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Noun cube has 5 senses
  1. block, cube - a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides
    --1 is a kind of solid
    --1 has particulars: goldbrick
    Derived form: verb cube2
  2. cube, regular hexahedron - a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces
    --2 is a kind of regular polyhedron, regular convex solid, regular convex polyhedron, Platonic body, Platonic solid, ideal solid
    --2 has particulars: quadrate
    Derived form: verb cube2
  3. cube, third power - the product of three equal terms
    --3 is a kind of number
    Derived form: verb cube1
  4. cube - 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
    --4 is a kind of     subshrub, suffrutex
    --4 is a member of Lonchocarpus, genus Lonchocarpus
  5. cube, square block - a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube
    --5 is a kind of block
    --5 has particulars: dice, die; ice cube
,Verb cube has 2 senses
  1. cube - raise to the third power
    --1 is one way to     multiply
    Derived form: noun cube3
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  2. cube, dice - cut into cubes; "cube the cheese"
    --2 is one way to cut
    Derived forms: noun cube2, noun cube1
    Sample sentence:
    The chefs cube the vegetables
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