cup
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
A concave vessel for drinking, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
Pour the tea into the cup.
- 2.
The contents of said vessel.
I drank two cups of water but still felt thirsty.
Đồng nghĩa: cupful
- 3.
A customary unit of measure
- 4.
A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
The World Cup is awarded to the winner of a quadrennial football tournament.
- 5.
A contest for which a cup is awarded.
The World Cup is the world's most widely watched sporting event.
- 6.
(soccer) The main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league.
- 7.
(golf) A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.
The ball just misses the cup.
- 8.
A container in which dice are held and shaken before being thrown.
- 9.
(in compounds)(in combination) Any of various sweetened alcoholic drinks.
cider cup
gin cup
claret cup
- 10.
(Canada, US)A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia.
Players of contact sports are advised to wear a cup.
Đồng nghĩa: box
- 11.
One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast.
The cups are made of a particularly uncomfortable material.
- 12.
(mathematics) The symbol ∪ denoting union and similar operations.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.
Cup your hands and I'll pour some rice into them.
- 2.
(transitive)To hold something in cupped hands.
He cupped the ball carefully in his hands.
- 3.
(transitive)To pour (a liquid, drink, etc.) into a cup.
We are cupping some new brands of coffee today.
- 4.
(obsolete, transitive)To supply with cups of wine.
- 5.
(archaic, transitive)(transitive, surgery, archaic) To apply a cup or cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping.
- 6.
(transitive)(transitive, engineering) To make concave or in the form of a cup.
to cup the end of a screw
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Nguồn gốc từ
Middle English cuppe, coppe, from the merger of Old English cuppe (cup) and Old English copp (cup, vessel).