goldbrick vs cube

cube vs goldbrick

goldbrick and cube both are nouns.

goldbrick and cube both are verbs.

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

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

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

Other hypernyms of goldbrick include block.

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

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

Difference between goldbrick and cube

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