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cub

noun

1 cub

An awkward and inexperienced youth.

synonyms: greenhorn, rookie.

Roget 851: vulgarity, vulgarism; barbarism, Vandalism, Gothicism; mauvis gout [Fr.], bad taste; gaucherie, awkwardness, want of tact; ill-breeding etc. (discourtesy) 895.    ... show more

Roget 876: commonalty, democracy; obscurity; low condition, low life, low society, low company; bourgeoisie; mass of the people, mass of society; Brown Jones and Robinson; lower classes, humbler classes, ... show more

Dutch: nieuweling, nieuwkomer, beginneling, schacht, broekje, groene, groentje, melkmuil, vlasbaard
Polish: gołowąs

2 cub

A male child (a familiar term of address to a boy).

synonyms: lad, laddie, sonny, sonny boy.

Roget 129: infant, babe, baby, babe in arms; nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling; papoose, bambino; kid; vagitus.    child, bairn [Scot.], ... show more

Dutch: zoontje, jochie

3 cub

The young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion.

synonym: young carnivore.

Dutch: welp

verb

1 cub

Give birth to cubs.


Moby thesaurus: birdling, boy, bub, bubba, buck, bud, buddy, calf, catling, chick, chickling, chicky, colt, dogie, duckling, fawn, fellow, fledgling, foal, fryer ... show more.

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cube

noun

1 cube

A hexahedron with six equal squares as faces.

synonym: regular hexahedron.

Roget 244: angularity, angularness; aduncity; angle, cusp, bend; fold etc. 258; notch etc. 257; fork, bifurcation.    ... show more

Dutch: derde macht, regelmatig zesvlak, hexaëder, kubus
Polish: heksaedr, sześcian foremny, sześcian

2 cube

A three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides.

synonym: block.

Polish: blok

3 cube

The product of three equal terms.

synonym: third power.

Roget 92: Triality, trinity; triunity.    three, triad, triplet, trey, trio, ternion, leash; shamrock, tierce, spike-team [U.S.], trefoil; ... show more

Dutch: derdemacht
Polish: sześcian

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.

5 cube

A block in the (approximate) shape of a cube.

synonym: square block.

Dutch: tablet

verb

1 cube

Raise to the third power.

Roget 93: treble, triple; triplicate, cube.   

Dutch: kuberen

2 cube

Cut into cubes:
— Cube the cheese.

synonym: dice.


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cubed

Moby thesaurus: cube-shaped, cubic, cubiform, cuboid, diced, foursquare, oblong, orthogonal, quadrangular, quadrate, quadriform, quadrilateral, rectangular, rhombic, rhomboid, square, tetragonal, tetrahedral, trapezohedral, trapezoid.

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