CUP (cupped, cupping)

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Irregular inflected forms: cupped    , cupping   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does cup mean? 

• CUP (noun)
  The noun CUP has 8 senses:

1. a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle

2. the quantity a cup will hold

3. any cup-shaped concavity

4. a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces

5. cup-shaped plant organ

6. a punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl

7. the hole (or metal container in the hole) on a golf green

8. a large metal vessel with two handles that is awarded as a trophy to the winner of a competition

  Familiarity information: CUP used as a noun is common.

• CUP (verb)
  The verb CUP has 3 senses:

1. form into the shape of a cup

2. put into a cup

3. treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin

  Familiarity information: CUP used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

the handle of the cup was missing

Hypernyms ("cup" is a kind of...):

container (any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another))

crockery; dishware (tableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cup"):

beaker (a cup (usually without a handle))

chalice; goblet (a bowl-shaped drinking vessel; especially the Eucharistic cup)

coffee cup (a cup from which coffee is drunk)

Dixie cup; paper cup (a disposable cup made of paper; for holding drinks)

grace cup (cup to be passed around for the final toast after a meal)

cylix; kylix (a shallow drinking cup with two handles; used in ancient Greece)

moustache cup; mustache cup (a drinking cup with a bar inside the rim to keep a man's mustache out of the drink)

scyphus (an ancient Greek drinking cup; two handles and footed base)

teacup (a cup from which tea is drunk)

Derivation:

cup (put into a cup)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quantity a cup will hold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

cup; cupful

Context example:

he borrowed a cup of sugar

Hypernyms ("cup" is a kind of...):

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)

Derivation:

cup (put into a cup)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Any cup-shaped concavity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Context example:

the cup of her bra

Hypernyms ("cup" is a kind of...):

concave shape; concavity; incurvation; incurvature (a shape that curves or bends inward)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("cup" is a kind of...):

United States liquid unit (a liquid unit officially adopted in the United States Customary System)

Meronyms (parts of "cup"):

gill (a United States liquid unit equal to 4 fluid ounces)

Holonyms ("cup" is a part of...):

pint (a United States liquid unit equal to 16 fluid ounces; two pints equal one quart)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Cup-shaped plant organ

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cup" is a kind of...):

plant organ (a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cup"):

acorn cup; cupule (cup-shaped structure of hardened bracts at the base of an acorn)

Sense 6

Meaning:

A punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("cup" is a kind of...):

punch (an iced mixed drink usually containing alcohol and prepared for multiple servings; normally served in a punch bowl)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cup"):

champagne cup (a punch containing a sparkling wine)

claret cup (a punch made of claret and brandy with lemon juice and sugar and sometimes sherry or curacao and fresh fruit)

Sense 7

Meaning:

The hole (or metal container in the hole) on a golf green

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

put the flag back in the cup

Hypernyms ("cup" is a kind of...):

hole (an opening deliberately made in or through something)

Sense 8

Meaning:

A large metal vessel with two handles that is awarded as a trophy to the winner of a competition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cup; loving cup

Context example:

the school kept the cups is a special glass case

Hypernyms ("cup" is a kind of...):

prize; trophy (something given as a token of victory)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cup"):

Davis Cup (cup awarded for the annual international team tennis competition)

• CUP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they cup    ... he / she / it cups   
Past simple: cupped   
Past participle: cupped   
-ing form: cupping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Form into the shape of a cup

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

She cupped her hands

Hypernyms (to "cup" is one way to...):

form; shape (give shape or form to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Put into a cup

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

cup the milk

Hypernyms (to "cup" is one way to...):

enclose; inclose; insert; introduce; put in; stick in (place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

cup (a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle)

cup (the quantity a cup will hold)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

cup; transfuse

Hypernyms (to "cup" is one way to...):

care for; treat (provide treatment for)

Domain category:

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

cupping (a treatment in which evacuated cups are applied to the skin to draw blood through the surface)

 Context examples 

For example, you might buy a hard drive that is too small for your needs, drop your new product on a marble floor, or have a cup of tea spill on the computer.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

However, on the third night the soldier carried away one of the golden cups as a token of where he had been.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

To this hour they dare not presume to touch my bread, or drink out of the same cup, neither was I ever able to let one of them take me by the hand.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

This drop is similar to what is seen in people after drinking a cup of coffee.

(Pathogenic tau and cognitive impairment are precipitated by a high-salt diet, National Institutes of Health)

One participant regained the ability to pick up and drink from a cup.

(Spinal cord stimulation helps paralyzed people move hands, NIH)

This association was even stronger for those who drank two to three cups a day — 18 percent reduced chance of death.

(Drink Coffee for a Longer Life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A cog must have slipped or an oil-cup run dry, for the postman brought him one morning a short, thin envelope.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“What do you say to a cup of coffee? hot coffee? piping hot?”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“I have ordered a carriage,” said Lestrade as we sat over a cup of tea.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Suddenly she sat up, and, as she opened her eyes, said sweetly:—"Would none of you like a cup of tea? You must all be so tired!"

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)