cube

角切り、立方体

ほぼ立方体の形をした物や小さな切れ端。

やさしい英語で： An object or piece of something with roughly six square sides.

• Put an ice cube in the glass.
• He takes two sugar cubes in his coffee.
• Cut the cheese into small cubes.

使い方： a cube of something (She dropped a cube of ice into her glass.)

類義語： block

よく使う表現： ice cube, sugar cube, cube of cheese

立方体

同じ大きさの正方形の面が六つある立体。

やさしい英語で： A solid shape with six equal square sides.

• A cube has six faces.
• The children drew cubes in their notebooks.
• What is the volume of this cube?

よく使う表現： draw a cube, cube shape, volume of a cube

三乗

同じ数を三つ掛け合わせて得られる値。

やさしい英語で： The result of multiplying a number by itself and then by itself again.

• The cube of two is eight.
• Calculate the cubes of these numbers.
• Is twenty-seven a perfect cube?

使い方： the cube of a number (The cube of four is sixty-four.)

類義語： third power

よく使う表現： cube of something, perfect cube, calculate the cube

個別ブース

オフィスで低い仕切りに囲まれた小さな作業スペース。

やさしい英語で： A small work area in an office, separated from others by low walls.

• My cube is beside the window.
• She decorated her cube with family photos.
• Who works in the cube next door?

類義語： cubicle

よく使う表現： office cube, in my cube, cube next door

角切りにする

食べ物を小さな立方体に近い形に切る。

やさしい英語で： To cut food into small pieces with roughly square sides.

• Cube the potatoes before cooking them.
• She cubed the cheese for the salad.
• Peel and cube the carrots, then add them to the pan.

類義語： dice

よく使う表現： cube the meat, cube the potatoes, cube something finely

三乗する

同じ数を三つ掛け合わせる。

やさしい英語で： To multiply a number by itself and then by itself again.

• Cube two to get eight.
• We cubed each number in the list.
• What happens if you cube a negative number?

類義語： raise to the third power

よく使う表現： cube a number, cube the result

立方体に成形する

物を、同じ大きさの正方形の面が六つある形にする。

やさしい英語で： To make something into a solid shape with six equal square sides.

• Cube the clay using this mold.
• The machine cubes the material under pressure.
• They cubed the wax before packing it.

よく使う表現： cube the clay, cube the material

ルービックキューブを解く

ルービックキューブで遊んだり、色をそろえて解いたりする。

やさしい英語で： To play with or solve a Rubik’s Cube puzzle.

• I like to cube after school.
• She cubed for hours before the competition.
• Do you cube just for fun or try to beat records?

よく使う表現： cube for fun, learn to cube, cube every day