cuber

English

Etymology 1

cube (verb) +‎ -er

Noun

cuber (plural cubers)

1. Any device designed to cut things into cubes.
   • 1920, Hotel Monthly, volume 28, numbers 322-333, page 29:

     Another interesting exhibit was a bread cutter with circular revolving blade. Their newest machine is the Sterling vegetable cuber […]

Translations

device for cutting things into cubes

Etymology 2

cube (noun) +‎ -er

Noun

cuber (plural cubers)

1. A player of Rubik's cube.

   Synonyms: cubist, Rubik's cuber, Rubik's cubist

   Hyponym: speedcuber

Anagrams

• Bruce, bruce

French

Etymology

From cube +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky.be/

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Verb

cuber

1. to cube (a number) (raise to the power of 3)

Conjugation

Conjugation of cuber (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cuber
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cubant /ky.bɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cubé /ky.be/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cube /kyb/	cubes /kyb/	cube /kyb/	cubons /ky.bɔ̃/	cubez /ky.be/	cubent /kyb/
	imperfect	cubais /ky.bɛ/	cubais /ky.bɛ/	cubait /ky.bɛ/	cubions /ky.bjɔ̃/	cubiez /ky.bje/	cubaient /ky.bɛ/
	past historic2	cubai /ky.be/	cubas /ky.ba/	cuba /ky.ba/	cubâmes /ky.bam/	cubâtes /ky.bat/	cubèrent /ky.bɛʁ/
	future	cuberai /ky.bʁe/	cuberas /ky.bʁa/	cubera /ky.bʁa/	cuberons /ky.bʁɔ̃/	cuberez /ky.bʁe/	cuberont /ky.bʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cuberais /ky.bʁɛ/	cuberais /ky.bʁɛ/	cuberait /ky.bʁɛ/	cuberions /ky.bə.ʁjɔ̃/	cuberiez /ky.bə.ʁje/	cuberaient /ky.bʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	cube /kyb/	cubes /kyb/	cube /kyb/	cubions /ky.bjɔ̃/	cubiez /ky.bje/	cubent /kyb/
	imperfect2	cubasse /ky.bas/	cubasses /ky.bas/	cubât /ky.ba/	cubassions /ky.ba.sjɔ̃/	cubassiez /ky.ba.sje/	cubassent /ky.bas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cube /kyb/	—	cubons /ky.bɔ̃/	cubez /ky.be/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “cuber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.