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Sled vs Cube - What's the difference?

sled | cube |

As verbs the difference between sled and cube

is that sled is to ride a sled while cube is .

As a noun sled

is a small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice.

sled

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice.
    • The child zoomed down the hill on his sled .
  • (US) A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice.
    • "Mush!" he yelled at the dogs pulling the sled .

    Derived terms

    * bobsled * dogsled * rocket sled * sledding

    See also

    (wikipedia sled) * sledge * sleigh * toboggan

    Verb

  • To ride a sled.

    • Anagrams

    * * * * ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Alternative forms

    * (Ijekavian ):

    Noun

  • sequence
  • track

    • Declension

    {{sh-decl-noun , sl?d, sl?dovi , sleda, sledova , sledu, sledovima , sled, sledove , slede, sledovi , sledu, sledovima , sledom, sledovima }}

    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

    * ----