What's the difference between cup and teacup?

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.

Teacup


Definition:

  • (n.) A small cup from which to drink tea.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 2007, Eurostar ran adverts in Belgium for its trains to London depicting a tattooed skinhead urinating into a china teacup.
  • (2) Glitzy Honey Boo Boo's tiny, possibly gay, pet teacup pig.
  • (3) I see the teacup with my eyes, but my brain refuses to send me the teacup message.
  • (4) Compared with working out if there is a real threat of nuclear war from the world's last full-dress totalitarian state, this may seem like a storm in a British teacup.
  • (5) Was it the greatest scandal in modern science or a storm in a teacup whipped up by climate sceptics and an uncritical media?
  • (6) Phillips, who described the issue as "a storm in a teacup", said the defence of fair comment was "one of the most difficult areas of the law of defamation".
  • (7) In his reading of the situation, his history with the Klan is a storm in a teacup, something the media only brings up to discredit his current criticism of international Zionism.
  • (8) I find these debates about reading as enjoyably incensing as anyone – and, just to be clear, I deplore the restrictions placed on prisoners' access to books , which seems less of a storm in a teacup and more of a violation of basic human rights.
  • (9) While the supreme court agreed in its judgment this morning with the solicitor advocate for the defendants that the case was "a storm in a teacup", they noted: "The storm is considerable.
  • (10) I remember feeling hungry; they gave us just a teacup.
  • (11) To take away those unique courses is to take away the heart of Soas.” Baroness Amos: I was taken aback when I found out I was the first black female head of a university Read more But the row was described as a “storm in a teacup” by a university spokesperson, who said the letter had been sent in error, and although cuts and savings did have to be made at Soas, no decisions had yet been taken.
  • (12) There, his mother, in her mid-30s, dressed in a spotless white blouse, and with a Lady Diana-like haircut, was reading a newspaper and sipping from a genteel white teacup.
  • (13) Half-udder comparisons were made using 56 cows for 2 months, in an experiment involving high bacterial challenge, to assess the combined effects of 5 min overmilking and pulsation failure (resulting from the use of shortened teacup liners) on teat condition and mastitis.
  • (14) But usually comics ride out these teacup-sized Twitterstorms - or indeed their real-world equivalents.
  • (15) Nobody wants a commemorative teacup of Kate on a stepladder doing the bathroom.
  • (16) The classic appearance is that of milk of calcium, seen as linear, curvilinear, or teacup-shaped particles on horizontal-beam lateral views and as ill-defined smudges on vertical-beam craniocaudal views.
  • (17) For those who had never heard of Lord Rennard , in the teacup of the Lib Dem party he is a storming figure.
  • (18) Something is terribly wrong with the way this incident has been shaped and spun into nothing more than an unfortunate mishap on a holiday weekend, like a broken teacup in the rented cottage."
  • (19) Someone informed me in the comments that Ruby has been engaged in a "Twitter row" but I just googled it and it sounds like a storm in a teacup.
  • (20) "I would say to you this is a bit of a storm in a teacup.

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