Cube vs Rive - What's the difference?
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(geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
(mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
(computing) A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube
(arithmetic) To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.
To form into the shape of a cube.
To cut into cubes.
(UK) to use a Rubik's cube.
A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
To tear apart by force; to split; to cleave.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
To pierce or cleave with a weapon.
* :
(label) To break apart; to split.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , II.vi:
* (1665-1728)
In woodworking, to use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).
Cube is a related term of rive.
As verbs the difference between cube and rive
is that cube is while rive is .cube
English
(wikipedia cube)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- a sugar cube
- a stock cube
- the cube of 2 is 8
Synonyms
* regular hexahedron (rare) * (object in the form of a cube) block, brick, die, square block * (number raised to the third power) third powerHypernyms
* hexahedron, cuboidVerb
(cub)- Three cubed can be written as 33, and equals twenty-seven.
- Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice.
- He likes to cube now and then.
Synonyms
* (to cut into cubes) diceDerived 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 cubeSee also
* line segment * square * tesseractEtymology 2
Clipped form of (cubicle) (with intentional reference to their common shape per ), which from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube .
Anagrams
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English
Verb
- I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds / Have rived the knotty oaks
- And therwith she toke the swerd from her loue that lay ded and fylle to the ground in a swowne / And whan she aroos she made grete dole out of mesure / the whiche sorowe greued Balyn passyngly sore / and he wente vnto her for to haue taken the swerd oute of her h?d butsodenly she sette the pomell to the ground / and rofe her self thorow the body
- The varlet at his plaint was grieu'd so sore, / That his deepe wounded hart in two did riue .
- Freestone rives , splits, and breaks in any direction.