What's the difference between cube and cubeb?

Cube


Definition:

  • (n.) A regular solid body, with six equal square sides.
  • (n.) The product obtained by taking a number or quantity three times as a factor; as, 4x4=16, and 16x4=64, the cube of 4.
  • (v. t.) To raise to the third power; to obtain the cube of.

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  • (1) We examined AMT with regard to (1) its papain activity; (2) its ability to digest meat cubes in vitro; and (3) its effect on rabbit esophageal mucosa.
  • (2) There is a developmental sequence of pencil grasp, and useful development scales in copying cube models, drawing geometric shapes, and the draw-a-man test.
  • (3) First, the parameters of the two angiographic projections are determined in form of two 4 x 3 matrices from a pair of cineframes showing a 4 cm cube bearing markers.
  • (4) One format is that of multiplanar reconstruction of the eye and orbit, including an "oblique CT cube" image.
  • (5) If you squat in the corner of a big cube ( a cubical room, say), you can see at least a floor, a ceiling and three walls.
  • (6) Oxygen diffusion distance was measured in solid tumor "cubes" prepared by excising the tumor from the mouse and incubating 1-2 mm sided tumor cubes in spinner culture flasks with fluorescent drugs (AF-2 or DM113) which bind to hypoxic cells.
  • (7) 3 For the smoked mackerel pate, peel the sweet potato and chop into cubes.
  • (8) I live close to the Bird’s Nest stadium and the Water Cube and see many people visiting both venues every day,” he said.
  • (9) A cube with side length 6.5 mm or a cylindrical specimen with 7.5 mm diameter and 6.5 mm length are suggested as standard specimens for comparative studies on trabecular bone mechanics.
  • (10) I couldn't handle the hangovers: waking up in the sticky filth of the Colony Room on the floor; sweating my way though meetings at White Cube; going to meet Larry [Gagosian] on the Anadin, the Nurofen, the Berocca and the Vicks nasal spray, looking like an alcoholic tramp.
  • (11) The EMI values were correlated with physical density, electron density, and atomic number cubed (Z3).
  • (12) It had a “flat, nasty” ring to it, she says, which she has since “analysed like a Rubik’s cube; I have turned it every which way.
  • (13) By comparison of the scattering curves with triaxial geometric bodies which are equivalent in scattering, the tetrameric enzyme is described as a rectangular prism, with overall dimensions of A = 131.0 A, B = 131.0 A, and C = 65.0 A, and the octameric form as that of a cube with A = B = C = 120.0 A.
  • (14) When the man with the Rubik's Cube arrived, it was Edward Snowden."
  • (15) Children between the ages of 6 and 14 years were asked to draw an L-shaped array of three cubes from one of three views: frontal eye level, frontal looking down, and corner looking down.
  • (16) Pour the chopped tomatoes over the peaches and onions, add chopped coriander, cumin and a finely crumbled stock cube and stir in.
  • (17) The contribution of the decreased weight to the decrease in absolute AGD was examined by a variety of methods (ratio of AGD to cube root of weight or biparietal distance, comparison to weight-matched controls, and covariance analysis).
  • (18) College students and community-dwelling adults studied and later reconstructed a three-dimensional arrangement of common or abstract objects located in a compartmentalized cube so that relocation errors could be independently measured within the horizontal, vertical, and depth dimensions.
  • (19) Regional cerebral blood flow was measured in 19 subjects during the performance of three tasks thought to primarily involve right hemisphere processing: judgement of line orientation, mental rotation of three-dimensional cube arrays, and a fragment puzzle task.
  • (20) We studied gastric emptying of three differently shaped particles, (cubes, spheres, rods) of either hard or soft consistency during the fasting state in human volunteers.

Cubeb


Definition:

  • (n.) The small, spicy berry of a species of pepper (Piper Cubeba; in med., Cubeba officinalis), native in Java and Borneo, but now cultivated in various tropical countries. The dried unripe fruit is much used in medicine as a stimulant and purgative.

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