cube vs goldbrick

goldbrick vs cube

cube and goldbrick both are nouns.

cube and goldbrick both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cube	Yes	No	Yes	No
goldbrick	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, goldbrick is a hyponym of cube; that is, goldbrick is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cube:

cube: a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides
goldbrick: a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not

cube (noun)	goldbrick (noun)
a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube	anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless
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	a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not
the product of three equal terms	an idle worthless person
a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces	a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort
a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides

cube (verb)	goldbrick (verb)
raise to the third power	avoid (one's assigned duties)
cut into cubes	deprive of by deceit

Difference between cube and goldbrick

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