Cup vs Diota - What's the difference?
cup | diota |
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.
(historical, Roman antiquity) A vase or drinking cup with two handles.
* 1817 , , Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa , Part 2: Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land, 4th Edition, Volume 6,
* 1832 , G. H. Smith, Appendix I: Observations on the Coinage and Currency of the Greeks'', ''A Manual of Grecian Antiquities ,
* 1865 , Dominic Ellis Colnaghi, Travels & Discoveries in The Levant , Volume 1,
As a noun cup
is cup.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).As a proper noun diota is
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(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 ----diota
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Noun
(en-noun)page 105,
- A Greek'' had recently discovered a vessel of ''terra cotta'' containing some small bronze coins of ''Naxos'', of the finest die, exhibiting the head of the bearded ''Bacchus'' in front, and a ''diota on the reverse, with the legend ??????: we bought ten of these.
page 262,
- The reasons for introducing these two devices are obvious; but the case of the diota, which is commonly placed horizontally under the feet of the owl, requires a separate explanation. Corsini says, in a dissertation of his Fasti Attici, that it is supposed by dome to refer to the amphora of oil, which was presented to the conquerors at the Panathenæa; but is himself of opinion, that it intended to denotes the manufacture of vessels in terra cotta, for which the Athenians were celebrated.
page 236,
- On the shore here I found three handles of Greek unpainted diotæ , on which magistrates? names are stamped.