Cup vs Cop - What's the difference?
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A concave vessel for drinking from, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
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, title= 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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, title= 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 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.
* Shenstone
(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
To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.
To hold something in cupped hands.
(obsolete) To supply with cups of wine.
* Shakespeare
(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 obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take
* 2005 , Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home , Simon & Schuster, page 10:
to (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
to steal
to adopt
to admit, especially to a crime.
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(crafts) The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
(obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill.
* Drayton
(obsolete) The head.
A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
(architecture, military) A merlon.
As nouns the difference between cup and cop
is that cup is cup while cop is plait, braid (of hair).As a verb cup
is to not attend a course, a class without permission of the teacher or cup can be to temporarily or permanently cease to provide (electricity or water supply) or cup can be to switch off (a breaker or fuse).cup
English
(wikipedia cup)Noun
(en noun)T time, passage=
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner.
- the cup of an acorn
- The cowslip's golden cup no more I see.
- 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 cupCoordinate terms
* mug * pannikinVerb
- Cup your hands and I'll pour some rice into them.
- He cupped the ball carefully in his hands.
- Cup us, till the world go round.
- to cup the end of a screw
Anagrams
* * * 1000 English basic words ----cop
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) coppe, from (etyl) . More at (l).Etymology 2
Possibly from (etyl) , from (etyl) kapia, to buy.Verb
(copp)- Heroin appeared on the streets of our town for the first time, and Innie watched helplessly as his sixteen-year-old brother began taking the train to Harlem to cop smack.
- When caught, he would often cop a vicious blow from his father
- No need to cop an attitude with me, junior.
- I already copped to the murder. What else do you want from me?
- Harold copped to being known as "Dirty Harry".
Derived terms
* cop a feel * cop a plea * cop off * cop on * cop out, cop-outEtymology 3
Short for above, i.e. a criminal.Synonyms
* See alsoEtymology 4
(etyl) cop, copp, from (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch kop, German Kopf.Noun
(en noun)- Cop they used to call / The tops of many hills.