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Verb
/kyo͞ob/,
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cubes, plural;
  1. Raise (a number or value) to its cube

  2. Cut (food) into small cubes
    • - I bought sirloin from the butcher and cubed it myself
  3. Tenderize (meat) by scoring a pattern of small squares into its surface
    • - cubed steaks
Noun
  1. A symmetrical three-dimensional shape, either solid or hollow, contained by six equal squares

  2. A block of something with six sides
    • - a sugar cube
  3. 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
  1. raise to the third power
  2. a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces
  3. block: a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides
  4. cut into cubes; "cube the cheese"
  5. the product of three equal terms
  6. 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
  7. In geometry, a cubeEnglish cube from Old French < Latin cubus < Greek kubos meaning "a cube, a die, vertebra". In turn from PIE *keu(b)-, "to bend, turn". is a three-dimensional solid object bounded by six square faces, facets or sides, with three meeting at each . ...
  8. Beryllium copper, also known as copper beryllium, BeCu or beryllium bronze, is a metal alloy of copper and 0.5 to 3% beryllium, and sometimes with other alloying elements. Beryllium Copper combines high strength with non-magnetic and non-sparking qualities. ...
  9. Cubé or (Common) Lancepod (Lonchocarpus utilis) is part of the Fabaceae (or Leguminosae) family. It is native to the tropical forests of Peru, as well as of Brazil and Guyana, growing from 100–1,800 meters above sea level.
  10. In arithmetic and algebra, the cube of a number n is its third power -- the result of the number multiplying by itself three times: This is also the volume formula for a geometric cube with sides of length n, giving rise to the name. ...
  11. In the Star Trek fictional universe, Borg starships are huge interstellar spacecraft used by the Borg race to assimilate other species. All of their ships are simple geometric solids with greebled exteriors and very generalized and decentralized designs.
  12. CUBE is a german bicycle manufacturer, producing any types of bikes, but is best-known for their mountain bikes.
  13. (cubes) Cubic inches of displacement, as in, "That car has 350 cubes."
  14. (CUBES) Columbia University-UNESCO Joint Programme on Biodiversity and Society
  15. (Cubes) An excellent interactive applet that illustrates the volume of a rectangular prism (box). Units of single cubes, rows of cubes, or layers of cubes can be used to fill a prism.
  16. (Cubes) Marijuana tablets; crack cocaine
  17. (Cubes) Sugar. Yes, the stuff you put in your tea.
  18. (Cubes) long or coarsely cut hay compressed into high density cubes to facilitate transportation, storage and feeding.
  19. (Cubes) quadrangular-square rubber used as powerbands.
  20. A slang expression sometimes used to mean a cubic foot of ion exchanger or filter media.
  21. Cut into squares, size of which is determined by the recipe, generally between 1/2 to 2-inches.
  22. Interior volume of a truck body, semitrailer or trailer, measured in cubic feet.
  23. The total capacity of a warehouse, truck, back room, re-pack room, pal-let, shelf, or product, including vertical and horizontal dimensions.
  24. A case (q.v.) of beer cans with the cans arranged in two "layers". Most breweries use the word cube to refer to a 24-pack with two layers of 12 cans each, but Miller Brewing cubes are 30-packs with two layers of 15 cans each. (Neither "cube" is perfectly cubical. ...
  25. Area occupied by an exhibit within a trailer, determined by multiplying the exhibit's length times width times height.