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Webster 1913 Edition

Cup

Cup

(kŭp)
,
Noun.
[AS.
cuppe
, LL.
cuppa
cup; cf. L.
cupa
tub, cask; cf. also Gr.
κύπη
hut, Skr.
kūpa
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.
Shakespeare
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

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Cupped
(kŭpt)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Cupping
.]
1.
To supply with cups of wine.
[R.]
Cup
us, till the world go round.
Shakespeare
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
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Cup

CUP

,
Noun.
[L., a little cup.]
1.
A small vessel of capacity, used commonly to drink out of. It is usually made of metal; as a silver cup; a tin cup. But the name is also given to vessels of like shape used for other purposes. It is usually more deep than wide; but tea-cups and coffee-cups are often exceptions.
2.
The contents of a cup; the liquor contained in a cup, or that it may contain; as a cup of beer. See 1 Corinthians 11.
3.
In a scriptural sense, sufferings and afflictions; that which is to be received or endured.
O my father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. Matthew 26.
4.
Good received; blessings and favors.
My cup runneth over. Psalm 23.
Take the cup of salvation, that is, receive the blessings of deliverance and redemption with joy and thanksgiving.
5.
Any thing hollow like a cup; as the cup of an acorn. The bell of a flower, and a calyx is called a flower-cup.
6.
A glass cup or vessel used for drawing blood in scarification.
Cup and can, familiar companions; the can being the large vessel out of which the cup is filled, and thus the two being constantly associated.
Cups, in the plural, social entertainment in drinking; merry bout.
Thence from cups to civil broils.

CUP

,
Verb.
I.
1.
In surgery, to apply a cupping-glass to procure a discharge of blood from a scarified part of the body.
2.
To supply with cups.

Definition 2024

cup

cup

See also: CUP, ćup, and cúp

English

A cup of tea.

Noun

cup ‎(plural cups)

  1. A concave vessel for drinking from, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
    • 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
      […] a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: […] . In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
    Pour the tea into the cup.‎
  2. The contents of said vessel; a cupful.
    I drank two cups of water but still felt thirsty.
  3. A US unit of liquid measure equal to 8 fluid ounces, 1/16 of a US gallon, or 236.5882365 ml.
  4. A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
    The World Cup is awarded to the winner of a quadrennial football tournament.‎
  5. A contest for which a cup is awarded.
    The World Cup is the world's most widely watched sporting event.‎
  6. (association football) The main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league.
    • 2002, Rob Dimery, Peter Watts, Guinness world records, Gullane Children's Books (ISBN 9780851121475)
      Until it was disbanded in 1999, the European Cup-Winners Cup was contested annually by the winners of Europe's national cups.
    • 2011, Michael Grant, Rob Robertson, The Management: Scotland's Great Football Bosses, Birlinn (ISBN 9780857900845)
      Wallace had the unique distinction of being the only player ever to play in the English, Welsh and Scottish Cups in the same season.
    • 2014, Martí Perarnau, Pep Confidential: Inside Pep Guardiola's First Season at Bayern Munich, Birlinn (ISBN 9780857908179)
      One week earlier, they had lost 5-2 to Borussia Dortmund in the DFB-Pokal [the German cup] final in Berlin.
  7. (golf) A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.
    The ball just misses the cup.‎
  8. (US) A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia. (for UK usage see box)
    Players of contact sports are advised to wear a cup.‎
  9. One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast, used as a measurement of size.
    The cups are made of a particularly uncomfortable material.‎
  10. (mathematics) The symbol denoting union and similar operations (confer cap).
  11. A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.
  12. (ultimate frisbee) A defensive style characterized by a three player near defense cupping the thrower; or those three players.
  13. A flexible concave membrane used to temporarily attach a handle or hook to a flat surface by means of suction (suction cup).
  14. Anything shaped like a cup.
    the cup of an acorn
    • Shenstone
      The cowslip's golden cup no more I see.
  15. (medicine, historical) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
  16. That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.
    • Bible, Matthew xxvi. 39
      O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.

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Verb

cup ‎(third-person singular simple present cups, present participle cupping, simple past and past participle cupped)

  1. (transitive) To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.
    Cup your hands and I'll pour some rice into them.
  2. (transitive) To hold something in cupped hands.
    He cupped the ball carefully in his hands.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To supply with cups of wine.
    • Shakespeare
      Cup us, till the world go round.
  4. (transitive, surgery, archaic) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping.
  5. (transitive, engineering) To make concave or in the form of a cup.
    to cup the end of a ****

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Albanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *tˢupa, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁-po- (compare Sanskrit शोफ ‎(śópha, “swelling”)), from *ḱuh₁- ‎(“to swell up”).

Adjective

cup m ‎(feminine cupe)

  1. odd (not even)
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Variant of sup.

Noun

cup ?

  1. shoulder

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *capum, from Latin caput. Compare Italian capo, Romanian cap, Spanish cabo.

Noun

cup m

  1. head

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑp/
  • Hyphenation: cup

Noun

cup

  1. cup (contest)

Declension

Inflection of cup (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative cup cupit
genitive cupin cupien
partitive cupia cupeja
illative cupiin cupeihin
singular plural
nominative cup cupit
accusative nom. cup cupit
gen. cupin
genitive cupin cupien
partitive cupia cupeja
inessive cupissa cupeissa
elative cupista cupeista
illative cupiin cupeihin
adessive cupilla cupeilla
ablative cupilta cupeilta
allative cupille cupeille
essive cupina cupeina
translative cupiksi cupeiksi
instructive — cupein
abessive cupitta cupeitta
comitative — cupeineen

Lojban

Rafsi

cup

  1. rafsi of clupa.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English cup ‎(“trophy”)

Noun

cup m ‎(definite singular cupen, indefinite plural cuper, definite plural cupene)

  1. (sports) cup (trophy; the competition culminating in the winning of the trophy)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English cup ‎(“trophy”)

Noun

cup m ‎(definite singular cupen, indefinite plural cupar, definite plural cupane)

  1. (sports) cup (as above)

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References

Etymology

From Middle English cuppe, coppe, from Old English cuppe ‎(“cup”), from Late Latin cuppa, probably a form of Latin cūpa ‎(“tub”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- ‎(“a hollow”). Reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman cupe, from the same Latin source. Compare Saterland Kop ‎(“cup”), West Frisian kop, Dutch kop ‎(“cup”), German Low German Koppke, Köppke ‎(“cup”), German Kopf ‎(“head; top”), Danish kop, Swedish kopp.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: kŭp, IPA(key): /kʌp/
  • Rhymes: -ʌp

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