The difference between Brick and Cube
When used as nouns, brick means a hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building, whereas cube means a regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
When used as verbs, brick means to build with bricks, whereas cube means to raise to the third power.
Brick is also adjective with the meaning: extremely cold.
check bellow for the other definitions of Brick and Cube
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Brick as a noun (countable):
A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
Examples:
"This wall is made of bricks''."
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Brick as a noun (uncountable):
Considered collectively, as a building material.
Examples:
"This house is made of brick''."
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Brick as a noun (countable):
Something shaped like a brick.
Examples:
"a plastic explosive brick"
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Brick as a noun (slang, dated):
A helpful and reliable person.
Examples:
"Thanks for helping me wash the car. You're a brick."
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Brick as a noun (basketball, slang):
A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object.
Examples:
"We can't win if we keep throwing up bricks from three-point land."
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Brick as a noun (informal):
A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug.
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Brick as a noun (technology, slang):
An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
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Brick as a noun (firearms):
A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
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Brick as a noun (poker slang):
A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
Examples:
"The two of clubs was a complete brick on the river"
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Brick as a noun:
The colour brick red.
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Brick as an adjective (colloquial, AAVE, New England, of weather):
Extremely cold.
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Brick as a verb:
To build with bricks.
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Brick as a verb:
To make into bricks.
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Brick as a verb (slang):
To hit someone or something with a brick.
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Brick as a verb (computing, _, slang):
To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
Examples:
"My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm''."
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Cube as a noun (geometry):
A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
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Cube as a noun:
Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
Examples:
"a sugar cube"
"a stock cube"
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Cube as a noun (mathematics):
The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
Examples:
"the cube of 2 is 8"
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Cube as a noun (computing):
A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube
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Cube as a verb (transitive, arithmetic):
To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.
Examples:
"Three cubed can be written as 3<sup>3</sup>, and equals twenty-seven."
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Cube as a verb (transitive):
To form into the shape of a cube.
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Cube as a verb (transitive):
To cut into cubes.
Examples:
"Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice."
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Cube as a verb (UK):
to use a Rubik's cube.
Examples:
"He likes to cube now and then."
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Cube as a noun:
A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
Examples:
"My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube."