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CUP

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: cupped    , cupping   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle

Example:

the handle of the cup was missing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cup" is a kind of...):

container (any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another))

crockery; dishware (tableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cup"):

beaker (a cup (usually without a handle))

chalice; goblet (a bowl-shaped drinking vessel; especially the Eucharistic cup)

coffee cup (a cup from which coffee is drunk)

Dixie cup; paper cup (a disposable cup made of paper; for holding drinks)

grace cup (cup to be passed around for the final toast after a meal)

cylix; kylix (a shallow drinking cup with two handles; used in ancient Greece)

moustache cup; mustache cup (a drinking cup with a bar inside the rim to keep a man's mustache out of the drink)

scyphus (an ancient Greek drinking cup; two handles and footed base)

teacup (a cup from which tea is drunk)

Derivation:

cup (put into a cup)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A large metal vessel with two handles that is awarded as a trophy to the winner of a competition

Example:

the school kept the cups is a special glass case

Synonyms:

cup; loving cup

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cup" is a kind of...):

prize; trophy (something given as a token of victory)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cup"):

Davis Cup (cup awarded for the annual international team tennis competition)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The hole (or metal container in the hole) on a golf green

Example:

put the flag back in the cup

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cup" is a kind of...):

hole (an opening deliberately made in or through something)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("cup" is a kind of...):

punch (an iced mixed drink usually containing alcohol and prepared for multiple servings; normally served in a punch bowl)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cup"):

champagne cup (a punch containing a sparkling wine)

claret cup (a punch made of claret and brandy with lemon juice and sugar and sometimes sherry or curacao and fresh fruit)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Cup-shaped plant organ

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cup" is a kind of...):

plant organ (a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cup"):

acorn cup; cupule (cup-shaped structure of hardened bracts at the base of an acorn)

Sense 6

Meaning:

A United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("cup" is a kind of...):

United States liquid unit (a liquid unit officially adopted in the United States Customary System)

Meronyms (parts of "cup"):

gill (a United States liquid unit equal to 4 fluid ounces)

Holonyms ("cup" is a part of...):

pint (a United States liquid unit equal to 16 fluid ounces; two pints equal one quart)

Sense 7

Meaning:

The quantity a cup will hold

Example:

he borrowed a cup of sugar

Synonyms:

cup; cupful

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("cup" is a kind of...):

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)

Derivation:

cup (put into a cup)

Sense 8

Meaning:

Any cup-shaped concavity

Example:

the cup of her bra

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("cup" is a kind of...):

concave shape; concavity; incurvation; incurvature (a shape that curves or bends inward)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin

Synonyms:

cup; transfuse

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "cup" is one way to...):

care for; treat (provide treatment for)

Domain category:

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

cupping (a treatment in which evacuated cups are applied to the skin to draw blood through the surface)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Put into a cup

Example:

cup the milk

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "cup" is one way to...):

enclose; inclose; insert; introduce; put in; stick in (place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

cup (a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle)

cup (the quantity a cup will hold)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Form into the shape of a cup

Example:

She cupped her hands

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "cup" is one way to...):

form; shape (give shape or form to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

A cup of coffee would clear my brain.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I’ll light my spirit lamp, and give you a cup of coffee before we start.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For most people, the amount of caffeine in two to four cups of coffee a day is not harmful.

(Caffeine, Food and Drug Administration)

A dosing unit equal to the amount of active ingredient(s) contained in a cup.

(Cup Dosing Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

By my troth! master Ford, your friend here is in need of a cup of wine, for he hath drunk deeply of Garonne water.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You can think that we did justice to all the good things, and Miss Hinton would ever keep pressing us to pass our cup and to fill our plate.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We carried her upstairs, laid her on the sofa, and a couple of cups of the strongest coffee soon cleared her brain from the mists of the drug.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Functional Activities Questionnaire (FAQ) Heating water, making a cup of coffee, turning off stove after use.

(FAQ - Heat water, Make Coffee, Turn Off Stove, NCI Thesaurus)

Functional Activities Questionnaire-NACC Version (FAQ-NACC Version) Heating water, making a cup of coffee, turning off stove after use.

(FAQ-NACC Version - Heat water, Make Coffee, Turn Off Stove, NCI Thesaurus)

Human Eye Development involves bilateral outpouchings of optic vesicles, from the neural tube, that each form optic cups.

(Eye Development, NCI Thesaurus)