cup

Meaning

Noun

1. A concave vessel for drinking, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
2. The contents of said vessel.
3. A customary unit of measure
4. A customary unit of measure
5. A customary unit of measure
6. A customary unit of measure
7. A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
8. A contest for which a cup is awarded.
9. The main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league.
10. A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.
11. Any of various sweetened alcoholic drinks.
12. A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia.
13. One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast.
14. One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast.
15. The symbol ∪ denoting union and similar operations.
16. A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.
17. A defensive style characterized by a three player near defense cupping the thrower; or those three players.
18. A flexible concave membrane used to temporarily attach a handle or hook to a flat surface by means of suction.
19. Anything shaped like a cup.
20. A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
21. That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion of blessings and afflictions.

Verb

1. To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.
2. To hold something in cupped hands.
3. To pour (a liquid, drink, etc.) into a cup.
4. (obsolete) To supply with cups of wine.
5. To apply a cup or cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping.
6. To make concave or in the form of a cup.

Concepts

cup

glass

bowl

mug

goblet

tumbler

cupful

drinking vessel

vessel

beaker

plate

porringer

jar

billycan

can

drinking-vessel

pot

bleed

chalice

tankard

tin

container

drum

metal container

water bowl

water-cup

trophy

hole

vase

transfuse

loving cup

drink

jug

drinking glass

cupping

basin

dish

saucer

section

measuring glass

peg

calix

gallon

pint

quart

fit for

water-jar

small vessel

drinking-cup

scarify

cupping-glass

potation

experience

winebowl

platter

large

watering place

stoup

handful

antechamber

anti-room

front room

miniature chamber

prechamber

grail

canoe

spear

small jar

wine glass

tub

small dish

small

punch

cradle

crib

cupule

matrix

rocker

seat

cuppa

scyphus

aperture

breach

cavity

eyehole

eyelet

opening

orifice

perforation

puncture

slot

snag

thumbhole

trough

dipper

small glass

cover

lid

empty coconut shell

horn

etc.

encapsulate

encircle

enclose

encompass

surround

cupping glass

pan

cooking pot

pannikin

dishes

wind chimes

ladle

teacup

competition

allow

envelope

small box

billy

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kʌp/

Etymology

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.