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Bowel vs Cup - What's the difference?

bowel | cup |

As nouns the difference between bowel and cup

is that bowel is a part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine while cup is a concave vessel for drinking from, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.

As verbs the difference between bowel and cup

is that bowel is to disembowel while cup is to form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.

bowel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chiefly, medicine) A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
  • (in the plural) The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach.
  • * 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts I:
    • And when he was hanged, brast asondre in the myddes, and all his bowels gusshed out.
  • (in the plural) The (deep) interior of something.
    • The treasures were stored in the bowels of the ship.
  • * 1592 , , I. i. 129:
    • His soldiers cried out amain, / And rushed into the bowels of the battle.
  • (in the plural, archaic) The seat of pity or the gentler emotions; pity or mercy.
  • * 1602 , , II. i. 48:
    • Thou thing of no bowels , thou!
  • * Fuller
    • Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels .
  • (obsolete, in plural) offspring
  • * 1604 , , III. i. 29:
    • Friend hast thou none, / For thine own bowels , which do call thee sire,

    Derived terms

    * bowel cancer * bowel movement * bowel obstruction * bowelless * disbowel * disembowel * embowel * irritable bowel syndrome * large bowel * unbowel

    Verb

    (bowell)
  • To disembowel.
  • * 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, page 149:
    • Their bodies are first bowelled , then dried upon hurdles till they be very dry [...].

    See also

    * large bowel * small bowel * small intestine * colon * laxative * tharm

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    cup

    English

    (wikipedia cup)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A concave vessel for drinking from, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
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  • A US unit of liquid measure equal to 8 fluid ounces, 1/16 of a US gallon, or 236.5882365 ml.
  • A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
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  • A contest for which a cup is awarded.
  • (golf) A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.
  • (US) A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia. (for UK usage see box)
  • One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast, used as a measurement of size.
  • (mathematics) The symbol \cup denoting union and similar operations (confer cap).
  • A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.
  • (ultimate frisbee) A defensive style characterized by a three player near defense cupping'' the thrower; ''or those three players.
  • A flexible concave membrane used to temporarily attach a handle or hook to a flat surface by means of suction (suction cup).
  • Anything shaped like a cup.
    • the cup of an acorn
  • * Shenstone
    • The cowslip's golden cup no more I see.
  • (medicine, historical) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
  • That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.
  • * Bible, Matthew xxvi. 39
    • O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.

    Derived terms

    * bra cup * coffee cup * cupcake * Cup Final * cuppa * cup size * egg cup, eggcup * teacup * world cup

    Coordinate terms

    * mug * pannikin

    Verb

  • To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.
    • Cup your hands and I'll pour some rice into them.
  • To hold something in cupped hands.
    • He cupped the ball carefully in his hands.
  • (obsolete) To supply with cups of wine.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Cup us, till the world go round.
  • (transitive, surgery, archaic) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping.
  • (engineering) To make concave or in the form of a cup.
    • to cup the end of a screw

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