| 单词 | cup |
| 释义 | cup (once / 65 pages) 1nv 2n 3n 4n A cup is a vessel used for drinking. Your grandmother might make it a habit never to go to bed without a cup of warm milk. A cup is like a small bowl with a handle. It's also a unit of measurement in cooking — if a recipe calls for a cup of water, it's the same as eight ounces. If you cup your hands, you form them into a cup shape, which you do when you hold a baby bird or cup your hand to whisper to your friend. If you say, "Polka music's not my cup of tea," it means you don't love it. WORD FAMILYcup: cupful, cuplike, cupped, cupping, cups+/cupful: cupfuls/cupping: cuppings USAGE EXAMPLESHe started concentrating on that fix at the World Cup in Australia, where he teamed with Rickie Fowler to finish tied for second. Golf Digest(Jan 02, 2017) Day previously worked with the U.S. men’s ski team, coaching Ted Ligety to four world titles and two World Cup giant slalom globes. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) United States national men’s soccer team wins, 1-0, on dramatic goal in Trinidad and qualifies for World Cup on final day. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n 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 Exp|Hypo|Hyper Holy Grail (legend) chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper beaker a cup (usually without a handle) chalice, gobleta bowl-shaped drinking vessel; especially the Eucharistic cup coffee cupa cup from which coffee is drunk Dixie cup, paper cupa disposable cup made of paper; for holding drinks grace cupcup to be passed around for the final toast after a meal cylix, kylixa shallow drinking cup with two handles; used in ancient Greece moustache cup, mustache cupa drinking cup with a bar inside the rim to keep a man's mustache out of the drink scyphusan ancient Greek drinking cup; two handles and footed base teacupa cup from which tea is drunk demitassesmall coffee cup; for serving black coffee 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) crockery, dishwaretableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively 2n a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces Hyper United States liquid unit a liquid unit officially adopted in the United States Customary System 3n the quantity a cup will hold he drank a cup of coffee he borrowed a cup of sugar Syn|Hyper cupful containerful the quantity that a container will hold 4n 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 Hyper concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature a shape that curves or bends inward 5n cup-shaped plant organ Hypo|Hyper acorn 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 6v form into the shape of a cup She cupped her hands Hyper form, shape give shape or form to 7v put into a cup cup the milk Hyper enclose, inclose, insert, introduce, put in, stick in introduce 8v treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin 2Syn|Hyper transfuse care for, treat provide treatment for n a punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl 3Hypo|Hyper champagne cup a punch containing a sparkling wine claret cupa punch made of claret and brandy with lemon juice and sugar and sometimes sherry or curacao and fresh fruit punch an iced mixed drink usually containing alcohol and prepared for multiple servings; normally served in a punch bowl n the hole (or metal container in the hole) on a golf green 4he swore as the ball rimmed the cup and rolled away put the flag back in the cup Hyper hole an opening deliberately made in or through something n 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|Hypo|Hyper loving cup Davis Cup cup awarded for the annual international team tennis competition prize, trophy something given as a token of victory |
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