Drinking-cup

  • 21cup — [[t]kʌp[/t]] n. v. cupped, cup•ping 1) a small, open container made of china, glass, metal, etc., usu. with a handle, used chiefly as a drinking vessel for hot beverages 2) cer the bowllike part of a goblet or the like 3) a cup with its contents… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 22Drinking — Drink Drink (dr[i^][ng]k), v. i. [imp. {Drank} (dr[a^][ng]k), formerly {Drunk} (dr[u^][ng]k); & p. p. {Drunk}, {Drunken} ( n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Drinking}. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 23Cup holder — This article is about vehicle and auditorium cup holders. For other uses, see Cup holder (disambiguation). A cup holder is a device to hold a cup or other drinking vessel. It is a fixture in automobiles, trains, and other vehicles, as well as in… …

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  • 24cup — 1 /kVp/ noun 1 FOR DRINKING FROM (C) a small round container with a handle, that you use to drink tea, coffee etc: a cup and saucer | tea cup/coffee cup: a beautiful set of tea cups compare mug 1 (1) 2 DRINK (C) the liquid contained inside a cup …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 25cup — cuplike, adj. /kup/, n., v., cupped, cupping. n. 1. a small, open container made of china, glass, metal, etc., usually having a handle and used chiefly as a receptable from which to drink tea, soup, etc. 2. the bowllike part of a goblet or the… …

    Universalium

  • 26Cup —    A wine cup (Gen. 40:11, 21), various forms of which are found on Assyrian and Egyptian monuments. All Solomon s drinking vessels were of gold (1 Kings 10: 21). The cups mentioned in the New Testament were made after Roman and Greek models, and …

    Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • 27cup — 1. noun /kʌp/ a) A concave vessel for drinking from, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass). Pour the tea into the cup. b) A US unit of liquid measure equal to 8 fluid ounces, 1/16 of a US gallon, or 236.5882365 ml. The World Cup …

    Wiktionary

  • 28cup — noun 1》 a small bowl shaped container for drinking from, typically with a handle.     ↘chiefly N. Amer. a measure of capacity used in cookery, equal to half a US pint (0.237 litre).     ↘(in church use) a chalice used at the Eucharist.… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 29cup — [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… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 30cup — [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… …

    Word origins