What is cup?

More definitions of "cup":

• (verb): Form into the shape of a cup.
  Example: "She cupped her hands"

• (noun): A small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle.
  Example: "He put the cup back in the saucer"; "the handle of the cup was missing"

• (verb): Treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin.
  Synonyms: transfuse

• (noun): Any cup-shaped concavity.
  Example: "Bees filled the waxen cups with honey"; "he wore a jock strap with a metal cup"; "the cup of her bra"

• (noun): A punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl.

• (noun): Cup-shaped plant organ.

• (noun): The quantity a cup will hold.
  Example: "He drank a cup of coffee"; "he borrowed a cup of sugar"
  Synonyms: cupful

• (noun): A large metal vessel with two handles that is awarded as a trophy to the winner of a competition.
  Synonyms: loving cup

• (verb): Put into a cup.
  Example: "Cup the milk"

• (noun): The hole (or metal container in the hole) on a golf green.
  Example: "He swore as the ball rimmed the cup and rolled away"; "put the flag back in the cup"

Famous quotes containing the word cup:

“If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby “it.””
—Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927)

“Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left for the others.”
—Elizabeth Fishel (20th century)

“In poorer lands
No one touches the water of life.
It has no taste
And though it refreshes absolutely
It is a cup that must also pass
Until everybody
Gets some advantage....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)