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Greek Cube English Sense Latin Des Mathematical 5797.Cube

正面 5797.cube
英 [kjuːb]美 [kjʊb]

背面
释义:
n. 立方;立方体;骰子vt. 使成立方形;使自乘二次;量…的体积n. (Cube)人名;(瑞典、德)库贝
例句:
1. She sucked an ice cube into her mouth, and crunched it loudly.她吸了块冰块到嘴里,嘎嘣嘎嘣地大声嚼着。

1. 小手拍一拍,大点声。
cube 立方体词源不确定,可能来自PIE*keub,弯,转,词源同cubit,camber.
cubecube: [16] Greek kúbos meant literally ‘six-sided solid figure’, a sense handed down to English via Latin cubus. Apart from more obvious metaphorical applications, such as ‘dice’, the Greek word was used for the internal cavity of the pelvis, a semantic feature which links it with its possible relative, English hip. The fine-art term cubism was introduced to English in 1911 from French, where it seems to have been coined in 1908 by an anonymous member of the Hanging Committee of the Salon des Independents. The story goes that when a painting by Georges Braque was being shown to the committee, he exclaimed ‘Encore des Cubes! Assez de cubisme!’.cube (n.)1550s, from Middle French cube (13c.) and directly from Latin cubus, from Greek kybos "a cube, a six-sided die, vertebra," perhaps from PIE root *keu(b)- "to bend, turn." Mathematical sense is from 1550s in English (it also was in the ancient Greek word: the Greeks threw with three dice; the highest possible roll was three sixes).cube (v.)1580s in the mathematical sense; 1947 with meaning "cut in cubes," from cube (n.). The Greek verbal derivatives from the noun all referred to dice-throwing and gambling. Related: Cubed; cubing."

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