cup
- noun
- /kʌp/
- Frantic sailors seized every bucket and cup, everything that could conceivably be used to scoop water.
- suction cup
- cup-like
- oviposition cup
Examples
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I took it with my right hand and formed a cup with my left hand.
Fiction book (1993) -
I know why there is honey in the cup of the flower.
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I love that cup of tea, so I'm going to do that.
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This kid left the yogurt in its cup in my sink.
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The red-haired woman crossed the room and returned with a cup of something warm and soothing.
Fiction book (1992) -
Esther and the helper ran in and out, taking away dirty cups and bringing clean ones.
Fiction book (1995) -
Sister Helen nodded and, taking the cup of tablets, knocked lightly on Sister Gertrude's door.
Fiction book (1994) -
Model 3310 is a single-cup version; dual-cup and pot/switch options are available.
Academic text (1995) -
The gardener admired the beautiful cup of the tulip blooming in spring.
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The little girl carefully filled her cup with lemonade at the picnic.
Synonyms
A hard cup-shaped base that holds and partly covers an acorn
A hard hollow base at the bottom of an acorn that partly holds the nut
A cuplike part at the base of a flower that holds small parts like petals and stamens
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 Deep
- Specialized
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cup for a hollow part comes from the same idea as the drinking cup: a small bowl or hollow. That's why any bowl-like or hollow part is called a 'cup'.