cup

Noun
  1. 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. is a type of: containerful - the quantity that a container will hold
    same as: cupful
  3. is a type of: concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature - a shape that curves or bends inward
  4. 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. 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. 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. is a type of: hole - an opening deliberately made in or through something
  8. 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. is a type of: form, shape - give shape or form to
  2. is a type of: enclose, inclose, insert, introduce, put in, stick in - place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing
  3. 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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