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Definition of Cup

Cup A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and the like. The contents of such a vessel; a cupful. Repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry. That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion. Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower. A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping. To supply with cups of wine. To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping. To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw. A cock or cup containing grease, to serve as a lubricator. Related Definitions: Acorn, Allotted, An, And, Anything, Apparatus, Apply, As, Be, Cock, Coffee, Commonly, Concave, Containing, Contents, Cup, Cupful, Cupping, Drink, Drinking, End, Especially, Excessive, Flower, Form, From, Glass, Grease, Handle, In, Indulgence, Instrument, Intoxicating, Is, Like, Lubricator, Make, Modern, Of, One, Operation, Or, Other, Porcelain, Portion, Pottery, Produce, Received, Repeated, Revelry, Saucer, Screw, See, Serve, Shaped, Silver, Small, Social, Subject, Such, Supply, Tea, That, The, Times, Tin, To, Used, Vacuum, Vessel, Which, Wine, With

Cup Quotations You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. C. S. Lewis It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it. Sachin Tendulkar I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot. Kobe Bryant I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup. Eddie Izzard The cup that went down under has now come up again. Sue Simmons

Cup Translations cup in Afrikaans is koppie cup in Danish is kop cup in Dutch is kopje, kop cup in Finnish is kuppi cup in French is tasse cup in German is Pokal/Tasse, Tasse, Becher, Tasse cup in Italian is calice, tazza cup in Norwegian is kopp cup in Spanish is taza, caliz

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