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cup

[kuhp] noun, verb, cupped, cup⋅ping.
–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., esp. of precious metal, offered as a prize for a contest.
7. any of various beverages, as a mixture of wine and various ingredients: claret cup.
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.
a. the metal receptacle within the hole.
b. the hole itself.
16. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Crater.
17. cupping glass.
18. Metalworking. a cylindrical shell closed at one end, esp. 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).
–verb (used with object)
20. to take or place in, or as in, a cup: He cupped his ear with the palm of his hand.
21. to form into a cuplike shape: He cupped his hands.
22. to use a cupping glass on.
23. Metalworking. to form (tubing, containers, etc.) by punching hot strip or sheet metal and drawing it through a die. Compare deep-draw.
24. in one's cups, intoxicated; drunk.

Origin:
bef. 1000; ME, OE cuppe < L cuppa, var. of cūpa tub, cask


cuplike, adjective
cup   (kŭp)   
n.  
    1. A small open container, usually with a flat bottom and a handle, used for drinking.
    2. Such a container and its contents.
    3. A cuplike object.
    4. Biology A cuplike structure or organ.
  1. Abbr. c. A unit of capacity or volume equal to 16 tablespoons or 8 fluid ounces (237 milliliters). See Table at measurement.
  2. The bowl of a drinking vessel.
  3. The chalice or the wine used in the celebration of the Eucharist.
  4. A decorative cup-shaped vessel awarded as a prize or trophy.
  5. Sports A golf hole or the metal container inside a hole.
  6. Either of the two parts of a brassiere that fit over the breasts.
  7. An athletic supporter having a protective reinforcement of rigid plastic or metal.
  8. A sweetened, flavored, usually chilled beverage, especially one made with wine: claret cup.
  9. A dish served in a cup-shaped vessel: fruit cup.
    1. A cuplike object.
    2. Biology A cuplike structure or organ.
  10. A lot or portion to be suffered or enjoyed.
tr.v.   cupped, cup·ping, cups
  1. To place in or as in a cup.
  2. To shape like a cup: cup one's hand.
  3. To subject to the therapeutic procedure of cupping.

[Middle English cuppe, from Old English, from Late Latin cuppa, drinking vessel, perhaps variant of Latin cūpa, tub, cask.]

Cup

Cup\ (k[u^]p), n. [AS. cuppe, LL. cuppa cup; cf. L. cupa tub, cask; cf. also Gr. ky`ph hut, Skr. k[=u]pa pit, hollow, OSlav. kupa cup. Cf. Coop, Cupola, Cowl a water vessel, and Cob, Coif, Cop.]

1. A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and the like.

2. The contents of such a vessel; a cupful.

Give me a cup of sack, boy. --Shak.

3. pl. Repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry.

Thence from cups to civil broils. --Milton.

4. That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.

O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. --Matt. xxvi. 39.

5. Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower.

The cowslip's golden cup no more I see. --Shenstone.

6. (Med.) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.

Cup and ball, a familiar toy of children, having a cup on the top of a piece of wood to which, a ball is attached by a cord; the ball, being thrown up, is to be caught in the cup; bilboquet. --Milman.

Cup and can, familiar companions.

Dry cup, Wet cup (Med.), a cup used for dry or wet cupping. See under Cupping.

To be in one's cups, to be drunk.

Cup

Cup\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cupped (k[u^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Cupping.]

1. To supply with cups of wine. [R.]

Cup us, till the world go round. --Shak.

2. (Surg.) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping.

3. (Mech.) To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw.
Language Translation for : cup
Spanish: taza,
German: die Tasse,
Japanese: カップ

cup 
O.E. cuppe, from L.L. cuppa, from L. cupa "tub," from PIE *keup- "a hollow." The Ger. cognate Kopf now means exclusively "head" (cf. Fr. tête, from L. testa "potsherd"). Meaning "part of a bra that holds a breast" is from 1938. Cupcake is 1828, Amer.Eng. Cupboard (c.1325) was originally a board or table to place cups and plates on; sense extended 1530 to "a closet or cabinet for food, etc." [One's] cup of tea "what interests one" (1932), earlier used of persons (1908), the sense being "what is invigorating."

CUP

In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Cuban Peso.

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Also spelled: CUP


Main Entry: 2cup
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: cupped; cup·ping
transitive senses
: to treat by cupping cupintransitive senses
: to undergo or perform cupping

cup (kŭp)
n.

  1. A cup-shaped structure or organ.
  2. See cupping glass.
  3. A unit of capacity or volume equal to 16 tablespoons or 8 fluid ounces.
v. cupped, cup·ping, cups
To subject a person or body part to the therapeutic procedure of cupping.

Cup

a wine-cup (Gen. 40:11, 21), various forms of which are found on Assyrian and Egyptian monuments. All Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold (1 Kings 10: 21). The cups mentioned in the New Testament were made after Roman and Greek models, and were sometimes of gold (Rev. 17:4). The art of divining by means of a cup was practiced in Egypt (Gen. 44:2-17), and in the East generally. The "cup of salvation" (Ps. 116:13) is the cup of thanksgiving for the great salvation. The "cup of consolation" (Jer. 16:7) refers to the custom of friends sending viands and wine to console relatives in mourning (Prov. 31:6). In 1 Cor. 10:16, the "cup of blessing" is contrasted with the "cup of devils" (1 Cor. 10:21). The sacramental cup is the "cup of blessing," because of blessing pronounced over it (Matt. 26:27; Luke 22:17). The "portion of the cup" (Ps. 11:6; 16:5) denotes one's condition of life, prosperous or adverse. A "cup" is also a type of sensual allurement (Jer. 51:7; Prov. 23:31; Rev. 17:4). We read also of the "cup of astonishment," the "cup of trembling," and the "cup of God's wrath" (Ps. 75:8; Isa. 51:17; Jer. 25:15; Lam. 4:21; Ezek. 23:32; Rev. 16:19; comp. Matt. 26:39, 42; John 18:11). The cup is also the symbol of death (Matt. 16:28; Mark 9:1; Heb. 2:9).

cup

In addition to the idiom beginning with cup, also see in one's cups.

CUP
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