cup
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Noun (8)cups
- a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle“he put the cup back in the saucer”“the handle of the cup was missing”Type of crockery, containerKinds coffee cup, grace cup, teacup, scyphus, chalice, kylix, mustache cup, beaker, Dixie cup, muffin case
- the quantity a cup will hold“he drank a cup of coffee”“he borrowed a cup of sugar”Synonyms: cupfulType of containerful
- any cup-shaped concavity“bees filled the waxen cups with honey”“he wore a jock strap with a metal cup”“the cup of her bra”Type of concave shape, concavity
- a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ouncesType of United States liquid unitPart of pintParts gill
- cup-shaped plant organType of plant organKinds cupule, acorn cup
- a punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowlType of punchKinds claret cup, champagne cup
- the hole (or metal container in the hole) on a golf green“he swore as the ball rimmed the cup and rolled away”“put the flag back in the cup”
- a large metal vessel with two handles that is awarded as a trophy to the winner of a competition“the school kept the cups in a special glass case”Synonyms: loving cup
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Translations
Noun drinking vessel
- Spanish
- taza
- French
- tasse
- German
- Tasse
- Italian
- tazza
- Portuguese
- xícara
- Turkish
- fincan
- Russian
- ча́шка čáška
- Arabic
- فِنْجَان finjān
- Chinese
- 杯子 bēizi
- Japanese
- カップ kappu
36 more languages
- Dutch
- kop
- Polish
- filiżanka
- Swedish
- kopp
- Greek
- φλιτζάνι flitzáni
- Korean
- 컵 keop
- Indonesian
- cangkir
- Vietnamese
- tách
- Hungarian
- csésze
- Portuguese (PT)
- chávena
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 杯子 bēizi
- Albanian
- filxhan
- Breton
- hanaf
- Catalan
- tassa
- Corsican
- tazza
- Czech
- šálek
- Danish
- kop
- Esperanto
- taso
- Estonian
- tass
- Finnish
- kuppi
- Georgian
- ფინჯანი pinǯani
- Hebrew
- סֵפֶל séfel
- Icelandic
- bolli
- Kurdish
- fîncan
- Latvian
- tase
- Lithuanian
- puodelis
- Malagasy
- kaopy
- Norwegian
- kopp
- Romanian
- ceașcă
- Scottish Gaelic
- cupa
- Serbo-Croatian
- šalica
- Slovak
- šálka
- Slovenian
- skodelica
- Swahili
- kikombe
- Walloon
- djate
- Welsh
- cwpan
- Yiddish
- כּוס kos
Noun trophy cup
- Spanish
- copa
- French
- coupe
- German
- Pokal
- Italian
- coppa
- Portuguese
- taça
- Turkish
- kupa
- Russian
- ку́бок kúbok
- Arabic
- كَأْس kaʔs
- Chinese
- 奖杯 jiǎngbēi
- Japanese
- 優勝カップ yūshō kappu
23 more languages
- Dutch
- beker
- Polish
- puchar
- Swedish
- pokal
- Greek
- κύπελλο kýpello
- Vietnamese
- cúp
- Hungarian
- kupa
- Portuguese (PT)
- taça
- Albanian
- kupë
- Catalan
- copa
- Czech
- pohár
- Danish
- pokal
- Esperanto
- pokalo
- Finnish
- pokaali
- Hebrew
- גָּבִיעַ gavía'
- Icelandic
- bikar
- Latvian
- kauss
- Lithuanian
- taurė
- Malagasy
- kaopy
- Norwegian
- pokal
- Romanian
- cupă
- Slovak
- pohár
- Swahili
- kombe
- Welsh
- cwpan
Noun cup competition
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: AS. cuppe, LL. cuppa cup; cf. L. cupa tub, cask; cf. also Gr. κύπη hut, Skr. kūpa pit, hollow, OSlav. kupa cup. Cf. Coop, Cupola, Cowl a water vessel, and Cob, Coif, Cop.
1. A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and the like.
2. The contents of such a vessel; a cupful.
Give me a cup of sack, boy.— William Shakespeare
3. pl. Repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry.
Thence from cups to civil broils.— John Milton
4. That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.
O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.— Matt. xxvi. 39.
5. Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower.
The cowslip's golden cup no more I see.— William Shenstone
6. Medicine A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
Cup and ball, a familiar toy of children, having a cup on the top of a piece of wood to which, a ball is attached by a cord; the ball, being thrown up, is to be caught in the cup; bilboquet. Henry Hart Milman — Cup and can, familiar companions. — Dry cup, Wet cup Medicine, a cup used for dry or wet cupping. See under Cupping. — To be in one's cups, to be drunk.
1. To supply with cups of wine. rare
Cup us, till the world go round.— William Shakespeare
2. Surgery To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping.
3. Mechanics To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54