology 1), which from Latin cubiculum (“a small bedchamber or lounge”), from cubare (“to lie down”).
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