cup meaning
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- A cup is a small open container used for drinking and carrying drinks. It may be made of wood, plastic, glass, clay, metal, stone, china or other materials, and may have a stem, handles or other adornments.
- Cups have been used for thousands of years for the purpose of carrying food and drink, as well as for decoration. They may also be used in certain cultural rituals and to hold objects not intended for drinking, such as coins or soup.
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- NounPLcups
- A concave vessel for drinking from, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
- [ …] a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain [ …] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate [ …] “stateless income”: [ …] . In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
- A US unit of liquid measure equal to 8 fluid ounces, 1/16 of a US gallon, or 236.5882365 ml.
- A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
- Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. [ …] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
- A contest for which a cup is awarded.
- The World Cup is the world's most widely watched sporting event.
- (golf) A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.
- The ball just misses the cup.
- (US) A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia. (for UK usage see box).
- Players of contact sports are advised to wear a cup.
- One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast, used as a measurement of size.
- The cups are made of a particularly uncomfortable material.
- (mathematics) The symbol denoting union and similar operations (confer cap).
- A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.
- (ultimate frisbee) A defensive style characterized by a three player near defense cupping the thrower; or those three players.
- A flexible concave membrane used to temporarily attach a handle or hook to a flat surface by means of suction (suction cup).
- Anything shaped like a cup.
- the cup of an acorn
- (medicine, historical) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
- That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.
- A concave vessel for drinking from, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
- VerbSGcupsPRcuppingPT, PPcupped
- (transitive) To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.
- Cup your hands and I'll pour some rice into them.
- (transitive) To hold something in cupped hands.
- He cupped the ball carefully in his hands.
- (transitive, obsolete) To supply with cups of wine.
- (transitive, surgery, archaic) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping.
- (transitive, engineering) To make concave or in the form of a cup.
- to cup the end of a screw
- (transitive) To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- After banishing his[sic] immediately to the shower on arrival home (grin), I use a full cup of vinegar (plain cheap white stuff) tossed into the wash to destinkify his clothes.
- Can the increase be attributed to the Stanley Cup win by last season’s fightingest team, Anaheim, or to the campaign to loosen instigator rules by its general manager, Brian Burke?
- Since that upheaval Wales have won just once in seven games, beating Northern Ireland in the Nations Cup last May.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Wolves swept aside Championship outfit Doncaster at Molineux to earn a place in the fourth round of the FA Cup.
- Jim will win fifty dollars in the office sweep if Japan wins the World Cup.
- A while ago I read your column concerning the effects of hot tea on styrofoam cups.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of cup in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "cup" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.