Brick vs. Cube — What's the Difference?

A brick is a type of block used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction. Properly, the term brick denotes a block composed of dried clay, but is now also used informally to denote other chemically cured construction blocks.

In geometry, a cube is a three-dimensional solid object bounded by six square faces, facets or sides, with three meeting at each vertex. The cube is the only regular hexahedron and is one of the five Platonic solids.

A small rectangular block typically made of fired or sun-dried clay, used in building.

(Mathematics) A regular solid having six congruent square faces.

A large and relatively heavy mobile phone, typically an early model with limited functionality

Something having the general shape of a cube

A generous, helpful, and reliable person

A cubicle, used for work or study.

Block or enclose with a wall of bricks

(Mathematics) The third power of a number or quantity.

Throw bricks at

Cubes(Slang) Cubic inches. Used especially of an internal combustion engine.

Cause (a smartphone or other electronic device) to become completely unable to function, typically on a permanent basis

(Mathematics) To raise (a quantity or number) to the third power.

Be extremely worried or nervous.

To determine the cubic contents of.

A molded rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln until hard and used as a building and paving material.

To form or cut into cubes

Such blocks of clay used as a building material

To tenderize (meat) by breaking the fibers with superficial cuts in a pattern of squares.

An object shaped like such a block

(geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.

(Informal) A smartphone, tablet, or similar electronic device that connects to the internet that has become inoperable.

Any object more or less in the form of a cube.

A dark brownish red.

(mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.

(Informal) A helpful, reliable person.

(computing) A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube

(Basketball) A shot that falls short of the basket.

A Rubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube

To construct, line, or pave with bricks.

A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.

To close or wall with brick

To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.

(Informal) To cause to become inoperable. Used especially of electronic devices, such as smartphones and tablets, that connect to the internet. I bricked my smartphone when I tried to untether it.

(transitive) To form into the shape of a cube.

(Informal) To become inoperable. Used especially of electronic devices, such as smartphones and tablets, that connect to the internet.

(transitive) To cut into cubes.

(countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.

(intransitive) To use a Rubik's cube.

(uncountable) Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.

A regular solid body, with six equal square sides.

(countable) Something shaped like a brick.

The product obtained by taking a number or quantity three times as a factor; as, 4x4=16, and 16x4=64, the cube of 4.

A helpful and reliable person.

To raise to the third power; to obtain the cube of.

A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object.

A three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides

(informal) A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug.

A hexahedron with six equal squares as faces

An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.

The product of three equal terms

A projectile.

Any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone

(firearms) A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.

A block in the (approximate) shape of a cube

(poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.

Raise to the third power

The colour brick red.

Cut into cubes;

(slang) A kilogram of cocaine.

Extremely cold.

(transitive) To build, line, or form with bricks.

(transitive) To make into bricks.

To hit someone or something with a brick.

To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.

To blunder; to screw up.

A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp.

Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.

Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread).

A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick.

To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.

To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them.

Rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material

A good fellow; helpful and trustworthy