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cup

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1. cup - Noun

2. cup - Verb

3. Cup - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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he put the cup back in the saucer Source: Internet

the handle of the cup was missing Source: Internet

the school kept the cups is a special glass case Source: Internet

he swore as the ball rimmed the cup and rolled away Source: Internet

put the flag back in the cup Source: Internet

he drank a cup of coffee Source: Internet

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