SPHEARS Antonyms

• a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces

• a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides

• the product of three equal terms

• 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

• a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube

• raise to the third power

• cut into cubes

• a solid bounded by a cylindrical surface and two parallel planes (the bases)

• a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line

• a chamber within which piston moves

• a cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air

• A polyhedron with twelve faces; the regular dodecahedron has regular pentagons as faces and is one of the Platonic solids.

• a surface whose plane sections are all ellipses or circles

• having the nature or shape of an ellipsoid

• an egg-shaped object

• rounded like an egg

• a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms

• optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image

• a massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides; begun by Cheops around 2700 BC as royal tombs in ancient Egypt

• a polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex

• (stock market) a series of transactions in which the speculator increases his holdings by using the rising market value of those holdings as margin for further purchases

• enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts

• use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal

• arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid

• increase rapidly and progressively step by step on a broad base

• A polyhedron with four faces; the regular tetrahedron, the faces of which are equal equilateral triangles, is one of the Platonic solids.