Definitions for cup

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cup cup

Spelling: [kuhp]

IPA: /kʌp/

Cup is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in cup (cpu).

Definitions for cup

noun

1. a small, open container made of china, glass, metal, etc., usually having a handle and used chiefly as a receptable from which to drink tea, soup, etc.
2. the bowllike part of a goblet or the like.
3. a cup with its contents.
4. the quantity contained in a cup.
5. a unit of capacity, equal to 8 fluid ounces (237 milliliters) or 16 tablespoons; half-pint.
6. an ornamental bowl, vase, etc., especially of precious metal, offered as a prize for a contest.
7. any of various beverages, as a mixture of wine and various ingredients:
8. the chalice used in the Eucharist.
9. the wine of the Eucharist.
10. something to be partaken of or endured; one's portion, as of joy or suffering.
11. cups, the drinking of intoxicating liquors.
12. any cuplike utensil, organ, part, cavity, etc.
13. either of the two forms that cover and usually support the breasts in a brassiere or other garment, as a bathing suit.
14. an athletic supporter reinforced with rigid plastic or metal for added protection.
15. Golf. the metal receptacle within the hole. the hole itself.
16. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Crater.
17. cupping glass.
18. Metalworking. a cylindrical shell closed at one end, especially one produced in the first stages of a deep-drawing operation.
19. Mathematics. the cuplike symbol ∪, used to indicate the union of two sets. Compare union (def 10a).

Idioms

1. in one's cups, intoxicated; drunk.

verb (used with object)

1. to take or place in, or as in, a cup:
2. to form into a cuplike shape:
3. to use a cupping glass on.
4. Metalworking. to form (tubing, containers, etc.) by punching hot strip or sheet metal and drawing it through a die. Compare deep-draw.

Origin of cup

before 1000; Middle English, Old English cuppe Latin cuppa, variant of cūpa tub, cask

Examples for cup

Our destiny offers, not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity.

His name was cup and he too had inherited his land from a hundred other cups who had gone before.

"Another cup of coffee, Mrs. Davis," he said, passing his cup across the table.

Finally, he says, “Would you like a cup of tea or something?”

He raised his cup to his lips, took a sip, and set it down again.

Preheat the oven to 450°F. Soak the cranberries in ¾ cup cranberry juice for 15 minutes.

The next day, about the same time, he says, again, “Would you like a cup of tea or something?”

Her mother had brought her a piece of seed-cake and a cup of milk with the cream on it.

By two-thirty on the first afternoon at his house, I long for a cup of coffee but feel awkward about asking.

Take the cup away from Russia now, and we will have the time for countries to bid afresh for 2018.