Cup vs Bomb - What's the difference?
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A concave vessel for drinking from, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A US unit of liquid measure equal to 8 fluid ounces, 1/16 of a US gallon, or 236.5882365 ml.
A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
* , chapter=5
, title= A contest for which a cup is awarded.
(golf) A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.
(US) A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia. (for UK usage see box)
One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast, used as a measurement of size.
(mathematics) The symbol denoting union and similar operations (confer cap).
A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.
(ultimate frisbee) A defensive style characterized by a three player near defense cupping'' the thrower; ''or those three players.
A flexible concave membrane used to temporarily attach a handle or hook to a flat surface by means of suction (suction cup).
Anything shaped like a cup.
* Shenstone
(medicine, historical) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.
* Bible, Matthew xxvi. 39
To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.
To hold something in cupped hands.
(obsolete) To supply with cups of wine.
* Shakespeare
(transitive, surgery, archaic) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping.
(engineering) To make concave or in the form of a cup.
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon.
* 2008 , Sidney Gelb, Foreign Service Agent ,
# (label) The atomic bomb.
# (label) Events or conditions that have a speedy destructive effect.
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, volume=190, issue=20, page=13, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (label) A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
* 1997 , Eric L. Flom, Chaplin in the Sound Era: An Analysis of the Seven Talkies ,
* 2010 , (Tony Curtis), (Peter Golenbock), American Prince: My Autobiography ,
* 2011 , Elizabeth Barfoot Christian, Rock Brands: Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture ,
# A car in poor condition.
#* 2005 August 6, Warm affection for a rust-bucket past , [http://www.smh.com.au/news/words/warm-affection-for-a-rustbucket-past/2005/08/04/1123125839592.html]
#* 2010 , Rebecca James, Beautiful Malice ,
#* 2011 , Amarinda Jones, Seducing Celestine ,
A large amount of money, a fortune.
* 2009 , Matthew Vierling, The Blizzard ,
* 2010 , Liz Young, Fair Game ,
* 2011 , Michael R. Häack, Passport: A Novel of International Intrigue ,
* 2011 , Bibe, A Victim ,
(label) Something highly effective or attractive.
# A success; the bomb.
# A very attractive woman; a bombshell.
# An action or statement that causes a strong reaction.
# A long forward pass.
# (label) A jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs, for maximum splashing.
(label) A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.
* 2008 , François Cardarelli, Materials Handbook: A Concise Desktop Reference ,
(label) A great booming noise; a hollow sound.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
(intransitive) To attack using one or more s; to bombard.
* 2000 , Canadian Peace Research Institute, Canadian Peace Research and Education Association, Peace Research , Volumes 32-33,
* 2005 , Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present ,
* 2007 , David Parker, Hertfordshire Children in War and Peace, 1914-1939 ,
(slang) To fail dismally.
* 1992 June, Lynn Norment, Arsenio Hall: Claiming the Late-night Crown'', in '' ,
* 2000 , Carmen Infantino, Jon B. Cooke (interviewer), The Carmen Infantino Interview'', in Jon B. Cooke, Neal Adams, ''Comic Book Artist Collection ,
* 2008 , Erik Sternberger, The Long and Winding Road ,
(informal) To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs.
(obsolete) To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
(slang) To cover an area in many graffiti tags.
* 2009 , Scape Martinez, GRAFF: The Art & Technique of Graffiti (page 124)
(informal, AU) to add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
(slang) Great, awesome.
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As nouns the difference between cup and bomb
is that cup is cup while bomb is (informal) the atomic bomb; the capacity to launch a nuclear attack often used with “the”.As a verb cup
is to not attend a course, a class without permission of the teacher or cup can be to temporarily or permanently cease to provide (electricity or water supply) or cup can be to switch off (a breaker or fuse).cup
English
(wikipedia cup)Noun
(en noun)T time, passage=
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner.
- the cup of an acorn
- The cowslip's golden cup no more I see.
- O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.
Derived terms
* bra cup * coffee cup * cupcake * Cup Final * cuppa * cup size * egg cup, eggcup * teacup * world cupCoordinate terms
* mug * pannikinVerb
- Cup your hands and I'll pour some rice into them.
- He cupped the ball carefully in his hands.
- Cup us, till the world go round.
- to cup the end of a screw
Anagrams
* * * 1000 English basic words ----bomb
English
(wikipedia bomb)Noun
(en noun)page 629,
- The size of the ground hole crater from the blast indicates it was a bomb .
Martin Lukacs
Canada becoming launch-pad of a global tar sands and oil shale frenzy, passage=If Alberta’s reserves are a carbon bomb , this global expansion of tar sands and oil shale exploitation amounts to an escalating emissions arms race, the unlocking of a subterranean cache of weapons of mass ecological destruction.}}
page 277,
- Projection problems plagued Countess? London premiere on January 5, 1967, Jerry Epstein recalled, and it was perhaps an omen, for reaction by critics afterward was swift and immediate: The film was a bomb .
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- The movie was a bomb and so was my next film, Balboa , in which I played a scheming real estate tycoon.
page 11,
- The movie was a bomb , but it put the band before an even larger audience.
- Nowadays, an old bomb simply won’t pass the inspection.
page 19,
- We?ve got the money and it just feels ridiculous to let you drive around in that old bomb .
page 49,
- After two weeks of driving it she knew the car was a bomb and she did not need anyone saying it to her. The only one allowed to pick on her car was her. Piece of crap car
page 133,
- When Kiley presented Blackpool with the custom shotgun, he said, “This must?ve cost a bomb .”
page 136,
- ‘You?ve already spent a bomb !’
- ‘Not on'' it, Sal — ''under it. Presents!’ As we eventually staggered up to bed, Sally said to me, ‘I hope to God he?s not been spending a bomb on presents, too.’
page 47,
- The kids cost a bomb to feed, they eat all the time.
page 38,
- He had recently exchanged his old bike for a new, three speed racer, which cost a bomb and the weekly payment were becoming difficult, with the dangers of repossession.
page 276,
- The process consisted in preparing the metal by metallothermic reduction of titanium tetrachloride with sodium metal in a steel bomb .
- A pillar of irona great bomb in the chamber beneath.
Usage notes
* The diametrical slang meanings are somewhat distinguishable by the article. For “a success”, the phrase is generally the bomb''. Otherwise ''bomb can mean “a failure”.Synonyms
* (attractive woman) bombshell * (car) rustbucket * (large amount of money) fortune, packet, pretty pennyDerived terms
* A-bomb * atom bomb * atomic bomb * barrel bomb * bomb squad * car bomb * dirty bomb * E-bomb * F-bomb * gay bomb * H-bomb * hydrogen bomb * neutron bomb * paper bomb * petrol bomb * pipe bomb * sex bombSee also
* lemonVerb
(en verb)page 65,
- 15 May: US jets bombed' air-defence sites north of Mosul, as the Russian Foreign Ministry accused the US and Britain of intentionally ' bombing civilian targets. (AP)
page 421,
- Italy had bombed' cities in the Ethiopian war; Italy and Germany had ' bombed civilians in the Spanish Civil War; at the start of World War II German planes dropped bombs on Rotterdam in Holland, Coventry in England, and elsewhere.
page 59,
- Essendon was bombed in the early hours of 3 September 1916; a few houses and part of the church were destroyed, and two sisters killed.
page 74,
- So Hall quit the job, turned in the company car and went to Chicago, where as a stand-up comic he bombed' several times before he was discovered by Nancy Wilson, who took him on the road — where he ' bombed again before a room of Republicans—and then to Los Angeles.
page 12,
- Carmen: Then it bombed' and it ' bombed badly. After a few more issues I asked Mike what was happening and he said, “I?m trying everything I can but it?s just not working.” So I took him off the book and he left. That was it.
page 62,
- She was the reason why he bombed the interview. He just couldn?t seem to get her out of his mind.
- (Ben Jonson)
- It is often used to collect other writer's tags, and future plans for bombing and piecing.
Derived terms
* bomber * bomb outAdjective
(en adjective)- Have you tried the new tacos from that restaurant? They're pretty bomb !