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tup | cup |

As nouns the difference between tup and cup

is that tup is a male sheep, a ram or tup can be two pence while cup is cup.

As verbs the difference between tup and cup

is that tup is to mate; used of a ram mating with a ewe while 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).

tup

English

(wikipedia tup)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) tupe, origin unknown.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A male sheep, a ram.
  • * 1790 [http://books.google.com/books?id=orhMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA222&dq=%22a%20tup%20in%20an%20halter%22#v=onepage&q=%22a%20tup%20in%20an%20halter%22&f=false]
    • ... to tie up rams, which could not be supposed to much used to handling ... having often heard for a proverb, as mad as a tup in an halter
  • The head of a hammer, and particularly of a steam-driven hammer.
  • * (rfdate) [http://www.topforge.co.uk/Magazines/Hammer2.htm]
    • Those familiar with drop forging are accustomed to sizing drop hammers as 1 ton or 5 ton or whatever. This measure of the size is simply the weight of the tup . The total weight of the helve of No 2 is about 6.4 tons.
  • * (rfdate) [http://www.key-to-steel.com/Articles/Art168.htm]
    • This is the modern equivalent of smith forging where the limited force of the blacksmith has been replaced by the mechanical or steam hammer. The process can be carried out by open forging where the hammer is replaced by a tup and the metal is manipulated manually on an anvil.
  • * (rfdate) [http://www.steelcorp.com/term.htm]
    • Rockwell hardness test: A method of measuring hardness. The hardness is expressed as a number related to the depth of the residual penetration. A test for determining the hardness of a material based on the depth of penetration of a specified penetrator in to the specimen under certain arbitrarily fixed condition of test. A hardness test where the loss in kinetic energy of a falling diamond tipped metal ‘tup ’, absorbed by indentation upon impact of the tup on the metal being tested is indicated by the height of rebound.
    Synonyms
    * (male sheep) ram

    Verb

    (tupp)
  • To mate; used of a ram mating with a ewe.
  • *
    • Even now, now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe.
  • * (rfdate) The Langley Chase Flock - explanation of tupping
    • Tupping is the term used for when the rams cover the ewes. For our flock, this takes place in November when the ewes naturally come into season.
  • (slang) To have sex with, to bonk, etc.
  • * 2001 , Simon Hawke, A Mystery of Errors [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0812564545&id=iu5CUMiNTUMC&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&dq=%22tup+her%22&sig=VIxFsnbUvckFmygYjq6Shc8r9bg]
    • I love her well enough to tup her, I suppose. A dangerous bit of business, that. She is as fertile as a bloody alluvial plain.
  • * 2003 , Pierre Delattre, Woman on the Cross [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0966861256&id=oc7an025f9MC&pg=PA75&lpg=PA75&dq=%22tup+her%22&sig=rbHJq6-MuXoPp0MAdXGJ28SIGdI]
    • I was the one who convinced her you would not tup her, and that if you did you would never lie with her against her will.
  • (regional English, slang) To butt: said of a ram.
    • Synonyms
    * (to have sex with)
    External links
    The Langley Chase Flock – explanation of tupping
    References
    * 1902: Websters: - to butt. * 1986: Concise Oxford: - hammer.

    Etymology 2

    Short for .

    Noun

    (-)
  • Two pence.

    • Anagrams

    * * ----

    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

    Anagrams

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