Slash vs Cube - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between slash and cube

is that slash is to reduce sharply while cube is to cut into cubes.

As nouns the difference between slash and cube

is that slash is a swift cut with a blade, particularly with fighting weapons as a sword, saber, knife etc while cube is a regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.

As verbs the difference between slash and cube

is that slash is to cut violently across something with a blade such as knife, sword, scythe, etc while cube is to raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.

As a conjunction slash

is Used to connect two or more identities in a list.

slash
English

Noun
(es)
A swift cut with a blade, particularly with fighting weapons as a sword, saber, knife etc.

A swift striking movement.

* {{quote-news
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The symbol , also called diagonal, separatrix, shilling mark, solidus, stroke, virgule. Also sometimes known as a forward slash, particularly in computing.

(British, slang) A pee, a trip to the toilet to urinate

Excuse me, I need to take a slash

Slash fiction.

* 2013 , Katherine Arcement, "Diary", London Review of Books , vol. 35, no. 5:

Comments merely allow readers to proclaim themselves mortally offended by the content of a story, despite having been warned in large block letters of INCEST or SLASH (any kind of sex between two men or two women: the term originated with the Kirk/Spock pairing – it described the literal slash between their names).

(vulgar, slang) The female genitalia

(ice hockey) A quick and hard lateral strike with a hockey stick, usually across the arms or legs.

(US, dialect) swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes

(Bartlett)

(forestry) Coarse, fine woody debris generated during logging operations or through wind, snow, etc.

Slash generated during logging operations may increase fire hazard.

(fashion) An opening in an item of clothing to show skin or a contrasting fabric underneath.

Derived terms
* backslash * foreslash * forward slash * frontslash * front slash * slashable * slashy
See also
(punctuation)
Verb
(es)
To cut violently across something with a blade such as knife, sword, scythe, etc.

(ice hockey) to strike laterally with a hockey stick. usually across the legs or arms

to reduce sharply

Iran on Thursday called on OPEC to slash output by 2 million barrels per day.

The department store slashed its prices to attract customers.

To lash with a whip.

(King)

To crack or snap (e.g. a whip).

Derived terms
slash pile
Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)

I'm a teacher slash student.

I think I'm having hallucinations slash someone is playing tricks on me

See also
*
Quotations
* (English Citations of "slash") English coordinating conjunctions
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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