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Backpack vs Cube - What's the difference?

backpack | cube |

As verbs the difference between backpack and cube

is that backpack is to hike and camp overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack while cube is .

As a noun backpack

is a knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when hiking]], or on a student's back when [[carry|carrying books.

backpack

English

(wikipedia backpack)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when hiking]], or on a student's back when [[carry, carrying books.
  • A similarly placed item containing a parachute or other life-support equipment.

    • Synonyms

    * back pack * haversack * knapsack (US ) * packsack * rucksack

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To hike and camp overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.
  • To engage in low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodations.
  • To place or carry (an item or items) in a backpack.

    • Derived terms

    * backpacker * backpacking

    cube

    English

    (wikipedia cube)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
  • Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
    • a sugar cube
    a stock cube
  • (mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
    • the cube of 2 is 8
  • (computing) A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube
    • Synonyms
    * regular hexahedron (rare) * (object in the form of a cube) block, brick, die, square block * (number raised to the third power) third power
    Hypernyms
    * hexahedron, cuboid

    Verb

    (cub)
  • (arithmetic) To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.
    • Three cubed can be written as 33, and equals twenty-seven.
  • To form into the shape of a cube.
  • To cut into cubes.
    • Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice.
  • (UK) to use a Rubik's cube.
    • He likes to cube now and then.
    Synonyms
    * (to cut into cubes) dice

    Related terms

    * cubic * cubical * cuboid * cubism * cubist

    Derived terms

    * bath cube * bouillon cube * cube candle * cube out * cube root * cube steak * cube van * cubiform * hypercube * ice cube * Rubik's cube * snub cube * stock cube * sugar cube

    See also

    * line segment * square * tesseract

    Etymology 2

    Clipped form of (cubicle) (with intentional reference to their common shape per ), which from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
    • My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube .

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