Pronunciations (2)
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/sʌp/
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/sup/
Pronunciation notes
- abbreviation
Verb
To sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon.
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There I'll sup / Balm and nectar in my cup.
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We stood upon the forehead of the hills, / And lifted up our hearts in prayer; / And as we halted, reverent, / Meseemed that Nature o’er us bent, / That she did bid us sup / From bread she gave and from her cup.
And as she supped her tea she smiled discreetly at him over the brim.
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On market days the farmers would come in before going home - Tysons and Lindsays and Birketts and Longmires and Boows and Dawsons - and their dogs would lie in heaps on the flags while they themselves supped Gerald's ale.
Noun
A sip; a small amount, of food or drink, water or rain.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
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Not a sup will I swallow, nor a bit will I bite, till Burd Ellen is set free.
Is it stoppin' there you'd be till every sup of the say's dhrained out on us to beyant the King Pharaoh's Islands?
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“Then, who,” the sick man meekly said, / “Shall heal the sick and hide the dead?— / “Snatch the despairer’s poisoned cup; / Clothe shame, and give the outcast sup?— / “Lighten, if only by a hair, / The load of human pain and care?”
We’re sisters in a sort and I’ll take Louie home with me and give her sup and shelter.
... an' we'll bathe them eyes of yours with a sup of rain water, the way when you go indoors ne'er a one will see there's been a ha'porth the matter.
A long, long sup of beer flowed gratefully down his gullet.
The hands touch B upon the head, give him sup from a cup and wipe his brow with a cloth, and finally embrace him as he slumps back down upon his desk.
'Wouldn't the fields be glad of a sup of rain.' 'Won't we have the rain for long enough.'
Verb
To eat supper.
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...I propose we should have up the cold pie, and let him sup.
I pray you, be seated and sup how you please. You will, I trust, excuse me that I do not join you; but I have dined already, and I do not sup.
Interjection
what's up (either as a greeting or actual question)
Usage- Slang
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— Sup? — Not much.
Adjective
Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of an up quark.
Usage- not-comparable
- Antonyms
Noun
Superintendent.
Usage- Informal
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They had put in the stretch-out and they were laying people off and there was talk of a union. "Let's have a union." "Mr. Shaw won't stand for it. The sup won't stand for it."
Cpl. Perez, the radio sup said, "Everything checks out OK, Sarge. We're up and working."
But here comes the deputy vehicle, cruising right up to the shelter on the bike path. The sup is a retired county sheriff's deputy.
Noun
Supremum, upper limit.
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Values for the sup W statistic in excess of the 5 percent critical value (2.75 for booms and 2.77 for slumps) indicate rejection of the null hypothesis of no change in the dureation of booms and slumps in real commodity prices.
For a wide class of connected open sets U, not necessarily simply connected, one proves the existence of a harmonic function on U having given boundary value (satisfying suitable integrability conditions) by taking the sup of the subharmonic functions having this boundary value.
Noun
Supplement.
Usage- Colloquial
Noun
A supervision.
- Related words
Noun
a small amount of liquid food
- Synonyms
- Examples
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a sup of ale
Verb
take solid or liquid food into the mouth a little at a time either by drinking or by eating with a spoon