dice vs cube

dice and cube both are nouns.

dice and cube both are verbs.

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

As nouns, cube is a hypernym of dice; that is, cube is a word with a broader meaning than dice:

dice: a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers
cube: a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube

Other hypernyms of dice include square block.

As verbs, dice and cube are synonyms defined as:

dice and cube: cut into cubes

dice (noun)	cube (noun)
a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers	a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube
	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
	the product of three equal terms
	a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces
	a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides

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

Difference between dice and cube

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