different between carve vs cube

English

Etymology

From Middle English kerven, from Old English ceorfan, from Proto-West Germanic *kerban, from Proto-Germanic *kerban?, from Proto-Indo-European *gerb?- (“to scratch”). Cognate with West Frisian kerve, Dutch kerven, Low German karven, German kerben (“to notch”); also Old Prussian g?rbin (“number”), Old Church Slavonic ?????? (žr?bii, “lot, tallymark”), Ancient Greek ??????? (gráphein, “to scratch, etch”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k??v/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??v/
  • Homophone: calve (Received Pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -??(?)v

Verb

carve (third-person singular simple present carves, present participle carving, simple past carved or (obsolete) corve, past participle carved or (archaic) carven or (obsolete) corven)

1. (archaic) To cut.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Sir Galahad

     My good blade carves the casques of men.

2. To cut meat in order to serve it.

3. To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work.
4. (snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
5. (figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.

   • […] who could easily have carved themselves their own food.
6. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

carve (plural carves)

1. (obsolete) A carucate.
   • 1862, Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland

     ... half a carve of arable land in Ballyncore, one carve of arable land in Pales, a quarter of arable land in Clonnemeagh, half a carve of arable land in Ballyfaden, half a carve of arable land in Ballymadran, ...

   • 1868, John Harland (editor), Wapentake of West Derby, in Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, (translating a Latin text c. 1320-46), page 31

     Whereof John de Ditton holds a moiety of the village for half a carve of land.

2. The act of carving

Anagrams

• Caver, caver, crave, varec

English

Etymology 1

From Old French cube, from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek ????? (kúbos).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kyo?ob, IPA^(key): /kju?b/
• (US) enPR: kyo?ob, IPA^(key): /kjub/
• Rhymes: -u?b

Noun

cube (plural cubes)

1. (geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
2. Any object more or less in the form of a cube.

3. (mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.

4. (computing) A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube
5. A Rubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube

Synonyms

• (geometry: polyhedron having of six identical square faces): regular hexahedron (rare)
• (object in the form of a cube): block, brick, die, square block
• (number raised to the third power): third power

Hypernyms

• (geometry: polyhedron having of six identical square faces): hexahedron, cuboid

Translations

Verb

cube (third-person singular simple present cubes, present participle cubing, simple past and past participle cubed)

1. (transitive, arithmetic) To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.

2. (transitive) To form into the shape of a cube.
3. (transitive) To cut into cubes.

4. (Britain) to use a Rubik's cube.

Synonyms

• (to cut into cubes): dice

Translations

Derived terms

Related terms

• cubic
• cubical
• cuboid
• cubism
• cubist

See also

• line segment
• square
• tesseract

Etymology 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”).

Noun

cube (plural cubes)

1. A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.

   My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube.

Translations

Anagrams

• Cebu

French

Etymology

From Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek ????? (kúbos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kyb/

Noun

cube m (plural cubes)

1. cube (all senses)
2. third-grader

Adjective

cube (plural cubes)

1. cubic

Verb

cube

1. first-person singular present indicative of cuber
2. third-person singular present indicative of cuber
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cuber
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cuber
5. second-person singular imperative of cuber

Further reading

• “cube” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ube

Adjective

cube f

1. feminine plural of cubo

Latin

Noun

cube

1. vocative singular of cubus

Portuguese

Verb

cube

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of cubar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of cubar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of cubar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of cubar