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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

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?a?v/
• Rhymes: -a?v

Etymology 1

From Middle English riven (“to rive”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse rífa (“to rend, tear apart”), from Proto-Germanic *r?fan? (“to tear, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?reyp- (“to crumble, tear”).

Cognate with Danish rive (“to tear”), Old Frisian r?va (“to tear”), Old English ?r?fan (“to let loose, unwrap”), Old Norse ript (“breach of contract, rift”), Norwegian Bokmål rive (“to tear”) and Albanian rrip (“belt, rope”). More at rift.

Verb

rive (third-person singular simple present rives, present participle riving, simple past rived or rove, past participle rived or riven)

1. (transitive, archaic except in past participle) To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave.
2. (transitive, archaic) To pierce or cleave with a weapon.
3. (intransitive) To break apart; to split.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, II.vi:

     The varlet at his plaint was grieu'd so sore, / That his deepe wounded hart in two did riue […].

   • 1728, John Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England

     Freestone i.e. that rives, splits, and breaks in any direction.
4. (transitive, rare) To burst open; explode; discharge.
   • 1821, William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Richard Farmer, The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare:

     Ten thousand French have ta'en the sacrament, To rive their dangerous artillery

5. (woodworking) To use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).

Synonyms

• (to rend asunder): cleave, rend, split

Translations

See also

• rip
• rib

Noun

rive (plural rives)

1. A place torn; a rent; a rift.

Synonyms

• (a place torn): rent, rift

Etymology 2

Compare Latin ripa (“shore”)

Noun

rive (plural rives)

1. A bank or shore.

Verb

rive

1. To land.

Anagrams

• Iver, iver, vier, vire

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri?v?/, [??i???], [??i??]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hrífa, derived from the verb Old Norse hrífa (“to grip”), from Proto-Germanic *hr?ban? (“to grip, snatch”).

Noun

rive c (singular definite riven, plural indefinite river)

1. rake

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rífa, from Proto-Germanic *r?fan?, cognate with Swedish riva, English rive. In the sense, "to rake", it is derived from the noun.

Verb

rive (past tense rev, past participle revet, common gender attributive reven, plural or definite attributive revne)

1. to grate
2. to scratch, tear, rip
3. to rake

Inflection

Finnish

Etymology

Probably from Swedish drev.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ri?e?/, [?ri?e?(?)]
• Rhymes: -i?e
• Syllabification: ri?ve

Noun

rive

1. oakum, tow

Declension

Derived terms

• tervarive

Anagrams

• revi, veri, vire

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin r?pa, from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“to cut, tear, scratch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?iv/

Noun

rive f (plural rives)

1. bank (of a river)

Related terms

• arriver
• dériver
• rivage
• rivière

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ivre, vire, viré

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin r?pa.

Noun

rive f (plural rivis)

1. slope, ascent
2. shore

Related terms

• rivâ
• riviere

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French arriver (“happen”)

Verb

rive

1. happen

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ive

Noun

rive f

1. plural of riva

Anagrams

• veri

Latin

Noun

r?ve

1. vocative singular of r?vus

References

• rive in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hrífa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri?v?/

Noun

rive f or m (definite singular riva or riven, indefinite plural river, definite plural rivene)

1. a rake (garden and agricultural tool)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rífa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri?v?/

Verb

rive (imperative riv, present tense river, passive rives, simple past rev or reiv, past participle revet, present participle rivende)

1. to grate + av
2. to scratch, tear, rip + av

Derived terms

• løsrive
• rivjern

References

• “rive” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hrífa.

Noun

rive f (definite singular riva, indefinite plural river, definite plural rivene)

1. a rake (garden and agricultural tool)

Etymology 2

Verb

rive (present tense riv, past tense reiv, supine rive, past participle riven, present participle rivande, imperative riv)

1. Alternative form of riva

References

• “rive” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.