(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.
Scup
Definition:
(n.) A swing.
(n.) A marine sparoid food fish (Stenotomus chrysops, or S. argyrops), common on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It appears bright silvery when swimming in the daytime, but shows broad blackish transverse bands at night and when dead. Called also porgee, paugy, porgy, scuppaug.
Example Sentences:
(1) Immunoblot analysis with antibodies to P-450 forms from a teleost (scup) showed the presence of cross-reacting proteins in control fish, presumed counterparts to the scup forms.
(2) E2 2-hydroxylase activity per nanomole cytochrome P-450 was reduced in scup treated with beta-naphthoflavone, which induces the hydrocarbon hydroxylase cytochrome P-450E.
(3) Cytochrome P-450A had a requirement for conspecific (scup) NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase and all reconstituted activities examined were stimulated by the addition of purified scup cytochrome b5.
(4) Estradiol (E2) metabolites formed in vitro by microsomes from the marine teleosts winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus) and scup (Stenotomus chrysops) included at least seven products detected by thin-layer chromatography (TLC) and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).
(5) Untreated Poeciliopsis evidently contain a counterpart to scup cytochrome P-450E, the major polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-inducible from in scup.
(6) MAb 1-12-3 recognized P-450E induced by 3,3',4,4',5,5'-hexachlorobiphenyl and by polychlorinated biphenyl mixtures in scup, and a single band induced by BNF or 3-methylcholanthrene (MC) in microsomes of other teleosts, including two trout species, killifish and winter flounder.
(7) The maximal power generation was correspondingly about 50% greater in scup than in carp (71 W kg-1 at 10 degrees C and 134 W kg-1 at 20 degrees C; Q10 = 1.88).
(8) Polyclonal antibodies to scup P450A were shown to detect proteins in a number of teleosts.
(9) Ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase (EROD) activity, aldrin epoxidase (AE) activity, cytochrome P-450 content, and levels of cytochrome P-450E (the major BNF-inducible P-450 form and primary EROD catalyst in scup) or its homologues were measured in hepatic microsomes isolated from Fundulus heteroclitus, scup (Stenotomus chrysops) and brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) treated with beta-naphthoflavone (BNF) or phenobarbital (PB).
(10) Here we describe the presence and localization of P450IA1 in organs of scup sampled directly from an environment contaminated by chlorinated biphenyls and bibenzofurans, the outer New Bedford Harbor of Massachusetts.
(11) These results demonstrate that PCB congeners with ortho-chlorine substitution, and which are effective inducers of AHH and EROD activity in mammals, are ineffective, at the doses tested, as inducers in the teleost scup.
(12) At any given swimming speed, V was higher in carp than in scup because carp had a larger sarcomere length excursion and higher tail-beat frequency.
(13) Recently, we described the cellular localization of cytochrome P450IA1 (P450E) induced in 10 organs or organ systems of the fish, Stenotomus chrysops (scup) treated with 3,3',4,4'-tetrachlorobiphenyl or with 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzofuran.
(14) The smaller sarcomere excursion in scup is primarily associated with using a less undulatory style of swimming (i.e.
(15) Microsomal ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase and aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase activities, catalytic functions of scup P450E, were induced in parallel with P450 content.
(16) The cDNA probe was also shown to hybridize with induced mRNA of brook trout, scup, garter snake, painted turtle, and rat demonstrating the suitability of the probe for examining induction of mRNA in various species.
(17) Conversely, MAb 1-7-1 to rat cytochrome P-450MC-B had little effect on AHH activity of scup cytochrome P-450E, and did not recognize cytochrome P-450E in radioimmunoassay nor in an immunoblot.
(18) Monoclonal antibody (MAb) 1-12-3 generated against liver cytochrome P-450E (P-450E), an aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase of the marine fish Stenotomus chrysops (scup), reacted only with P-450E when tested in immunoblot analysis with five P-450 fractions from scup liver.
(19) Forms of cytochrome P-450 have been purified from several teleost species, including scup (Stenotomus chrysops), rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri), and cod (Gadus morhua).
(20) The levels of anti-P450A cross-reacting protein were greater in mature female than in male flounder, but as with 6 beta-OHase activity, the content of this protein was not sexually differentiated in scup.