The difference between Cube and Die

When used as nouns, cube means a regular polyhedron having six identical square faces, whereas die means the cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth.

When used as verbs, cube means to raise to the third power, whereas die means to stop living.

check bellow for the other definitions of Cube and Die

  1. Cube as a noun (geometry):

    A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.

  2. Cube as a noun:

    Any object more or less in the form of a cube.

    Examples:

    "a sugar cube"

    "a stock cube"

  3. Cube as a noun (mathematics):

    The third power of a number, value, term or expression.

    Examples:

    "the cube of 2 is 8"

  4. Cube as a noun (computing):

    A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube

  1. 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."

  2. Cube as a verb (transitive):

    To form into the shape of a cube.

  3. Cube as a verb (transitive):

    To cut into cubes.

    Examples:

    "Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice."

  4. Cube as a verb (UK):

    to use a Rubik's cube.

    Examples:

    "He likes to cube now and then."

  1. 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."

  1. Die as a verb (intransitive):

    To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. or the sciences:}} :

    Examples:

    "He died of embarrassment."

    "He died from heart failure."

    "He died for the one he loved."

    "She died with dignity."

  2. Die as a verb (transitive):

    To stop living and undergo (a specified death).

    Examples:

    "He died a hero's death."

    "They died a thousand deaths."

  3. Die as a verb (intransitive, figuratively):

    To yearn intensely.

    Examples:

    "I'm dying for a packet of crisps."

    "I'm dying for a piss."

  4. Die as a verb (intransitive):

    To be utterly cut off by family or friends, as if dead.

    Examples:

    "The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother."

  5. Die as a verb (intransitive, figuratively):

    To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.

    Examples:

    "He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him."

  6. Die as a verb (intransitive, colloquial, hyperbolic):

    To be mortified or shocked by a situation.

    Examples:

    "If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die."

  7. Die as a verb (figurative, intransitive, hyperbolic):

    To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.

    Examples:

    "When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died."

  8. Die as a verb (intransitive, of a, machine):

    To stop working, to break down.

    Examples:

    "My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning."

  9. Die as a verb (intransitive, of a, computer program):

    To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).

  10. Die as a verb:

    To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.

  11. Die as a verb:

    To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.

  12. Die as a verb (often with "to"):

    To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.

    Examples:

    "to die to pleasure or to sin"

  13. Die as a verb (intransitive, video games):

    To be killed by an enemy. Usually followed by to or another preposition.

    Examples:

    "I can't believe I just died to a squirrel!"

  14. Die as a verb (architecture):

    To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.

  15. Die as a verb:

    To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.

  16. Die as a verb (of a stand-up comedian or a joke):

    To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.

    Examples:

    "Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal..."

  1. Die as a noun:

    The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth.

  2. Die as a noun:

    A device for cutting into a specified shape.

  3. Die as a noun:

    A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)

  4. Die as a noun:

    A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.

  5. Die as a noun:

    An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.

  6. Die as a noun (electronics):

    (plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.

  7. Die as a noun:

    Any small cubical or square body.

  1. Die as a noun:

    A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.

  2. Die as a noun (obsolete):

    That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.

  3. Die as a noun (electronics):

    (plural also dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.

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