cup
cup is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 8 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The contents of such a vessel; a cupful. Give me a cup of sack, boy. Shak.
- 2.pl. Repeated potations; social or exessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry. Thence from cups to civil broils. Milton.
- 3.That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion. O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. Matt. xxvi.
- 4.5. Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower. The cowslip's golden cup no more I see. Shenstone.
- 5.(Med.) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping. Cup and ball, a familiar toy of children, having a cup on the top of a piece of wood to which, a ball is attached by a cord; the ball, being thrown up, is to be caught in the cup; bilboquet. Milman.- Cup and can, familiar companions. -- Dry cup, Wet cup (Med.), a cup used for dry or wet cupping. See under Cupping. -- To be in one's cups, to be drunk.
- 6.To supply with cups of wine. [R.] Cup us, till the world go round. Shak.
- 7.(Surg.) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping.
- 8.(Mech.) To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- agreeable
- and
- animal
- bale
- bask
- basket
- bed
- bodily
- bonne
- bouche
- burden
- cargo
- clover
- comfort
- comfortable
- contents
- cosmopolitan
- cosy
- creature
- dainty
- dissipation
- domestic
- drink
- ease
- eat
- enjoy
- enjoyment
- even
- experience
- fat
- feast
- feel
- fine
- float
- freight
- give
- gloat
- gratification
- graves
- gusto
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is cup.
- What is the contents of such a vessel; a cupful. Give me a cup of sack, boy. Shak called?
- What is pl. Repeated potations; social or exessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry. Thence from cups to civil broils. Milton called?
- What is that which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion. O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. Matt. xxvi called?
- What is 5. Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower. The cowslip's golden cup no more I see. Shenstone called?
- What is to supply with cups of wine. [R.] Cup us, till the world go round. Shak called?
- What is to apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping called?
- What is to make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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