| 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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