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cubing

3.2

To cut food into small cubes for cooking

noun
/ˈkjuːbɪŋ/

: corte en cubos

Cubing vegetables makes them cook evenly and quickly in stir-fries.

Examples

For the salad, she spent time cubing the cheese and cucumbers into small, uniform pieces.
So if we're cubing this, we're basically cubing this product.
He is an expert in cubing meat for the barbecue, ensuring all pieces are the same size.

How Small

cubing

3.2

slicing

2 1.9

Surface Forms

cubing singular

cubings plural

Morphology

cubing = cube (transparent) = cube + ing

Regular nominalization of the verb 'cube' meaning 'to cut into cubes'; the action meaning is directly recoverable from the base and '-ing'.

Etymology

Cubing comes from the simple word cube, which means 'a box with six square sides' like an ice cube. In cooking, to cube something is 'to cut it into small cube-shaped pieces', so cubing is the act of cutting food into those small blocks.