cup

Meanings

Plural: cups

Noun

• a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle
  • "he put the cup back in the saucer"
  • "the handle of the cup was missing"
• the quantity a cup will hold
  • "he drank a cup of coffee"
  • "he borrowed a cup of sugar"
• any cup-shaped concavity
  • "bees filled the waxen cups with honey"
  • "he wore a jock strap with a metal cup"
  • "the cup of her bra"
• a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces
• cup-shaped plant organ
• a punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl
• the hole (or metal container in the hole) on a golf green
  • "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
  • "the school kept the cups is a special glass case"
• A concave vessel for drinking, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
• The contents of said vessel.
• 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.
• 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.
• A customary unit of measure
• A British unit of measure equal to ¹⁄₂ imperial pint (10 imperial ounces; 284 mL) or 300 mL.
• A customary unit of measure
• A metric unit of measure equal to 250 mL.
• A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
• A contest for which a cup is awarded.
• The main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league.
• A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.
• A container in which dice are held and shaken before being thrown.
• Any of various sweetened alcoholic drinks.
• A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia.
• One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast.
• 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.
• 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.
• Anything shaped like a cup.
• 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.

Verb

• form into the shape of a cup
  • "She cupped her hands"
• put into a cup
  • "cup the milk"
• treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin
• To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.
• To hold something in cupped hands.
• To pour (a liquid, drink, etc.) into a cup.
• To supply with cups of wine.
• To apply a cup or cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping.
• To make concave or in the form of a cup.

Synonyms

box, cupful, loving cup, suction cup, transfuse