different between gash vs cube

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

Alteration of older garsh, from Middle English garsen, from Old French garser, jarsier (Modern French gercer), from Vulgar Latin *charax?re, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kharakt?r, “engraver”).

Alternative forms

• garsh (dated)

Noun

gash (countable and uncountable, plural gashes)

1. A deep cut.
   • 2006, New York Times, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, [1]:

     Vowing that he was “never going to forget the lessons of that day,” President Bush paid tribute last night to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, laying wreaths at ground zero, attending a prayer service at St. Paul’s Chapel and making a surprise stop at a firehouse and a memorial museum overlooking the vast gash in the ground where the twin towers once stood.

2. (slang, vulgar) A vulva.
   • 1959, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, 50th anniversary edition (2009), p. 126:

     “Oh Gertie it’s true. It’s all true. They’ve got a horrid gash instead of a thrilling thing.”

3. (slang, offensive) A woman
   • 1934, James T. Farrell, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, Ch. 19:

     "Will you bastards quit singing the blues? You're young, and there's plenty of gash in the world, and the supply of moon goes on forever," Simonsky said.

4. (slang, British Royal Navy) Rubbish, spare kit
5. (slang) Rubbish on board an aircraft
6. (slang) Unused film or sound during film editing
7. (slang) Poor quality beer, usually watered down.

Translations

Adjective

gash (comparative more gash, superlative most gash)

1. (slang) Of poor quality; makeshift; improvised; temporary; substituted.

Verb

gash (third-person singular simple present gashes, present participle gashing, simple past and past participle gashed)

1. To make a deep, long cut; to slash.

Translations

Etymology 2

From ghastful, by association with gash.

Adjective

gash (comparative more gash, superlative most gash)

1. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) ghastly; hideous

Related terms

• gashful
• gashly

Anagrams

• HAGS, hags, shag

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