cup
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Inherited from Middle English cuppe, coppe, from the merger of Old English cuppe (“cup”) and Old English copp (“cup, vessel”).
Old English cuppe is a borrowing from Late Latin cuppa, itself of obscure origin, but probably from earlier Latin cūpa (“tub, cask”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”). Old English copp, however, is from Proto-West Germanic *kopp (“round object, bowl, vessel, knoll, summit, crown of the head”), from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve, arch”) (whence also obsolete English cop (“top, summit, crown of the head”), German Kopf (“top, head”)).
The Middle English word was further reinforced by Anglo-Norman cupe and Old French cope, coupe, from Latin cuppa. Compare also Saterland Frisian Kop (“cup”), West Frisian kop (“cup”), Dutch kop (“cup”), German Low German Koppke, Köppke (“cup”), Danish kop (“cup”), Swedish kopp (“cup”). Doublet of coupe, hive, and keeve.
Inflected forms:
form: cups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cups
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cupping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cupped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cupped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A concave vessel for drinking, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
pos: noun
examples: Pour the tea into the cup.
gloss: The contents of said vessel.
pos: noun
examples: I drank two cups of water but still felt thirsty.
In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
gloss: A customary unit of measure
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A customary unit of measure
pos: noun
tags: Canada
gloss: A customary unit of measure
pos: noun
tags: UK
dated
gloss: A customary unit of measure
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
gloss: A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
pos: noun
examples: The World Cup is awarded to the winner of a quadrennial football tournament.
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.
gloss: A contest for which a cup is awarded.
pos: noun
examples: The World Cup is the world's most widely watched sporting event.
gloss: The main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league.
pos: noun
examples: Until it was disbanded in 1999, the European Cup-Winners Cup was contested annually by the winners of Europe's national cups.
Wallace had the unique distinction of being the only player ever to play in the English, Welsh and Scottish Cups in the same season.
One week earlier, they had lost 5-2 to Borussia Dortmund in the DFB-Pokal [the German cup] final in Berlin.
gloss: A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.
pos: noun
examples: The ball just misses the cup.
gloss: A container in which dice are held and shaken before being thrown.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various sweetened alcoholic drinks.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
examples: cider cup
gin cup
claret cup
gloss: A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: Players of contact sports are advised to wear a cup.
Boys, I thought I told you to let the store tell you what cup size you needed.
gloss: One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast.
pos: noun
examples: The cups are made of a particularly uncomfortable material.
gloss: One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast.
pos: noun
examples: "For cleavage to show up in these photos, a girl has to have C-cup breasts — at least that's what they told me once."
gloss: The symbol ∪ denoting union and similar operations.
pos: noun
gloss: A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.
pos: noun
gloss: A defensive style characterized by a three player near defense cupping the thrower; or those three players.
pos: noun
gloss: A flexible concave membrane used to temporarily attach a handle or hook to a flat surface by means of suction.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything shaped like a cup.
pos: noun
examples: the cup of an acorn
The cowslip's golden cup no more I see.
Even if the parts are thicknessed by machine, check for and plane out any cup with a bench plane.
gloss: A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion of blessings and afflictions.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.
gloss: To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Cup your hands and I'll pour some rice into them.
gloss: To hold something in cupped hands.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He cupped the ball carefully in his hands.
gloss: To pour (a liquid, drink, etc.) into a cup.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We are cupping some new brands of coffee today.
gloss: To supply with cups of wine.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Cup us, till the world go round.
gloss: To apply a cup or cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
gloss: To make concave or in the form of a cup.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to cup the end of a screw
Derived words: acorn cup
A cup
A-cup
audiocup
band cup
breakfastcup
builder's cup
builders' cup
buttercup
cage cup
canteen cup
caudle cup
chirping cup
chop cup
claretcup
coffee cup
coffee-cup
common brown cup
creamcups
cup-and-ball
cup-and-saucer plant
cup bearer
cupbearer
cup-bearer
cupbearing
cupboard
cupcake
cup check
cup cheese
cup custard
cup discharger
cupel
Cup Final
cup final
cupflower
cup fungus
cup gall
cuphead
cup holder
cupholder
cupless
cuplet
cup lichen
cuplike
cupmaker
cupmaking
cupman
cupmate
cup moss
cup moth
cup noodles
cup of coffee
cup of joe
cup of tea
cup o' joe
cup orchid
cuppa
cupper
Cuppers
cup plant
cuppy
cup-rose
cupseed
cupset
cup shake
cup-shaped
cup-shot
cup-shotten
cup size
cupsona
cup stacking
cupster
cupstone
cupsworth
cup that cheers
cup tie
cup-tied
cup-tosser
cup towel
cupule
cupward
cupware
cupwing
cupwise
death cup
demicup
diva cup
Dixie cup
dixie cup
drink from the furry cup
drinking-cup
earcup
egg cup
eggcup
elf-cup
eyecup
eye-cup
Faraday cup
flip cup
fringecup
fruit cup
fuddling cup
go cup
go down like a cup of cold sick
go down like a cup of sick
goldcup
golden cup
golden-cup oak
grace-cup
Grey Cup
hunter's cup
huntsman's cup
keep cup
kingcup
leafcup
league cup
let this cup pass from me
Little-Master cup
loving cup
macrocup
Magdalen cup
measuring cup
menstrual cup
mess cup
minicup
mini cup
mini-cup
monkey-cup
monkey cup
mooncup
mossycup
moustache cup
muffin cup
mustache cup
Neptune's cup
oilcup
optic cup
paper cup
parabolic cup
parting-cup
PB cup
peanut butter cup
peanut-butter cup
Pimm's cup
pimp cup
pixie cup
pup cup
Pythagoras cup
Pythagorean cup
queen cup
queen's cup
shaving-cup
shooter cup
shot cup
siphon cup
sippy cup
skullcup
sneak-cup
someone's cup of tea
spit-cup
splash cup
standing cup
stirrup cup
suncup
supercup
super cup
tailcup
Tantalus cup
tea-cup
tea cup
teacup
that and a dollar will get you a cup of coffee
that and a nickel will buy you a cup of coffee
that and twenty-five cents will get you a cup of coffee
there's many a slip between the cup and the lip
there's many a slip twixt cup and lip
there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip
tip cup
whitecup
winecup
wine-cup
wine cup
world cup
you can't pour from an empty cup
recup
uncup
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: koppie
lang: Arabic
word: كُوب
roman: kūb
lang: Bulgarian
word: чаша
roman: čaša
lang: Catalan
word: tassa
lang: Faroese
word: koppur
lang: Finnish
word: kuppi
lang: French
word: tasse
lang: West-Frisian
word: kopke
lang: German
word: Tasse
lang: Greek
word: κούπα
roman: koúpa
lang: Ancient Greek
word: κοτύλη
roman: kotúlē
lang: Hebrew
word: כּוֹס
roman: kos
lang: Hindi
word: पैमाना
roman: paimānā
lang: Irish
word: cupán
lang: Japanese
word: カップ
roman: kappu
lang: Korean
word: 컵
roman: keop
lang: Korean
word: 잔
roman: jan
lang: Latin
word: hēmīna
lang: Iranian Persian
word: پِیْمانِه
roman: peymâne
lang: Portuguese
word: xícara
lang: Portuguese
word: chávena
lang: Spanish
word: taza
lang: Swedish
word: kaffekopp
lang: Swedish
word: kkp
lang: Turkish
word: tas
lang: Urdu
word: پَیمانَہ
roman: paimāna
lang: Vietnamese
word: chén
lang: Yiddish
word: טעפּל
roman: tepl
lang: Finnish
word: cup-puolustus