Definition of cup

"cup" in the noun sense

1. 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"

2. cup, cupful

the quantity a cup will hold

"he drank a cup of coffee"

"he borrowed a cup of sugar"

3. 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"

4. cup

a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces

5. cup

cup-shaped plant organ

6. cup

a punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl

7. 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"

8. cup, loving 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"

"cup" in the verb sense

1. cup

form into the shape of a cup

"She cupped her hands"

2. cup

put into a cup

"cup the milk"

3. cup, transfuse

treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin

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Quotations for cup

There's many a slip
'Twixt the cup and the lip. [ Proverb ]

A full cup is hard to carry. [ Proverb ]

Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine. [ Ben Jonson ]

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy,
There is healing in the bitter cup. [ Southey ]

There is healing in the bitter cup. [ Southey ]

A full cup must be carried steadily. [ Proverb ]

The cup of joy is heaviest when empty. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

The wild bee reels from bough to bough
With his furry coat and his gauzy wing.
Now in a lily cup, and now
Setting a jacinth bell a-swing.
In his wandering. [ Oscar Wilde ]

Civilization has its cup of bitterness. [ F. de Conches ]

He has exhausted at last the cup of grief. [ Cicero ]

The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain. [ Homer ]

Faster and more fast,
O'er night's brim, day boils at last;
Boils, pure gold, over the cloud-cup's brim. [ Robert Browning ]

The honey-bee that wanders all day long
The field, the woodland, and the garden over.
To gather in his fragrant winter store.
Humming in calm content his winter song,
Seeks not alone the rose's glowing breast,
The lily's dainty cup, the violet's lips.
But from all rank and noxious weeds he sips
The single drop of sweetness closely pressed
Within the poison chalice. [ Anne C. Lynch Botta ]

He's a thief, for he has taken a cup too much. [ Proverb ]

Never give up! or the burden may sink you,
Providence wisely has mingled the cup;
And in all trials and troubles bethink you,
The watchword of life should be, Never give up! [ M. F. Tupper ]

Life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim. [ Byron ]

Many things fall out between the cup and the lip. [ Proverb ]

Years steal
Fire from the mind, as vigour from the limb;
And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim. [ Byron ]

Oft times many things fall out between the cup and the lip. [ Greene ]

He's so covetous, that he will not give even a cup of cold water. [ Proverb ]

A little bitter mingled in our cup leaves no relish of the sweet. [ Locke ]

Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil. [ William Shakespeare ]

A little rain will fill the lily's cup, which hardly moists the field. [ Edwin Arnold ]

Life resembles a cup of clear water which becomes muddy as we drink it. [ Mme. Dufresnoy ]

We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloyed? [ Colton ]

One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Your voiceless lips, O flowers, are living preachers - each cup a pulpit, and each leaf a book. [ Horace Smith ]

Behold the morning! Rise up, O youth, and quickly fill thyself with this rosy wine sparkling from the crystal cup of the dawn! [ Omar Khayam ]

A friend gilds the scene of life with sunshine, seasons the cup of plenty, assuages fear, quickens hope, and animates pleasure. [ T. L. O'Beirne ]

I value the education of the intellect not for its present joy alone, but for the greater growth it gives, the enlargement of the cup to take in more and higher joys. [ Parker ]

When the heart of man is serene and tranquil, he wants to enjoy nothing but himself: every movement, even corporeal movement, shakes the brimming nectar cup too rudely. [ Richter ]

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright: at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. [ Bible ]

"No" is a surly, honest fellow--speaks his mind rough and round at once. "But" is a sneaking, evasive, half-bred, exceptuous sort of conjunction, which comes to pull away the cup just when it is at your lips. [ Scott ]

There is dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens its cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself and the drop runs off. So God rains goodness and mercy as wide as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we do not open our hearts to receive them. [ Aughey ]

The education which has, however, made me a writer has been a living one. I have not only read much, I have seen much, and enjoyed much, and, above all, I have sorrowed much. God has put into my hands every cup of life, sweet and bitter, and the bitter has often become sweet, and the sweet bitter. [ Amelia E. Barr, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is the best flower of civilisation, and the best result which life has to offer us--a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know is brought into play, and as the reproduction, in finer form, of all our havings. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

There is scare any lot so low, but there is something in it to satisfy the man whom it has befallen, Providence having so ordered things, that in every man's cup how bitter soever, there are some cordial drops, some good circumstances, which if wisely extracted, are sufficient for the purpose he wants them, that is, to make him contented, and if not happy, at least resigned. [ Sterne ]

cup in Scrabble®

The word cup is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters cup:

CUP
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CUP
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CUP
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word cup

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The 23 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In cup

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cup in Words With Friends™

The word cup is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters cup:

CUP
(30)
CUP
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CUP
(30)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word cup

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The 24 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In cup

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Words within the letters of cup

2 letter words in cup (1 word)

3 letter words in cup (1 word)

cup + 1 blank (5 words)

Words containing the sequence cup

Words with cup in them (135 words)

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Word Growth involving cup

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Longer words containing cup

acupoint acupoints

acupress acupressure acupressures

acupunctuate acupunctuated

acupunctuate acupunctuates

acupunctuating

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acupunctural

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acupuncturist acupuncturists

acupunturist acupunturists

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alecup alecups

buttercup buttercups

coffeecup coffeecupful

coffeecup coffeecups

cupbearer cupbearers

cupboard cupboarded

cupboard cupboardful cupboardfuls

cupboard cupboarding

cupboard cupboards

cupcake cupcakes

cupflower cupflowers

cupful coffeecupful

cupful cupfuls teacupfuls

cupful teacupful teacupfuls

cupholder cupholders

cuphook cuphooks

cupid cupidity

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cupless

cuplike

cupmaker cupmakers

cupmaking

cupola cupolas

cupped hiccupped

cupped uncupped

cupping hiccupping

cupping uncupping

cuprene cuprenes

cupric

cupriferous

cuprite cuprites

cuprocyanide cuprocyanides

cups alecups

cups buttercups

cups coffeecups

cups cupsful teacupsful

cups cupshaped

cups deathcups

cups eggcups

cups eyecups

cups hiccups

cups teacups teacupsful

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cupula cupulae

cupula cupular

cupula cupulas

cupula cupulate

cupule cupules

cupuliferous

cupuliform

deathcup deathcups

decuple decupled

decuple decuples

decupling

eggcup eggcups

eyecup eyecups

hiccup hiccuped

hiccup hiccuping

hiccup hiccupped

hiccup hiccupping

hiccup hiccups

hiccup hiccupy

occupance occupances

occupancies inoccupancies

occupancy inoccupancy

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occupant occupants

occupate occupated

occupate occupates

occupating

occupatio occupation disoccupation disoccupations

occupatio occupation misoccupation misoccupations

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occupatio occupation occupational occupationalist occupationalists

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occupatio occupation reoccupation preoccupation overpreoccupation

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occupiable

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porcupine porcupinefish porcupinefishes

porcupine porcupines

porcupinish

porcupiny

recuperability

recuperable

recuperance

recuperate recuperated

recuperate recuperates

recuperating

recuperation recuperations

recuperative recuperativeness

recuperator recuperators

recuperator recuperatory

splashcup

teacup teacupful teacupfuls

teacup teacups teacupsful

uncup uncupped

uncup uncupping

uncup uncups