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cube

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a three-dimensional figure made of six square or rectangular faces

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  • The dice used in board games are typically shaped like cubes.
  • The child stacked colorful toy cubes to build a tower.
  • The classroom had storage bins shaped like colorful cubes for organizing supplies.
  • The teacher used wooden cubes as math manipulatives to teach volume and geometry.
  • The ice in the cooler was formed into perfect cubes.
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a solid with six congruent square faces

3

a block roughly resembling a cube in shape

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4

a tropical American woody plant of the genus Lonchocarpus, whose roots are used as fish poison and as a commercial source of rotenone

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the result of multiplying a number by itself three times