What's the difference between cup and mug?

Cup


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) The contents of such a vessel; a cupful.
  • (n.) Repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry.
  • (n.) That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.
  • (n.) Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower.
  • (n.) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
  • (v. t.) To supply with cups of wine.
  • (v. t.) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping.
  • (v. t.) To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) City badly missed Yaya Touré, on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations, and have not won a league match since last April when he has been missing.
  • (2) Patrice Evra Evra Handed a five-match international ban for his part in the France squad’s mutiny against Raymond Domenech at the 2010 World Cup, it took Evra almost a year to force his way back in.
  • (3) Having been knocked out of the League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup before Christmas, they lost an FA Cup fourth-round replay at West Brom on 1 February.
  • (4) Robben said: "We've got that match, the Fifa Club World Cup, all those games to look forward to.
  • (5) One is that the issue of whether the World Cup should go ahead in Russia and Qatar still firmly remains on the table.
  • (6) If Del Bosque really want to win this World Cup thingymebob, then he has got to tell Iker Casillas that the jig is up, correct?
  • (7) We performed a prospective study on 68 eyes of 68 patients to compare the vertical cup-disk ratio obtained with the video-ophthalmograph to that obtained with manual analysis of black-and-white stereoscopic photographs.
  • (8) During a single reversal trial of two 2-wk experimental periods, teats of all glands of 12 Holstein cows were subjected to a milking routine conducive to large vacuum fluctuations and flooded teat cups.
  • (9) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Looking on as his Bolton side take on Besiktas during their Uefa Cup group game in Istanbul, Turkey.
  • (11) The number of seats has been reduced from 72,000 to 68,000, with another 12,000 to be added after the Games to meet the 80,000 minimum required in case Japan launches a bid to host the football World Cup.
  • (12) Nwakali, an attacking midfielder, was the player of the Under-17 World Cup in Chile last year, which Nigeria won, and at which his team-mate Chukwueze, a winger, also impressed.
  • (13) Asked whether the 2022 bid should be reopened in the wake of the allegations in the Sunday Times, Cameron said: "There is an inquiry under way, quite rightly, into what happened in terms of the World Cup bid for 2022.
  • (14) The wives and girlfriends who were originally invited to accompany their playing partners on the World Cup tour have had their invitations formally rescinded.
  • (15) Milan’s 4-0 win over Steaua in the European Cup final in 1989 was a great display so I’ve made my players watch the video.
  • (16) That’s why we’ve sponsored the World Cup globally for more than 20 years.
  • (17) A dam Johnson's point may need proving towards Roberto Mancini rather than Manuel Pellegrini, but Manchester City will still be aware of a Sunderland player with a cause in the Capital One Cup final.
  • (18) Nepalese workers building stadiums for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar have been denied leave to attend funerals or visit relatives following the earthquakes in the Himalayan country that have killed more than 8,000 people, its government has revealed.
  • (19) A foretaste of discontent came when Florian Thauvin, the underachieving £13m winger signed from Marseille last summer , was serenaded with chants of ‘You’re not fit to wear the shirt” from away fans during Saturday’s FA Cup defeat at Watford .
  • (20) Rates Six to 12 hours from R$189 (£54) to R$396 (£113), or from £199 by the day; booking policy unlikely to change during the World Cup.

Mug


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of earthen or metal drinking cup, with a handle, -- usually cylindrical and without a lip.
  • (n.) The face or mouth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The effect of ipratropium bromide administered at two dosage levels, 40 and 80 mug, isoproterenol, 150 mug, and placebo using a metered dose inhaler was evaluated in ten adult patients with asthma in a double-blind, crossover study.
  • (2) The angiographic demonstration of veins was similarly improved by the 2 drugs, the effect of 60 mug.
  • (3) Two of them are vitamin K2-less (strains 30 and 73) and are supplemented by menadion natrium bisulfit at concentrations ranging from 0.2 to 10 mug per ml.
  • (4) Decreased levels of receptors for estradiol-17beta, progesterone, and prolactin were found in the tumors remaining after ovariectomy while treatment with the dose (24 mug) of RU 16117, efficient to inhibit tumor growth, has a similar inhibitory effect on the levels of estradiol-17beta and prolactin receptors.
  • (5) Over 90% of gram-negative bacilli, except Proteus spp., were inhibited by 3.12 mug of BB-K8 per ml.
  • (6) The MICs of the remaining anaerobes were 50 mug or less per ml.
  • (7) 6-OHDA administered intraventricularly in doses 200-500 mug caused temporary blockade of ovulation.
  • (8) Gamma rays and 2 low doses of bleomycin gave rise to typical reproductive death in generations 1 and 2 but 100 mug of the drug produced frequent interphase death.
  • (9) 5beta-Dihydrotestosterone was adminstered to mothers for 4 days from Day 12 to Day 15 of pregnancy (prenatal treatment) and to pups for 5 days of postnatal life (neonatal treatment) at daily doses of 1 mg and 200 mug, respectively.
  • (10) Like, I am well, well equipped for this thing.” For their one survival item each, Rogen brought a role of toilet paper, while Franco brought sunglasses and mugs continually for the camera, giving his best Spring Breakers faces while in the buff.
  • (11) 2, and the calf serum were 34 and 73, and 480 mug per mouse respectively.
  • (12) When histamine dihydrochloride (50 mg) was simultaneously injected with the hormone, the effect of small doses of oestradiol (0-0125--0-2 mug) was significantly increased.
  • (13) The detection limit is 0.2 mug PEBG and 0.5 mug p-OH PEBG per ml of serum or urine.
  • (14) TRH, 400 mug was injected prior to and after the medication.
  • (15) plus or minus 4.7) mug per g dry wt (p vs controls equals greater than 0.01).
  • (16) PGF2alpha (150 mug times 2) given on the day of surgery advanced lactogenesis 12 h and rats aborted on day 19.
  • (17) Injection of 1 mug carbachol into the third ventricle produced a small, variable increase in drinking.
  • (18) Acetylcholine (0.1-10 mug) produced a dose-dependent potentiation of oxotremorine tremor in contrast to the multiphasic effect it had on the accompanying hypothermia.
  • (19) Display of the whole pattern of female sexual behaviour was induced in male rats by treatment with 100 mug OB and 2 mg progesterone.
  • (20) Seven patients with reversible obstructive airways disease, who were unsatisfactorily relieved by conventional bronchodilating drugs, were admitted to a 1-year-long therapeutic trial with beclomethasone dipropionate aerosol, 400 mug a day.

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