Dictionary Entry
cup
cup is a 3-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 10 · 20 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
The contents of such a vessel; a cupful.
- 3noun
Repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry.
- 4noun
That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.
- 5noun
Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower.
- 6noun
A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
- 7transitive verb
To supply with cups of wine.
- 8transitive verb
To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping.
- 9transitive verb
To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw.
- 10noun
a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle
"he put the cup back in the saucer"
"the handle of the cup was missing"
- 11noun
a large metal vessel with two handles that is awarded as a trophy to the winner of a competition
"the school kept the cups is a special glass case"
- 12noun
the hole (or metal container in the hole) on a golf green
"he swore as the ball rimmed the cup and rolled away"
"put the flag back in the cup"
- 13noun
a punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl
- 14noun
cup-shaped plant organ
- 15noun
a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces
- 16noun
the quantity a cup will hold
"he drank a cup of coffee"
"he borrowed a cup of sugar"
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- 17noun
any cup-shaped concavity
"bees filled the waxen cups with honey"
"he wore a jock strap with a metal cup"
- 18verb
treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin
Synonyms
- 19verb
put into a cup
"cup the milk"
- 20verb
form into the shape of a cup
"She cupped her hands"
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