Definition of "cup"

cup

/kʌp/

noun
plural cups
1. A concave vessel for drinking from, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
  Quotations
  In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
  2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68
2. The contents of said vessel.
3. A customary unit of measure
  1. (US) A US unit of liquid measure equal to 8 fluid ounces (1⁄16 of a US gallon; 236.5882365 mL) or 240 mL.
  2. (Canada) A Canadian unit of measure equal to 8 imperial ounces (1⁄20 imperial gallon; 227.3 mL) or 250 mL.
  3. (UK, dated) A British unit of measure equal to 1⁄2 imperial pint (10 imperial ounces; 284 mL) or 300 mL.
  4. (Australia, New Zealand) A metric unit of measure equal to 250 mL.
4. A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
  Quotations
  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.
  1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
5. A contest for which a cup is awarded.
6. (soccer) The main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league.
  Quotations
  Until it was disbanded in 1999, the European Cup-Winners Cup was contested annually by the winners of Europe's national cups.
  2002, Rob Dimery, Peter Watts, Guinness world records, Gullane Children's Books
  Wallace had the unique distinction of being the only player ever to play in the English, Welsh and Scottish Cups in the same season.
  2011, Michael Grant, Rob Robertson, The Management: Scotland's Great Football Bosses, Birlinn
  One week earlier, they had lost 5-2 to Borussia Dortmund in the DFB-Pokal [the German cup] final in Berlin.
  2014, Martí Perarnau, Pep Confidential: Inside Pep Guardiola's First Season at Bayern Munich, Birlinn
7. (golf) A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.
8. (in combination) Any of various sweetened alcoholic drinks.
9. (US, Canada) A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia.
  Quotations
  Boys, I thought I told you to let the store tell you what cup size you needed.
  2000 March 27, Bill Amend, FoxTrot‎ (comic)
10. One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast.
  1. Prefixed with a letter, used as a measurement of bra or breast size.
    Quotations
    "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."
    2010, Tom Clancy, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Books 1-6, page 1149
11. (mathematics) The symbol ∪ denoting union and similar operations.
12. (tarot) A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.
13. (ultimate frisbee) A defensive style characterized by a three player near defense cupping the thrower; or those three players.
14. A flexible concave membrane used to temporarily attach a handle or hook to a flat surface by means of suction.
15. Anything shaped like a cup.
  Quotations
  The cowslip's golden cup no more I see.
  1745, William Shenstone, Elegy VIII
  Even if the parts are thicknessed by machine, check for and plane out any cup with a bench plane.
  2003, Garrett Hack, The Handplane Book, page 143
16. (medicine, historical) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
17. (figurative) That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion of blessings and afflictions.
  Quotations
  O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Matthew 26:39
verb
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.
2. (transitive) To hold something in cupped hands.
3. (transitive) To pour (a liquid, drink, etc.) into a cup.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To supply with cups of wine.
  Quotations
  Cup us, till the world go round.
  c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene vii]
5. (transitive, surgery, archaic) To apply a cup or cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping.
6. (transitive, engineering) To make concave or in the form of a cup.

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