cup

cup
    n 1: 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"
    2: the quantity a cup will hold; "he drank a cup of coffee"; "he
       borrowed a cup of sugar" [syn: {cup}, {cupful}]
    3: 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"
    4: a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces
    5: cup-shaped plant organ
    6: a punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl
    7: 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"
    8: 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" [syn: {cup}, {loving cup}]
    v 1: form into the shape of a cup; "She cupped her hands"
    2: put into a cup; "cup the milk"
    3: treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin [syn:
       {cup}, {transfuse}]
    

Crater \Cra"ter\ (kr[=a]"t[~e]r), n. [L. crater, cratera, a
   mixing vessel, the mouth of a volcano, Gr. krath`r, fr.
   keranny`nai to mix; cf. Skr. [,c]r[imac] to mix, [,c]ir to
   cook, [,c]r[=a] to cook. Cf. {Grail}, in Holy Grail.]
   1. The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which
      the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a
      geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.
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   2. (Mil.) The pit left by the explosion of a bomb, shell, or
      mine.
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   3. (Astron.) A constellation of the southen hemisphere; --
      called also the {Cup}.
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Cup \Cup\ (k[u^]p), n. [AS. cuppe, LL. cuppa cup; cf. L. cupa
   tub, cask; cf. also Gr. ky`ph hut, Skr. k[=u]pa pit, hollow,
   OSlav. kupa cup. Cf. {Coop}, {Cupola}, {Cowl} a water vessel,
   and {Cob}, {Coif}, {Cop}.]
   1. A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin
      cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern
      times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a
      handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and
      the like.
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   2. The contents of such a vessel; a cupful.
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            Give me a cup of sack, boy.           --Shak.
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   3. pl. Repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in
      intoxicating drinks; revelry.
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            Thence from cups to civil broils.     --Milton.
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   4. That which is to be received or indured; that which is
      allotted to one; a portion.
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            O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass
            from me.                              --Matt. xxvi.
                                                  39.
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   5. Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of
      a flower.
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            The cowslip's golden cup no more I see. --Shenstone.
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   6. (Med.) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used
      to produce the vacuum in cupping.
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   {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.
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Cup \Cup\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cupped} (k[u^]pt); p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Cupping}.]
   1. To supply with cups of wine. [R.]
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            Cup us, till the world go round.      --Shak.
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   2. (Surg.) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the
      operation of cupping. See {Cupping}.
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   3. (Mech.) To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to
      cup the end of a screw.
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CUP
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Cup
a wine-cup (Gen. 40:11, 21), various forms of which are found on
Assyrian and Egyptian monuments. All Solomon's drinking vessels
were of gold (1 Kings 10: 21). The cups mentioned in the New
Testament were made after Roman and Greek models, and were
sometimes of gold (Rev. 17:4).

  The art of divining by means of a cup was practiced in Egypt
(Gen. 44:2-17), and in the East generally.

  The "cup of salvation" (Ps. 116:13) is the cup of thanksgiving
for the great salvation. The "cup of consolation" (Jer. 16:7)
refers to the custom of friends sending viands and wine to
console relatives in mourning (Prov. 31:6). In 1 Cor. 10:16, the
"cup of blessing" is contrasted with the "cup of devils" (1 Cor.
10:21). The sacramental cup is the "cup of blessing," because of
blessing pronounced over it (Matt. 26:27; Luke 22:17). The
"portion of the cup" (Ps. 11:6; 16:5) denotes one's condition of
life, prosperous or adverse. A "cup" is also a type of sensual
allurement (Jer. 51:7; Prov. 23:31; Rev. 17:4). We read also of
the "cup of astonishment," the "cup of trembling," and the "cup
of God's wrath" (Ps. 75:8; Isa. 51:17; Jer. 25:15; Lam. 4:21;
Ezek. 23:32; Rev. 16:19; comp. Matt. 26:39, 42; John 18:11). The
cup is also the symbol of death (Matt. 16:28; Mark 9:1; Heb.
2:9).
    

172 Moby Thesaurus words for "cup":
      Friday, Friday the thirteenth, Old Mug, alveolation, alveolus,
      antrum, appointed lot, arch, armpit, astral influences, astrology,
      bail, barrow, basin, bays, beaker, blackjack, bleed, book of fate,
      boundary stone, bowl, brass, bucket, bust, cairn, cave, cave in,
      cavity, cenotaph, chalice, chaplet, civic crown, coffee cup,
      column, concave, concavity, constellation, crater, cromlech, cross,
      crown, crypt, cyclolith, decant, depression, destination, destiny,
      dies funestis, dip, dish, dish out, dish up, dolmen, doom, eggcup,
      end, fatality, fate, fold, follicle, footstone, foredoom, fork,
      fortune, funnel chest, future, garland, give a transfusion, glass,
      goblet, grave, gravestone, headstone, highball glass, hoarstone,
      hole, hollow, hollow out, hollow shell, horn, ides of March,
      incurve, inevitability, inscription, jigger, kismet, lacuna, ladle,
      laurel, laurels, leech, let blood, lot, loving cup, marker,
      mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch,
      memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, moira,
      monolith, monument, mound, mug, necrology, noggin, obelisk,
      obituary, palm, palms, perfuse, phlebotomize, pillar, pit, planets,
      plaque, pocket, pony, portion, pot, pour, prize, punch bowl,
      pyramid, reliquary, remembrance, retire, retreat, ribbon,
      rostral column, schooner, schooper, scoop, shaft, shell,
      shot glass, shovel, shrine, sink, sinus, socket, spade, spoon,
      stars, stein, stela, stone, stupa, tablet, tankard, tassie, teacup,
      testimonial, tomb, tombstone, tope, transfuse, trophy, trough,
      tumbler, unlucky day, vug, weird, wheel of fortune, will of Heaven,
      wineglass, wreath