cup
Meanings
- A concave vessel for drinking, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
- The contents of said vessel.
- A customary unit of measure
- A US unit of liquid measure equal to 8 fluid ounces (¹⁄₁₆ of a US gallon; 236.5882365 mL) or 240 mL.
- A Canadian unit of measure equal to 8 imperial ounces (¹⁄₂₀ imperial gallon; 227.3 mL) or 250 mL.
- A British unit of measure equal to ¹⁄₂ imperial pint (10 imperial ounces; 284 mL) or 300 mL.
- A metric unit of measure equal to 250 mL.
- A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
- A contest for which a cup is awarded.
- The main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league.
- A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.
- A container in which dice are held and shaken before being thrown.
- To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.
- To hold something in cupped hands.
- To pour (a liquid, drink, etc.) into a cup.
- To supply with cups of wine.
- To apply a cup or cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping.
- To make concave or in the form of a cup.
- Initialism of Cambridge University Press.
- Initialism of Committee of Union and Progress.
- A particular trophy that is a cup; sometimes with the definite article "the".
- A win of a championship that is awarded a cup.
- A win of an event comprising part of the championship, which is awarded a cup
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Etymology
Inherited from Middle English cuppe, coppe, from the merger of Old English cuppe (“cup”) and Old English copp (“cup, vessel”). Old English cuppe is a borrowing from Late Latin cuppa, itself of obscure origin, but probably from earlier Latin cūpa (“tub, cask”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”). Old English copp, however, is from Proto-West Germanic *kopp (“round object, bowl, vessel, knoll, summit, crown of the head”), from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve, arch”) (whence also obsolete English cop (“top, summit, crown of the head”), German Kopf (“top, head”)). The Middle English word was further reinforced by Anglo-Norman cupe and Old French cope, coupe, from Latin cuppa. Compare also Saterland Frisian Kop (“cup”), West Frisian kop (“cup”), Dutch kop (“cup”), German Low German Koppke, Köppke (“cup”), Danish kop (“cup”), Swedish kopp (“cup”). Doublet of coupe, hive, and keeve.