Pronunciation Noun
cup (plural cups)
- A concave vessel for drinking from, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
- Pour the tea into the cup.
- The contents of said vessel; a cupful.
- I drank two cups of water but still felt thirsty.
- A customary unit of measure
- (US) A US unit of liquid measure equal to 8 fluid ounces (frac 1 of a US gallon; 236.5882365 mL) or 240 mL.
- (Canada) A Canadian unit of measure equal to 8 imperial ounces (frac 1 imperial gallon; 227.3 mL) or 250 mL.
- (UK, dated) A British unit of measure equal to frac 1 imperial pints (10 imperial ounces; 284 mL) or 300 mL.
- A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
- The World Cup is awarded to the winner of a quadrennial football tournament.
- A contest for which a cup is awarded.
- The World Cup is the world's most widely watched sporting event.
- (association football) The main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league.
- 2002, Rob Dimery, Peter Watts, Guinness world records, Gullane Children's Books ISBN 9780851121475
- Until it was disbanded in 1999, the European Cup-Winners Cup was contested annually by the winners of Europe's national cups.
- 2011, Michael Grant, Rob Robertson, The Management: Scotland's Great Football Bosses, Birlinn ISBN 9780857900845
- Wallace had the unique distinction of being the only player ever to play in the English, Welsh and Scottish Cups in the same season.
- 2014, Martí Perarnau, Pep Confidential: Inside Pep Guardiola's First Season at Bayern Munich, Birlinn ISBN 9780857908179
- One week earlier, they had lost 5-2 to Borussia Dortmund in the DFB-Pokal [the German cup] final in Berlin.
- 2002, Rob Dimery, Peter Watts, Guinness world records, Gullane Children's Books ISBN 9780851121475
- (golf) A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.
- The ball just misses the cup.
- (in combination) Any of various sweetened alcoholic drinks.
- cider cup; gin cup; claret cup
- (US, Canada) 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 \cup 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
- The cowslip's golden cup no more I see.
- (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 of blessings and afflictions.
- Bible, Matthew 26:39
- O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.
- Bible, Matthew 26:39
- French: tasse, coupe
- German: Tasse, Becher, Kelch
- Italian: tazza, coppa
- Portuguese: xícara, taça, chávena, caneca
- Russian: ча́шка
- Spanish: taza, copa
- French: cloche
cup (cups, present participle cupping; past and past participle cupped)
- (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) To pour (a liquid, drink, etc.) into a cup.
- We are cupping some new brands of coffee today.
- (transitive, obsolete) To supply with cups of wine.
- c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene vii]:
- Cup us, till the world go round.
- (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
- German: (cup a hand and hold the opening upward) die Hand aufhalten; otherwise only the noun phrase hohle Hand
- German: in der hohle Hand (but only used with very small things or liquids)
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