Upping vs Cupping - What's the difference?
upping | cupping |
The act of increasing something.
* 1942 , Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, Official Report of Debates, House of Commons
* 1943 , United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program, Investigation of the national defense program
(medicine, archaic) The operation of drawing blood to or from the surface of the person by forming a partial vacuum over the spot.
(medicine, archaic) A similar operation for drawing pus from an abscess.
(medicine) Fire cupping, a traditional therapeutic treatment called in which heated cupping glasses are applied to the skin, supposedly to draw blood towards the surface.
The taking of a small amount of a beverage such as tea or coffee into the mouth in order to taste it; a session where this is done.
As verbs the difference between upping and cupping
is that upping is while cupping is .As nouns the difference between upping and cupping
is that upping is the act of increasing something while cupping is (medicine|archaic) the operation of drawing blood to or from the surface of the person by forming a partial vacuum over the spot.upping
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* swan uppingNoun
(en noun)- He announced, I believe, that it was far better, instead of making uniform uppings of all allowances, to provide for cases where need arose. I have not before me to-night figures as to dependents' allowances paid in other places.
- Yes; I personally believe that we can meet it if we are willing to bear down hard enough and make quickly enough a set of decisions that will lead toward sharp uppings of our production.
