quadrate vs cube

quadrate and cube both are nouns.

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

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

Other hypernyms of quadrate include regular hexahedron.

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

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

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