crosscut vs cube

crosscut

verb
  • To cut across something. 

  • To cut (wood, lumber) across the grain. 

  • To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes. 

noun
  • A crosswise cut. 

  • A shortcut. 

  • A crosscut saw. 

  • A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another. 

  • An instance of filmic crosscutting. 

cube

verb
  • To cut into cubes. 

  • To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice. 

  • To use a Rubik's cube. 

  • To form into the shape of a cube. 

noun
  • A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces. 

  • Any object more or less in the form of a cube. 

  • A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices. 

  • A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube 

  • The third power of a number, value, term or expression. 

  • A Rubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube 

How often have the words crosscut and cube occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )