cup
- noun
- /kʌp/
- US
- I measured out a cup of flour for the cake recipe.
- cup of water
- cup of cooked rice
- cup of milk
And they have, you know, a cup of warm barley gruel.
- And they have, you know, a cup of warm barley gruel.
- It's just one scoop and a cup of water every day.
- Now we do half a cup of vegetable oil.
- What is with these two, two cups plus tablespoons?
- I'm going to do about a cup of the bicarb today.
- Like it's work to eat a cup of raw garbanzo beans, right?
Examples
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* Drink a minimum of 8 cups of water or non-caffeinated fluids each day.
Academic text (2012) -
Stir cornmeal into the remaining cup of cold milk and add 1 cup of cold water.
Academic text (1993) -
Do you want me to make you another cup of tea?
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Could we get a cup of coffee in here, please?
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Come on, have a cup of coffee.
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Now you had better go home, have a hot cup of tea, and go to bed.
Fiction book (1990) -
Then I match that with half a cup of milk.
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I need a cup of that house paint you call coffee.
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How much for two cups?
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Let's go grab a cup of cappuccino.
Synonyms
The amount that fills a cup used for measuring
Idioms
Compounds
An international soccer tournament held every four years where national teams play to win the world title
- US
A small round cup of paper, foil, or silicone that holds and shapes muffins while they bake
- Archaic
A small bowl made from bone ash used to separate precious metals during testing
- Specialized
A small brown mushroom that looks like a cup and grows on dead wood in damp places
- UK
A very poisonous white mushroom with a cup-shaped base and white gills that can kill if eaten
- Specialized
An electric machine with a cup-shaped metal part that turns around a fixed magnet inside
- Specialized
A small bright red mushroom shaped like a cup that grows on the forest floor
- Specialized
A small plant that comes back every year with two opposite leaves and a stem of white flowers
- Specialized
A cuplike part at the base of a flower that holds small parts like petals and stamens
- Specialized
A slender plant with shiny brown stalks and divided leaves with small brown dots along the edges
- Archaic
A cup with a small bar inside the rim that keeps a man's mustache out of the drink
- US
A plant from Mexico with bright yellow cup-shaped flowers and blue-grey divided leaves
- US
A plant from western North America with one or two white star-shaped flowers on short leafless stems
- Specialized
A two-layer cup in a developing embryo that becomes the retina's dark and light-sensing layers
How Much
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cup as a unit of measure comes from using a small drinking cup as a standard, so recipes use 'a cup' to mean the amount that fits in that little container.