What's the difference between cup and tup?

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.

Tup


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To butt, as a ram does.
  • (v. t. & i.) To cover; -- said of a ram.
  • (n.) A ram.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) apparently not to be due to any mutation such as typ, tup, tmp, per or tum.
  • (2) Essentially all mutants (called tup) selected in this way required dTMP for growth in the presence of the two drugs, but none required dTMP in the absence of the drugs.
  • (3) To achieve a high conception rate, tupping should take place under supervision.
  • (4) In this study, the composition of the catheter had no bearing on subsequent stricture formation following TUP.
  • (5) The greatest number of prolapses occurred in an upland flock of greyface ewes mated with Suffolk tups with 50 cases among 700 ewes (7.1 per cent) and the highest prevalence was in an upland Scottish blackface flock of ewes bred with Suffolk tups with 15.2 per cent (35 cases among 230 ewes).
  • (6) The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) correlated significantly with the total urinary protein (TUP) in 24-hour urine collections in patients with glomerular disease (p less than 0.05 to p less than 0.001).
  • (7) The sot1 mutation specifically blocks the uptake of dTMP into tup strains.
  • (8) [3H]ATP incorporation was Mg2+-dependent, sensitive to ribonuclease and EDTA and resistant to deoxyribonuclease and actinomycin D. There was no incorporation of [3H]UTP or [3H]dTTP and addition of TUP, CTP and GTP did not increase the incorporation of [3H]ATP.
  • (9) 5.01pm GMT Some MPs’ comments on Twitter: Michael Fabricant (@Mike_Fabricant) No question Andrew Mitchell has tupped the ante considerably.
  • (10) At puberty, 40 days of age, the excretion of TUP corresponded to the output of alpha2u-globulin.
  • (11) From 100 to 200 days of age, TUP remained constant while the excretion of albumin steadily increased.
  • (12) A short description is given of the techniques for percutaneous transhepatic (PTP) and transumbilical (TUP) portal Venous catheterization and their use for direct selective catheterization of the portal vein and its tributaries.
  • (13) The sot1 mutation maps between rad1 and the centromere of chromosome XVI, and is unlinked to any of the tup mutations.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Herdwick ram is prepared for showing at the annual Keswick Tup fair.
  • (15) Renal function was assessed by daily total urinary protein (TUP), plasma creatinine concentration [(Cr)p] and creatinine clearance rate.
  • (16) Thereafter, the excretion of albumin and TUP increased markedly whereas alpha2u excretion remained constant.
  • (17) Thirteen patients with urethral stenoses of different etiopathology underwent TUP with an angioplasty balloon catheter.
  • (18) After 150--180 days of age, the concentrations of alpha2u and albumin in TUP were approximately equal.
  • (19) Positive correlations were found between GSC and SBP and TUP.
  • (20) Because latex rubber catheters have been implicated in urethral stricture formation, the incidence of urethral strictures following transurethral prostatectomy (TUP) and subsequent catheterisation with latex rubber or polyvinyl chloride catheters was compared.

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