CUP
\kˈʌp], \kˈʌp], \k_ˈʌ_p]\
Definitions of CUP
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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"
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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"
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a punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl
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cup-shaped plant organ
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a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces
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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"
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treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin
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put into a cup; "cup the milk"
By Princeton University
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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"
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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"
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a punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl
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cup-shaped plant organ
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a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces
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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"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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The contents of such a vessel; a cupful.
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Repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry.
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That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.
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Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower.
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A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
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To supply with cups of wine.
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To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping.
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To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw.
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A cock or cup containing grease, to serve as a lubricator.
By Oddity Software
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A vessel used to contain liquid: a drinking-vessel: the liquid contained in a cup: that which we must receive or undergo: afflictions: blessings.
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To extract blood from the body by means of cupping-glasses from which the air has been exhausted:-pr.p. cupping; pa.p. cupped.
By Daniel Lyons
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A small drinking-vessel; anything shaped like a cup.
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To bleed by exhausted receivers placed over cuts in the skin.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To draw blood under an exhausted cup.
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To shape like or place in a cup.
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A small drinking vessel, or its contents; one's lot.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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A small vessel of a determinate size for receiving the blood during venesection. It generally contains about four ounces. A bleeding of two cups is, consequently, one of eight ounces.
By Robley Dunglison
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A small drinking vessel; the contents of such a vessel; any structure shaped like a drinking vessel.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] A small vessel used to drink out of;—the contents of such a vessel; a cupful;—that which is to be received or endured; portion; lot;—any thing formed like a cup;—a cupping-glass:—pl. Repeated potations; excessive drinking; revelry.
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