cup
n. குடிகலம், கிண்ணம், குவளை, பரிசுக்கலம், குழிவு, பள்ளம், கிண்ணம் போன்ற அமைவு, குழிவுடைய பகுதி, குவளை நிறை அளவு, கிண்ண நீர்மம், குடிகலத்திலுள்ள பொருள், குடிகலவை, ஊழின் பங்கு, வரற்பாலது, இன்ப அளவு, துன்ப அளவு, (வி.) கிண்ணம் போலக் குழிவாக்கு, குவளையில் வை, குழிவுறஞ்சியினால் குருதி உறிஞ்சவை, குழிவாகு.
Cup (kp), n. Etym: [AS. cuppe, LL. cuppa cup; cf. L. cupa tub, cask; cf. also Gr. k pit, hollow, OSlav. kupa cup. Cf. Coop, Cupola, Cowl a water vessel, and Cob, Coif, Cop.] 1. A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and the like. 2. The contents of such a vessel; a cupful. Give me a cup of sack, boy. Shak. 3. pl. Defn: Repeated potations; social or exessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry. Thence from cups to civil broils. Milton. 4. That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion. O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. Matt. xxvi. 39. 5. Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower. The cowslip's golden cup no more I see. Shenstone. 6. (Med.) Defn: A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping. Cup and ball, a familiar toy of children, having a cup on the top of a piece of wood to which, a ball is attached by a cord; the ball, being thrown up, is to be caught in the cup; bilboquet. Milman.- Cup and can, familiar companions. -- Dry cup, Wet cup (Med.), a cup used for dry or wet cupping. See under Cupping. -- To be in one's cups, to be drunk. Cup, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cupped (kpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Cupping.] 1. To supply with cups of wine. [R.] Cup us, till the world go round. Shak. 2. (Surg.) Defn: To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping. 3. (Mech.) Defn: To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw.