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| 1. subst. A concave vessel for drinking from, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle. | |
| Pour the tea into the cup. | |
| 2. subst. The contents of said vessel; a cupful. | |
| I drank two cups of water but still felt thirsty. | |
| 3. subst. A customary unit of measure | |
| 4. subst. (US) A US unit of liquid measure equal to 8 fluid ounces (1/16 of a US gallon; 236.5882365 mL) or 240 mL. | |
| 5. subst. (Canada) A Canadian unit of measure equal to 8 imperial ounces (1/20 imperial gallon; 227.3 mL) or 250 mL. | |
| 6. subst. (dated) A British unit of measure equal to 0.5 imperial pints (10 imperial ounces; 284 mL) or 300mL. | |
| 7. subst. A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup. | |
| The World Cup is awarded to the winner of a quadrennial football tournament. | |
| 8. subst. A contest for which a cup is awarded. | |
| The World Cup is the world's most widely watched sporting event. | |
| 9. subst. (association football) The main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league. | |
| 10. subst. (golf) A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole. | |
| The ball just misses the cup. | |
| 11. subst. (in combination) Any of various sweetened alcoholic drinks. | |
| cider cup; gin cup; claret cup | |
| 12. subst. (US, Canada) A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia. (for UK usage see box) | |
| Players of contact sports are advised to wear a cup. | |
| 13. subst. One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast, used as a measurement of size. | |
| The cups are made of a particularly uncomfortable material. | |
| 14. subst. (mathematics) The symbol\cup denoting union and similar operations (confer cap). | |
| 15. subst. A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit. | |
| 16. subst. (ultimate frisbee) A defensive style characterized by a three player near defense cupping the thrower; or those three players. | |
| 17. subst. A flexible concave membrane used to temporarily attach a handle or hook to a flat surface by means of suction (suction cup). | |
| 18. subst. Anything shaped like a cup. | |
| the cup of an acorn | |
| 19. subst. (medicine, historical) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping. | |
| 20. subst. That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion. | |
| 21. v. To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands. | |
| Cup your hands and I'll pour some rice into them. | |
| 22. v. To hold something in cupped hands. | |
| He cupped the ball carefully in his hands. | |
| 23. v. (transitive, obsolete) To supply with cups of wine. | |
| 24. v. (transitive, surgery, archaic) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. | |
| 25. v. (transitive, engineering) To make concave or in the form of a cup. | |
| to cup the end of a screw | |
