| Noun | 1. | cup - a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ouncesgill - a United States liquid unit equal to 4 fluid ounces pint - a United States liquid unit equal to 16 fluid ounces; two pints equal one quart | |
| 2. | cup - the quantity a cup will hold; "he drank a cup of coffee"; "he borrowed a cup of sugar" | |
| 3. | cup - a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle; "he put the cup back in the saucer"; "the handle of the cup was missing"beaker - a cup (usually without a handle) chalice, goblet - a bowl-shaped drinking vessel; especially the Eucharistic cup container - any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) grace cup - cup to be passed around for the final toast after a meal cylix, kylix - a shallow drinking cup with two handles; used in ancient Greece scyphus - an ancient Greek drinking cup; two handles and footed base teacup - a cup from which tea is drunk | |
| 4. | cup - a large metal vessel with two handles that is awarded as a trophy to the winner of a competition; "the school kept the cups is a special glass case"Davis Cup - cup awarded for the annual international team tennis competition | |
| 5. | cup - any cup-shaped concavity; "bees filled the waxen cups with honey"; "he wore a jock strap with a metal cup"; "the cup of her bra" | |
| 6. | cup - the hole (or metal container in the hole) on a golf green; "he swore as the ball rimmed the cup and rolled away"; "put the flag back in the cup"hole - an opening deliberately made in or through something | |
| 7. | cup - a punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowlpunch - an iced mixed drink usually containing alcohol and prepared for multiple servings; normally served in a punch bowl claret cup - a punch made of claret and brandy with lemon juice and sugar and sometimes sherry or curacao and fresh fruit | |
| 8. | cup - cup-shaped plant organacorn cup, cupule - cup-shaped structure of hardened bracts at the base of an acorn plant organ - a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus | |
| Verb | 1. | cup - form into the shape of a cup; "She cupped her hands"shape, form - give a shape or form to; "shape the dough" | |
| 2. | cup - put into a cup; "cup the milk" | |
| 3. | cup - treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skinpractice of medicine, 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; "he studied medicine at Harvard" care for, treat - provide treatment for; "The doctor treated my broken leg"; "The nurses cared for the bomb victims"; "The patient must be treated right away or she will die"; "Treat the infection with antibiotics" | |