cup
pronunciation
How to pronounce cup in British English:
UK [kʌp]
How to pronounce cup in American English:
US [kʌp]
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- Noun:
- a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces
- the quantity a cup will hold
- a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle
- a large metal vessel with two handles that is awarded as a trophy to the winner of a competition
- any cup-shaped concavity
- the hole (or metal container in the hole) on a golf green
- a punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl
- cup-shaped plant organ
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- Verb:
- form into the shape of a cup
- put into a cup
- treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin
Word Origin
- cup
- cup: [OE] Cup is a member of a large Indo- European family of words denoting broadly ‘round container’ that go back ultimately to the bases *kaup- (source of English head) and *keup-. This produced Greek kúpellon ‘drinking vessel’, English hive, and Latin cūpa ‘barrel’, source of English coop [13] (via Middle Dutch kūpe) and cooper ‘barrel-maker’ [14] (from a derivative of Middle Dutch kūpe). A postclassical by-form of cūpa was cuppa, from which came German kopf ‘head’ and English cup.=> coop, cupola
- cup (n.)
- Old English cuppe, from Late Latin cuppa "cup" (source of Italian coppa, Spanish copa, Old French coupe "cup"), from Latin cupa "tub, cask, tun, barrel," from PIE *keup- "a hollow" (cognates: Sanskrit kupah "hollow, pit, cave," Greek kype "a kind of ship," Old Church Slavonic kupu, Lithuanian kaupas). The Late Latin word was borrowed throughout Germanic: Old Frisian kopp "cup, head," Middle Low German kopp "cup," Middle Dutch coppe, Dutch kopje "cup, head." German cognate Kopf now means exclusively "head" (compare French tête, from Latin testa "potsherd"). Meaning "part of a bra that holds a breast" is from 1938. [One's] cup of tea "what interests one" (1932), earlier used of persons (1908), the sense being "what is invigorating."
- cup (v.)
- late 14c., "to draw blood by cupping," from cup (n.). Meaning "to form a cup" is from 1830. Related: Cupped; cupping.
Example
- 1. Oh , the english premier league is far more important than the world cup .
- 2. It 's not right now , but I 'd love to be in rio for the 2014 world cup .
- 3. You can 't order an espresso in a to-go cup ( just drink it ) .
- 4. Brazil will host soccer 's world cup in 2014 and the summer olympic games in 2016 .
- 5. Brazil hosts the world cup in 2014 .