Pronunciations (5)
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/ˈkʌp/
Pronunciation notes
- Canada
- General-American
- Received-Pronunciation
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/ˈkɐp/
Pronunciation notes
- Australia
- New-Zealand
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[ˈkɐ̞p]
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- Australia
- New-Zealand
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/ˈkʊp/
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- Ireland
- Northern-England
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kʌp
Noun
A concave vessel for drinking, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
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This cup has a small handle.
Pour the tea into the cup.
The contents of said vessel.
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Would you like another cup of tea?
I drank two cups of water but still felt thirsty.
In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
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.
Usage- US usage
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.
Usage- Canada
A customary unit of measure A British unit of measure equal to ¹⁄₂ imperial pint (10 imperial ounces; 284 mL) or 300 mL.
Usage- UK usage
- Dated
A customary unit of measure A metric unit of measure equal to 250 mL.
Usage- Australia
- New-Zealand
A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
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The World Cup is awarded to the winner of a quadrennial football tournament.
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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.
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The World Cup is the world's most widely watched sporting event.
The main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league.
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Until it was disbanded in 1999, the European Cup-Winners Cup was contested annually by the winners of Europe's national cups.
Wallace had the unique distinction of being the only player ever to play in the English, Welsh and Scottish Cups in the same season.
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One week earlier, they had lost 5-2 to Borussia Dortmund in the DFB-Pokal [the German cup] final in Berlin.
A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.
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The ball just misses the cup.
A container in which dice are held and shaken before being thrown.
Any of various sweetened alcoholic drinks.
Usage- In compounds
- usually
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cider cup
gin cup
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claret cup
The bridge tables were not set out in the garden-room, which entailed a scurry over damp gravel on a black, windy night, but in the little square parlour above her diningroom, where Withers, in the intervals of admitting her guests, was laying out plates of sandwiches and the chocolate cakes, reinforced when the interval for refreshments came with hot soup, whisky and syphons, and a jug of “cup” prepared according to an ancestral and economical recipe, which Miss Mapp had taken a great deal of trouble about. A single bottle of white wine, with suitable additions of ginger, nutmeg, herbs and soda-water, was the mother of a gallon of a drink that seemed aflame with fiery and probably spirituous ingredients. Guests were very careful how they partook of it, so stimulating it seemed.
A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia.
Usage- Canada
- US usage
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Players of contact sports are advised to wear a cup.
Boys, I thought I told you to let the store tell you what cup size you needed.
One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast.
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The cups are made of a particularly uncomfortable material.
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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"For cleavage to show up in these photos, a girl has to have C-cup breasts — at least that's what they told me once."
The symbol ∪ denoting union and similar operations.
A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.
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.
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Anything shaped like a cup.
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the cup of an acorn
The cowslip's golden cup no more I see.
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Even if the parts are thicknessed by machine, check for and plane out any cup with a bench plane.
A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
Usage- Historical
That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion of blessings and afflictions.
Usage- Figurative
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O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.
Verb
To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.
Usage- Transitive
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Cup your hands and I'll pour some rice into them.
To hold something in cupped hands.
Usage- Transitive
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He cupped the ball carefully in his hands.
To pour (a liquid, drink, etc.) into a cup.
Usage- Transitive
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We are cupping some new brands of coffee today.
To supply with cups of wine.
Usage- Obsolete
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Cup us, till the world go round.
To apply a cup or cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping.
Usage- Archaic
- Transitive
To make concave or in the form of a cup.
Usage- Transitive
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to cup the end of a screw
Noun
a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle
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he put the cup back in the saucer
the handle of the cup was missing
the quantity a cup will hold
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- Broader terms
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he drank a cup of coffee
he borrowed a cup of sugar
any cup-shaped concavity
- Broader terms
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bees filled the waxen cups with honey
he wore a jock strap with a metal cup
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the cup of her bra
a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces
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cup-shaped plant organ
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a punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl
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the hole (or metal container in the hole) on a golf green
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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
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the school kept the cups in a special glass case
Verb
form into the shape of a cup
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She cupped her hands
put into a cup
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cup the milk
treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin
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