cup

Noun
  1. A small open container usually used for drinking;
    Usually has a handle (synset 103152175)
    "he put the cup back in the saucer"; "the handle of the cup was missing"
    is a type 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
    subtypes:
    • 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
  2. The quantity a cup will hold (synset 113788873)
    "he drank a cup of coffee"; "he borrowed a cup of sugar"
    is a type of: containerful - the quantity that a container will hold
    same as: cupful
  3. Any cup-shaped concavity (synset 113927671)
    "bees filled the waxen cups with honey"; "he wore a jock strap with a metal cup"; "the cup of her bra"
    is a type of: concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature - a shape that curves or bends inward
  4. A United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces (synset 113640449)
    is a type of: united states liquid unit - a liquid unit officially adopted in the United States Customary System
    has: gill - a United States liquid unit equal to 4 fluid ounces
    is a part of: pint - a United States liquid unit equal to 16 fluid ounces; two pints equal one quart
  5. Cup-shaped plant organ (synset 112288358)
    is a type of: plant organ - a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus
    subtypes: acorn cup, cupule - cup-shaped structure of hardened bracts at the base of an acorn
  6. A punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl (synset 107947104)
    is a type of: punch - an iced mixed drink usually containing alcohol and prepared for multiple servings; normally served in a punch bowl
    subtypes:
    • 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
  7. The hole (or metal container in the hole) on a golf green (synset 103152796)
    "he swore as the ball rimmed the cup and rolled away"; "put the flag back in the cup"
    is a type of: hole - an opening deliberately made in or through something
  8. A large metal vessel with two handles that is awarded as a trophy to the winner of a competition (synset 103152567)
    "the school kept the cups is a special glass case"
    is a type of: prize, trophy - something given as a token of victory
    subtypes: davis cup - cup awarded for the annual international team tennis competition
    same as: loving cup
Verb
  1. Form into the shape of a cup (synset 200478759)
    "She cupped her hands"
    is a type of: form, shape - give shape or form to
  2. Put into a cup (synset 200189394)
    "cup the milk"
    is a type of: enclose, inclose, insert, introduce, put in, stick in - place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing
  3. Treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin (synset 200087042)
    referred to in: 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
    is a type of: care for, treat - provide treatment for
    same as: transfuse

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