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  2. Cup - Wikipedia

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    A cup is an open-top vessel (container) used to hold liquids for drinking, typically with a flattened hemispherical shape, and often with a capacity of about 100–250 millilitres (3–8 US fl oz). [1] [2] Cups may be made of pottery (including porcelain), glass, metal, [3] wood, stone, polystyrene, plastic, lacquerware, or other

  3. Cup (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The cup is a cooking measure of volume, commonly associated with cooking and serving sizes.In the US, it is traditionally equal to one-half US pint (236.6 ml). Because actual drinking cups may differ greatly from the size of this unit, standard measuring cups may be used, with a metric cup commonly being rounded up to 240 millilitres (legal cup), but 250 ml is also used depending on the ...

  4. Bra size - Wikipedia

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    The term "cup" was not used to describe bras until 1916 [5] when two patents were filed. [6]In October 1932, S.H. Camp and Company was the first to use letters of the alphabet (A, B, C and D) to indicate cup size, although the letters represented how pendulous the breasts were and not their volume.

  5. Here’s What the Lines on a Solo Cup Are Actually For

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    What Solo cup lines REALLY mean. Solo shares that alcohol measurements were not an intentional design element when it comes to the widely used plastic cup. Instead, the company recommends other ...

  6. Cancer of unknown primary origin - Wikipedia

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    Cancer of unknown primary origin (CUP) is a cancer that is determined to be at the metastatic stage at the time of diagnosis, but a primary tumor cannot be identified. A diagnosis of CUP requires a clinical picture consistent with metastatic disease and one or more biopsy results inconsistent with a tumor cancer.

  7. Pythagorean cup - Wikipedia

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    A Pythagorean cup (also known as a Pythagoras cup, Greedy Cup, Cup of Justice or Tantalus cup) is a practical joke device in a form of a drinking cup, credited to Pythagoras of Samos. When it is filled beyond a certain point, a siphoning effect causes the cup to drain its entire contents through the base.

  8. What is the meaning of "Auld Lang Syne"? - AOL

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    What does "we'll take a cup of kindness yet" mean? Think spirits, but not the ghost kind: "A cup of kindness" refers to raising a toast to loved ones, kindness, and overall good vibes.

  9. Copper units of pressure - Wikipedia

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    While CUP and LUP numbers were intended to be comparable to the crushing power of a given pressure in psi (lbf/in 2), the numbers are not equivalent.Since a longer duration, lower pressure pulse can crush the cylinder as much as a shorter duration, higher pressure pulse, CUP and LUP pressures frequently register lower than actual peak pressures (as measured by a transducer) by up to 20%.