NOUN | artifact | cup | a small open container usually used for drinking |
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quantity | cup, cupful | the quantity a cup will hold | |
shape | cup | any cup-shaped concavity | |
quantity | cup | a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces | |
plant | cup | cup-shaped plant organ | |
food | cup | a punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl | |
artifact | cup | the hole (or metal container in the hole) on a golf green | |
artifact | cup, loving cup | a large metal vessel with two handles that is awarded as a trophy to the winner of a competition | |
VERB | change | cup | form into the shape of a cup |
change | cup | put into a cup | |
body | cup, transfuse | treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin |
Sounds | kah'p | |
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Rhymes | archbishop ... worship: 69 rhymes with ahp... |
Meaning | The quantity a cup will hold. | |
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Synonym | cupful | |
Broader | containerful | The quantity that a container will hold |
Spanish | copa, taza | |
Catalan | copa | |
Verbs | cup | put into a cup |
Meaning | Any cup-shaped concavity. | |
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Broader | concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature | A shape that curves or bends inward |
Spanish | copa |
Meaning | A United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces. | |
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Part of | pint | A United States liquid unit equal to 16 fluid ounces |
Parts | gill | A United States liquid unit equal to 4 fluid ounces |
Broader | United States liquid unit | A liquid unit officially adopted in the United States Customary System |
Spanish | copa, taza | |
Catalan | copa |
Meaning | Cup-shaped plant organ. | |
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Narrower | cupule, acorn cup | Cup-shaped structure of hardened bracts at the base of an acorn |
Broader | plant organ | A functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus |
Spanish | copa |
Meaning | A punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl. | |
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Narrower | champagne cup | A punch containing a sparkling wine |
claret cup | A punch made of claret and brandy with lemon juice and sugar and sometimes sherry or curacao and fresh fruit | |
Broader | punch | An iced mixed drink usually containing alcohol and prepared for multiple servings |
Meaning | The hole (or metal container in the hole) on a golf green. | |
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Broader | hole | An opening deliberately made in or through something |
Spanish | hoyo | |
Catalan | forat |
Meaning | A large metal vessel with two handles that is awarded as a trophy to the winner of a competition. | |
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Example | "the school kept the cups is a special glass case" | |
Synonym | loving cup | |
Narrower | Davis Cup | cup awarded for the annual international team tennis competition |
Broader | trophy, prize | Something given as a token of victory |
Spanish | copa, taza | |
Catalan | copa |
Meaning | form into the shape of a cup. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Example | "She cupped her hands" | |
Broader | shape, form | Give shape or form to |
Spanish | acoparse |
Meaning | put into a cup. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Example | "cup the milk" | |
Broader | insert, enclose, inclose, stick in, put in, introduce | introduce |
Nouns | cup | a small open container usually used for drinking |
cup | the quantity a cup will hold |
Meaning | treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody | |
Synonym | transfuse | |
Category | medicine, practice of medicine | The learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries |
Broader | treat, care for | Provide treatment for |
Spanish | aplicar tazas, transfundir | |
Nouns | cupping | a treatment in which evacuated cups are applied to the skin to draw blood through the surface |
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