Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - cup
Cup
cup
abbr. Cambridge University Press. CUP n. & v. --n. 1 a small bowl-shaped container, usu. with a handle for drinking from. 2 a its contents (a cup of tea). b = CUPFUL. 3 a cup-shaped thing, esp. the calyx of a flower or the socket of a bone. 4 flavoured wine, cider, etc., usu. chilled. 5 an ornamental cup-shaped trophy as a prize for victory or prowess, esp. in a sports contest. 6 one's fate or fortune (a bitter cup). 7 either of the two cup-shaped parts of a brassi{egrave}re. 8 the chalice used or the wine taken at the Eucharist. 9 Golf the hole on a putting-green or the metal container in it. --v.tr. (cupped, cupping) 1 form (esp. one's hands) into the shape of a cup. 2 take or hold as in a cup. 3 hist. bleed (a person) by using a glass in which a partial vacuum is formed by heating. Phrases and idioms cup-cake a small cake baked in a cup-shaped foil or paper container and often iced. Cup Final a final match in a competition for a cup. cup lichen a lichen, Cladonia pyxidata, with cup-shaped processes arising from the thallus. one's cup of tea colloq. what interests or suits one. cup-tie a match in a competition for a cup. in one's cups while drunk; drunk. Etymology: OE cuppe f. med.L cuppa cup, prob. differentiated from L cupa tub
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I. noun see: hive Date: before 12th century an open usually bowl-shaped drinking vessel, 2. a drinking vessel and its contents, the consecrated wine of the Communion, something that falls to one's lot, an ornamental ~ offered as a prize (as in a championship), something resembling a ~: as, a ~-shaped plant organ, an athletic supporter reinforced usually with plastic to provide extra protection to the wearer, either of two parts of a brassiere that are shaped like and fit over the breasts, the metal case inside a hole in golf, a usually iced beverage resembling punch but served from a pitcher rather than a bowl, a half pint ; eight fluid ounces, a food served in a ~-shaped usually footed vessel , the symbol ∪ indicating the union of two sets, ~like adjective II. transitive verb (~ped; ~ping) Date: 14th century to treat by ~ping, 2. to curve into the shape of a ~ , to place in or as if in a ~ ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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