cube vs quadrate

cube and quadrate both are nouns.

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

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

Other hyponyms of cube include tesseract.

cube (noun)	quadrate (noun)
a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube	a square-shaped object
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 cubelike object
the product of three equal terms
a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces
a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides

cube (adjective)	quadrate (adjective)
	having four sides and four angles

cube (verb)	quadrate (verb)
raise to the third power
cut into cubes