Слово англійською: cup
Іменник
Переклад cup українською: ча́шка, філіжа́нка, ку́холь, (пла́стиковий) стака́нчик, ку́бок
Детальний опис
- [countable] a small container that is like a bowl in shape, usually with a handle, used for drinking tea, coffee, etc.
- He filled the cup with water.
- a coffee cup
- a cup and saucer
- a plastic/paper cup
see also Dixie Cup™, loving cup, sippy cup
- [countable] the contents of a cup
- She drank the whole cup.
- cup of something Would you like a cup of tea?
- [countable] a gold or silver cup on a stem, often with two handles, that is given as a prize in a competition
- She's won several cups for skating.
- He lifted the cup (= won) for the fifth time this year.
- [singular]
(usually Cup)
a sports competition in which a cup is given as a prize- the World Cup
- The team finished runners-up in the league and cup.
- [countable] a unit for measuring quantity used in cooking mainly in the US; a metal or plastic container used to measure this quantity
- two cups of flour and half a cup of butter
see also measuring cup - [countable] a thing that has the shape of a cup
- The device has a suction cup to attach it to the wall.
see also egg cup - [countable] one of the two parts of a bra that cover the breasts
- [countable, uncountable] a drink made from wine mixed with, for example, fruit juice see also fruit cup
- [countable] (in golf ) the hole on the green, or the metal container inside it, that you must get the ball into
- [countable] (North American English) a piece of plastic that a man wears over his sex organs to protect them while he is playing a sport compare box (10)
Word OriginOld English: from popular Latin cuppa, probably from Latin cupa ‘tub’.
Idioms - (old-fashioned) having drunk too much alcohol
- He gets very maudlin when he's in his cups.
not somebody’s cup of tea
- (informal) not what somebody likes or is interested in
- An evening at the opera isn't everyone's cup of tea.
- He's nice enough but not really my cup of tea.
there’s many a slip ’twixt cup and lip
- (saying) nothing is completely certain until it really happens because things can easily go wrong