What's the difference between cube and dice?

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.

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Dice


Definition:

  • (n.) Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n.
  • (v. i.) To play games with dice.
  • (v. i.) To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.
  • (pl. ) of Die

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If this is the only issue, flight would be fine, but need to make sure that it isn’t symptomatic of a more significant upstream root cause.” Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Btw, 99% likely to be fine (closed loop TVC wd overcome error), but that 1% chance isn't worth rolling the dice.
  • (2) Now, the Balkans are once again dicing with crisis.
  • (3) We had a review in October, where the executive team headed up to Dice to see the latest on both of those games.
  • (4) The film's most chilling image, revealed later on in flashback, is of the tiny Li'l Dice returning to the motel alone and gleefully slaying everyone inside.
  • (5) The isolate of Treponema hyodysenteriae in the diced colon which was used to expose the swine was resistant to sodium arsanilate.
  • (6) No-one can deny that unions now have the dice loaded against them.
  • (7) He performed his debut show , Dicing with Dr Death, as part of the Edinburgh fringe comedy festival, described in its synopsis as “a rip-roaring ride through his 20 years working with life’s one certainty: death”.
  • (8) 800g veal shoulder, cut into 4cm dice 1 tbsp plain flour Salt and black pepper 30g unsalted butter 60ml olive oil 1 large onion, peeled and roughly chopped 200ml dry white wine 8 large sage leaves Shaved skin of 1 lemon, plus 3 tbsp lemon juice 1 550g head puntarelle (or 2 heads white chicory, cut widthways into 3cm-long segments) 1 small celeriac, peeled and chopped into 2cm dice (500g net weight) 200g pancetta, cut into 1cm dice 20g capers For the salad 1 clove garlic, peeled and crushed 1 anchovy fillet, finely chopped 2 tsp red-wine vinegar 2 tbsp olive oil 1 white chicory, cut in half lengthways and then into long, 0.5cm thick wedges (or the rest of the puntarelle, if using) 80g rocket Toss the veal in flour seasoned with a teaspoon of salt and a good grind of pepper, until evenly coated, then tap off any excess.
  • (9) There are no bonuses in the shape of a couple of extra throws of the dice.
  • (10) On Sunday, in a snap rerun of the June polls predicted to be a turning point for the nation, he rolled the dice of history, taking the riskiest gamble of his political life.
  • (11) the last throw of the dice for Ed [Richards of Ofcom] to block the deal He ... .
  • (12) Previous studies have shown that microinjected ribonuclease A is degraded to single amino acids entirely within lysosomes (McElligott, M. A., Miao, P., and Dice, J. F. (1985) J. Biol.
  • (13) Now that Obama has thrown the dice and joined the fray in Syria, Britain will feel increasing pressure to do more to help.
  • (14) While small stuffed birds used to dangle from rear view mirrors – the Maltese version of fluffy dice – such displays are now rare and hunters can face hefty fines of up to €5,000 (£3,600) and jail if they are caught killing protected species.
  • (15) For the former experiments diced explants of the human fetal pancreas were grafted beneath the renal capsule of nude mice 3 weeks before streptozotocin was administered to make the animals diabetic.
  • (16) They sliced and diced them until no one had a clue what was going on," says Wilson.
  • (17) Implanted diced neonatal pancreas in three chambers removed after 6 weeks secreted glucagon, insulin, and pancreatic polypeptide in vitro.
  • (18) It referred to betting one's entire fortune on one throw of the dice [this, it transpires, being a game called 'hazard', more commonly known as craps].
  • (19) But in an echo of what happened last year in the runup to the general election, prime minister David Cameron has rolled the dice first – privately ruling out appearing in a debate, in a story that appeared in The Sun on Monday.
  • (20) They don't seem to understand that she was their final throw of the dice, and that in the end they lost.

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