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Slice vs Cube - What's the difference?

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In transitive terms the difference between slice and cube

is that slice is to clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar while cube is to cut into cubes.

As nouns the difference between slice and cube

is that slice is that which is thin and broad while cube is a regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.

As verbs the difference between slice and cube

is that slice is to cut into slices while cube is to raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.

slice

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • That which is thin and broad.
  • A thin, broad piece cut off.
    • a slice''' of bacon''; ''a '''slice''' of cheese''; ''a '''slice of bread
  • amount
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Owen Phillips , title=Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Blackpool, chasing a seventh win in 17 league matches, simply could not contain Sunderland's rampant attack and had to resort to a combination of last-ditch defending, fine goalkeeping and a large slice of fortune. }}
  • A piece of pizza.
  • * 2010 , Andrea Renzoni, ?Eric Renzoni, Fuhgeddaboudit! (page 22)
    • For breakfast, lunch, or dinner, the best Guido meal is a slice and a Coke.
  • (British) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
    • I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.
  • A broad, thin piece of plaster.
  • A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
  • A salver, platter, or tray.
  • A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
  • One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
  • (printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
  • (golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
  • (Australia, NZ) A class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
  • (medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
  • (falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)

    • Derived terms

    * hyperslice

    Verb

    (slic)
  • To cut into slices.
    • Slice the cheese thinly.
  • To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
    • The knife left sliced his arm.
  • (golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
  • (soccer)
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 22 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Chris Brunt sliced the spot-kick well wide but his error was soon forgotten as Olsson headed home from a corner. }}
  • To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.

    • Derived terms

    * sliceable

    External links

    * (commonslite)

    Anagrams

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    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 .

    Anagrams

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