cup
see also: CUP, Cup
Etymology
CUP
Proper noun
Cup
Etymology
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see also: CUP, Cup
Etymology
From Middle English cuppe, coppe, from the merger of Old English cuppe and Old English copp.
The Middle English word was further reinforced by Anglo-Norman cupe and Old French cope, coupe, from Latin cuppa.
Pronunciation Nouncup (plural cups)
- A concave vessel for drinking, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
- The contents of said vessel.
- Synonyms: 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 (1⁄16 of a US gallon; 236.5882365 mL) or 240 mL.
- (Canada) A Canadian unit of measure equal to 8 imperial ounces (1⁄20 imperial gallon; 227.3 mL) or 250 mL.
- (UK, dated) A British unit of measure equal to 1⁄2 imperial pint (10 imperial ounces; 284 mL) or 300 mL.
- (AU, NZ) A metric unit of measure equal to 250 mL.
- A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC ↗:
- 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.
- 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.
- (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.
- Synonyms: box
- Players of contact sports are advised to wear a cup.
- One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast.
- The cups are made of a particularly uncomfortable material.
- Prefixed with a letter, used as a measurement of bra or breast size.
- (mathematics) The symbol \cup denoting union and similar operations.
- Coordinate term: cap
- (tarot) 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.
- Synonyms: suction cup
- Anything shaped like a cup.
- the cup of an acorn
- 1745, William Shenstone, Elegy VIII:
- The cowslip's golden cup no more I see.
- 2003, Garrett Hack, The Handplane Book, page 143:
- Even if the parts are thicknessed by machine, check for and plane out any cup with a bench plane.
- (medicine, historical) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
- (figurative) That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion of blessings and afflictions.
- French: tasse, coupe
- German: Tasse, Becher, Kelch
- Italian: tazza, coppa
- Portuguese: xícara, chávena (short cup with a handle, such as a coffee cup); copo (applies to plastic cups; not distinct from glasses)
- Russian: ча́шка
- Spanish: taza
- Italian: conchiglia
- Portuguese: coquilha
- French: cloche
- German: Becher
cup (cups, present participle cupping; simple 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 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene vii]:
- Cup us, till the world go round.
- (transitive, surgery, archaic) To apply a cup or 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)
CUP
Proper noun
- Initialism of Cambridge University Press
- Initialism of Committee of Union and Progress
Cup
Etymology
Capitalization of cup
Proper noun- (informal, sports) A particular trophy that is a cup; sometimes with the definite article "the".
cup (plural cups)
- (informal, sports) A win of a championship that is awarded a cup.
- (informal, sports) A win of an event comprising part of the championship, which is awarded a cup
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