cup : Idioms & Phrases

• noun cup-shaped structure of hardened bracts at the base of an acorn
  cupule.
  

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A"corn cup

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1. The involucre or cup in which the acorn is fixed.

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• noun a common name for a variety of Sarcosomataceae
  

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• noun a scarlet European fungus with cup-shaped ascocarp
  Peziza coccinea; blood cup.
  

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• noun a small porous bowl made of bone ash used in assaying to separate precious metals from e.g. lead
  refractory pot; cupel.
  

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• noun a variety of sclerotinia
  

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• noun a punch containing a sparkling wine
  

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• noun a common name for a variety of Sarcosomataceae
  

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• noun a punch made of claret and brandy with lemon juice and sugar and sometimes sherry or curacao and fresh fruit
  

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• noun a cup from which coffee is drunk
  

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• 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. -

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• familiar companions.

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• noun European biennial widely cultivated for its blue or violet or white flowers
  Campanula medium; Canterbury bell.
  

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• noun the final match of any cup competition (such as the annual final of the English soccer competition at Wembley)
  

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• noun any fungus that is a member of the subclass Discomycetes
  discomycete.
  

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• noun hook (usually on the underside of a shelf) for hanging cups
  

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• noun an edible morel with a cup-shaped or saucer-shaped fruiting body can be up to 20 cm wide; the fertile surface inside the cup has wrinkles radiating from the center; can be easily confused with inedible mushrooms
  Disciotis venosa.
  

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• noun an activity that you like or at which you are superior
  dish; bag.
  
  • chemistry is not my cup of tea
  • his bag now is learning to play golf
  • marriage was scarcely his dish

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• noun an eliminating game between teams in a cup competition
  

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Cup"-gall` noun

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1. A kind of oak-leaf gall. See Gall.

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Cup"-moss` noun

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1. (Bot.) A kind of lichen, of the genus Cladonia.

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Cup"-rose noun

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1. Red poppy. See Cop-rose.

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• noun cup awarded for the annual international team tennis competition
  

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• noun extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills
  Amanita phalloides; death angel; destroying angel; death cap.
  

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• noun a small container (open at one end) in which dice are shaken by hand and from which they are thrown
  dice box.
  

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• noun a disposable cup made of paper; for holding drinks
  Dixie cup.
  

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• verb drink to the last drop
  drink up.
  
  • drink up--there's more wine coming

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• (Med.), a cup used for dry or wet cupping. See under Cupping.

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• the application of a cupping instrument without scarification, to draw blood to the surface, produce counter irritation, etc.

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• noun dishware consisting of a small cup for serving a boiled egg
  eggcup.
  

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Egg"-cup` noun

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1. A cup used for holding an egg, at table.

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• noun apothecium of a fungus of the family Pezizaceae
  

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• noun a small vessel with a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye; use to apply medicated or cleansing solution to the eyeball
  eyecup; eyebath.
  
  • an eyecup is called an eyebath in Britain

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• noun a scarlet European fungus with cup-shaped ascocarp
  Peziza coccinea; blood cup.
  
• noun miterwort of northeastern North America usually with two opposite leaves on erect flowering stems that terminate in erect racemes of white flowers
  Mitella diphylla.
  

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• noun the cuplike or ringlike or tubular structure of a flower which bears the sepals and stamens and calyx (as in Rosaceae)
  calyx tube; hypanthium.
  

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• noun slender fern of northern North America with shining chestnut-colored stipes and bipinnate fronds with usually distinct marginal sori
  Woodsia alpina; Alpine woodsia; northern woodsia.
  

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• noun plant growing in clumps with mostly basal leaves and cream-colored or pale pink fringed flowers in several long racemes; Alaska to coastal central California and east to Idaho
  Tellima grandiflora; false alumroot.
  

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• noun native of Mexican highlands grown for its glossy clear yellow flowers and blue-grey finely dissected foliage
  Mexican tulip poppy; Hunnemania fumariifolia.
  

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• (Bot.), the buttercup.

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• noun cup to be passed around for the final toast after a meal
  

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• . (a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after grace. (b) A health drunk after grace has been said.

  The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health. Hing.

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• noun perennial bog herb having dark red flowers and decumbent broadly winged pitchers forming a rosette; of northeastern North America and naturalized in Europe especially Ireland
  huntsman's cup; common pitcher plant; Sarracenia purpurea.
  

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• (Bot.), the sidesaddle flower, or common American pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea).

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• noun perennial bog herb having dark red flowers and decumbent broadly winged pitchers forming a rosette; of northeastern North America and naturalized in Europe especially Ireland
  huntsman's cup; common pitcher plant; Sarracenia purpurea.
  

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• noun a large drinking vessel (usually with two handles) that people drink out of in turn at a banquet
  
• noun a large metal vessel with two handles that is awarded as a trophy to the winner of a competition
  cup.
  
  • the school kept the cups is a special glass case

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• noun graduated cup used to measure liquid or granular ingredients
  

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Mon"key-cup` noun

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1. (Bot.) See Nepenthes.

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• noun medium to large deciduous oak of central and eastern North America with ovoid acorns deeply immersed in large fringed cups; yields tough close-grained wood
  Quercus macrocarpa; burr oak; mossycup oak; bur oak.
  

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• noun a drinking cup with a bar inside the rim to keep a man's mustache out of the drink
  moustache cup.
  

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• noun a drinking cup with a bar inside the rim to keep a man's mustache out of the drink
  moustache cup.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a very large, cup-shaped, marine sponge (Thalassema Neptuni).

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• a cup, or small receptacle, connected with a bearing as a lubricator, and usually provided with a wick, wire, or adjustable valve for regulating the delivery of oil.

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• noun (embryology) a two-walled cuplike depression that develops into the pigmented and sensory layers of the retina
  eyecup.
  

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• noun any of various plants of the genus Castilleja having dense spikes of hooded flowers with brightly colored bracts
  Indian paintbrush.
  

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• (Bot.), any plant of an American genus of herbs (Castilleia) in which the bracts are usually bright-colored and more showy than the flowers. Castilleia coccinea has brilliantly scarlet bracts, and is common in meadows.

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• noun a disposable cup made of paper; for holding drinks
  Dixie cup.
  

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• noun plant with 1 or 2 white starlike flowers on short leafless stalks; Alaska to California and east to Oregon and Montana
  bride's bonnet; Clintonia uniflora.
  

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• a cup given as a prize to the victor in a race.

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• noun a common name for a variety of Sarcosomataceae
  

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• noun a discomycete that is a harbinger of spring; the fruiting body is thin and tough and saucer-shaped (about the size of quarter to a half dollar) with a deep bright red upper surface and a whitish exterior
  Sarcoscypha coccinea.
  

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• a cup with a siphon attached for carrying off any liquid in it; specifically (Mach.), an oil cup in which oil is carried over the edge of a tube in a cotton wick, and so reaches the surface to be lubricated.

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Sneak"-cup` noun

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1. One who sneaks from his cups; one who balks his glass. Obs. Shak.

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• (Bot.), the blossom of the Hepatica triloba, a low perennial herb with cup-shaped flowers varying from purplish blue to pink or even white. It is one of the earliest flowers of spring.

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• a tall goblet, with a foot and a cover.

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• noun a farewell drink (especially one offered to a horseman ready to depart); usually alcoholic
  

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• a parting cup taken after mounting.

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• noun a cup-shaped device (made of rubber, glass, or plastic) that produces a partial vacuum; used to adhere or draw something to a surface
  

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• noun the edible yellow fruit of the Jamaica honeysuckle
  bell apple; water lemon; yellow granadilla.
  

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• (Physics), a philosophical toy, consisting of a cup, within which is the figure of a man, and within the figure a siphon, the longer arm of which passes down through the bottom of the cup, and allows the escape of any liquid that may be poured in, when it reaches as high as the bend of the siphon, which is just below the level of the mouth of the figure in the cup.

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• to be drunk.

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• to drink. Obs.

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• a cup from which wassail was drunk.

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• the operation of drawing blood by the application of a cupping instrument after scarification.

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• noun a soccer tournament held every four years between national soccer teams to determine a world champion
  

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