What does cup mean?

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[n] a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle(he put the cup back in the saucer the handle of the cup was missing)[v] form into the shape of a cup(She cupped her hands)[n] the quantity a cup will hold(he drank a cup of coffee he borrowed a cup of sugar)[v] put

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[n] a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle
(he put the cup back in the saucer the handle of the cup was missing)

[v] form into the shape of a cup
(She cupped her hands)

[n] the quantity a cup will hold
(he drank a cup of coffee he borrowed a cup of sugar)

[v] put into a cup
(cup the milk)

[n] any cup-shaped concavity
(bees filled the waxen cups with honey he wore a jock strap with a metal cup the cup of her bra)

[v] treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin

[n] a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces

[n] cup-shaped plant organ

[n] a punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl

[n] the hole (or metal container in the hole) on a golf green
(he swore as the ball rimmed the cup and rolled away put the flag back in the cup)

[n] a large metal vessel with two handles that is awarded as a trophy to the winner of a competition
(the school kept the cups is a special glass case)

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The first recorded dictionaries date back to Sumerian times around 2300 BCE, in the form of bilingual dictionaries, and the oldest surviving monolingual dictionaries are Chinese dictionaries c. 3rd century BCE. The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written in 1604, and monolingual dictionaries in other languages also began appearing in Europe at around this time. The systematic study of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest arose as a 20th-century enterprise, called lexicography, and largely initiated by Ladislav Zgusta. The birth of the new discipline was not without controversy, with the practical dictionary-makers being sometimes accused by others of having an "astonishing" lack of method and critical-self reflection.