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/ˈkʌp/
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Australian, New-Zealand:
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Australian, New-Zealand:
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Ireland, Northern-England:
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CMU ARPABET:
K AH1 P
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Initialism of Cambridge University Press.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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Initialism of Committee of Union and Progress.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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A particular trophy that is a cup; sometimes with the definite article "the".
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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A concave vessel for drinking, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
Pour the tea into the cup.
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The contents of said vessel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
I drank two cups of water but still felt thirsty.
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Synonyms: cupful
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A customary unit of measure
A US unit of liquid measure equal to 8 fluid ounces (1⁄16 of a US gallon; 236.5882365 mL) or 240 mL.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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A customary unit of measure
A Canadian unit of measure equal to 8 imperial ounces (1⁄20 imperial gallon; 227.3 mL) or 250 mL.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada
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A customary unit of measure
A British unit of measure equal to 1⁄2 imperial pint (10 imperial ounces; 284 mL) or 300 mL.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dated
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A customary unit of measure
A metric unit of measure equal to 250 mL.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, New-Zealand
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A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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The World Cup is awarded to the winner of a quadrennial football tournament.
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A contest for which a cup is awarded.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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The World Cup is the world's most widely watched sporting event.
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The main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, soccer, sports
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A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: golf, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
Examples
The ball just misses the cup.
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A container in which dice are held and shaken before being thrown.
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Any of various sweetened alcoholic drinks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-compounds
Examples
cider cup gin cup claret cup
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A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US
Examples
Players of contact sports are advised to wear a cup.
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Synonyms: box
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One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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The cups are made of a particularly uncomfortable material.
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One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast.
Prefixed with a letter, used as a measurement of bra or breast size.
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The symbol ∪ denoting union and similar operations.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, philosophy, sciences, tarot
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A defensive style characterized by a three player near defense cupping the thrower; or those three players.
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Qualifier: ultimate frisbee
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A flexible concave membrane used to temporarily attach a handle or hook to a flat surface by means of suction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Anything shaped like a cup.
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A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: medicine, sciences
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That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion of blessings and afflictions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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A win of a championship that is awarded a cup.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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A win of an event comprising part of the championship, which is awarded a cup
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
Cup your hands and I'll pour some rice into them.
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To hold something in cupped hands.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
He cupped the ball carefully in his hands.
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To pour (a liquid, drink, etc.) into a cup.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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We are cupping some new brands of coffee today.
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To supply with cups of wine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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To apply a cup or cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
Topics: medicine, sciences, surgery
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To make concave or in the form of a cup.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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to cup the end of a screw
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a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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he put the cup back in the saucer the handle of the cup was missing
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Broader terms: container, crockery, dishware
Narrower terms: beaker, chalice, goblet, coffee cup, Dixie cup, paper cup, grace cup, kylix, cylix, mustache cup, moustache cup, scyphus, teacup
a large metal vessel with two handles that is awarded as a trophy to the winner of a competition
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
the school kept the cups is a special glass case
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Synonyms: loving cup
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Broader terms: trophy, prize
Narrower terms: Davis Cup
the hole (or metal container in the hole) on a golf green
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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he swore as the ball rimmed the cup and rolled away put the flag back in the cup
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Broader terms: hole
a punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: punch
Narrower terms: champagne cup, claret cup
cup-shaped plant organ
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: plant organ
Narrower terms: cupule, acorn cup
a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: United States liquid unit
the quantity a cup will hold
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
he drank a cup of coffee he borrowed a cup of sugar
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Synonyms: cupful
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Broader terms: containerful
any cup-shaped concavity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
bees filled the waxen cups with honey he wore a jock strap with a metal cup the cup of her bra
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Broader terms: concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature
treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: transfuse
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Broader terms: treat, care for
put into a cup
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Broader terms: insert, enclose, inclose, stick in, put in, introduce
form into the shape of a cup
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Broader terms: shape, form
Capitalization of cup
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kewp-der. Latin cūpa ▲ Frankish *koppinflu.? Late Latin cuppabor.? Proto-Indo-European *gew-der. Proto-Germanic *kuppaz? Old English cuppe ▲ Proto-Germanic *kuppaz Old English copp Middle English cuppe, coppe English cup Inherited from Middle English cuppe, coppe, from the merger of Old English cuppe (“cup”) and Old English copp (“cup, vessel”). Old English cuppe is a borrowing from Late Latin cuppa, itself of obscure origin, but probably from earlier Latin cūpa (“tub, cask”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”). Old English copp, however, is from Proto-West Germanic *kopp (“round object, bowl, vessel, knoll, summit, crown of the head”), from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve, arch”) (whence also obsolete English cop (“top, summit, crown of the head”), German Kopf (“top, head”)). The Middle English word was further reinforced by Anglo-Norman cupe and Old French cope, coupe, from Latin cuppa. Compare also Saterland Frisian Kop (“cup”), West Frisian kop (“cup”), Dutch kop (“cup”), German Low German Koppke, Köppke (“cup”), Danish kop (“cup”), Swedish kopp (“cup”). Doublet of coupe, hive, and keeve.