Main Difference
The main difference between Cap and Cup is that the Cap is a brimless head covering, sometimes made with a visor and Cup is a vessel intended for an individual to use for drinking wine, water, or other beverage.
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Cap
A cap is a form of headgear. Caps have crowns that fit very close to the head. They are typically designed for warmth and, when including a visor, blocking sunlight from the eyes. They come in many shapes and sizes.
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Cup
A cup is a small container used for drinking and carrying drinks. It can be made of wood, plastic, glass, clay, metal, stone, china or other materials, and it might have a stem, handles or other adornments. Cups are used for quenching thirst across a wide range of cultures and social classes, and different styles of cups may be used for different liquids or in different situations.Cups have been used for thousands of years for the purpose of carrying food and drink, as well as for decoration. They are mostly used for drinking, though. They are used in certain cultural rituals and to hold objects not intended for drinking such as coins.
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Cap (noun)
A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
“The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.”
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Cap (noun)
A special hat to indicate rank, occupation etc.
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Cap (noun)
An academic mortarboard
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Cap (noun)
A protective cover or seal
“He took the cap off the bottle and splashed himself with some cologne.”
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Cap (noun)
A crown for covering a tooth
“He had golden caps on his teeth.”
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Cap (noun)
The summit of a mountain etc.
“There was snow on the cap of the mountain.”
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Cap (noun)
An artificial upper limit or ceiling
“We should put a cap on the salaries, to keep them under control.”
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Cap (noun)
The top part of a mushroom
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Cap (noun)
A small amount of gunpowder in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun
“Billy spent all morning firing caps with his friends, re-enacting storming the beach at Normandy.”
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Cap (noun)
A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives
“He wired the cap to the bundle of dynamite, then detonated it remotely.”
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Cap (noun)
A bullet used to shoot someone.
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Cap (noun)
An international appearance
“Rio Ferdinand won his 50th cap for England in a game against Sweden.”
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Cap (noun)
The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
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Cap (noun)
A respectful uncovering of the head.
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Cap (noun)
The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
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Cap (noun)
The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.
“the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate”
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Cap (noun)
Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
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Cap (noun)
A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.
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Cap (noun)
A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
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Cap (noun)
A large size of writing paper.
“flat cap; foolscap; legal cap”
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Cap (noun)
Capitalization.
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Cap (noun)
An uppercase letter.
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Cap (noun)
capacitor
“Parasitic caps.”
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Cap (noun)
A recording or screenshot.
“Anyone have a cap of the games last night?”
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Cap (verb)
To cover or seal with a cap
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Cap (verb)
To award a cap as a mark of distinction etc.
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Cap (verb)
To lie over or on top of something
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Cap (verb)
To surpass or outdo
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Cap (verb)
To set an upper limit on something
“cap wages.”
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Cap (verb)
To make something even more wonderful at the end.
“That really capped my day.”
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Cap (verb)
To select a player to play for a specified side
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Cap (verb)
To shoot (someone) with a firearm.
“If he don’t get outta my hood, I’m gonna cap his ass.”
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Cap (verb)
to select to play for the national team.
“Peter Shilton is the most capped English footballer.”
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Cap (verb)
To uncover the head respectfully.
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Cap (verb)
To deprive of a cap.
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Cap (verb)
To convert text to uppercase.
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Cap (verb)
To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.
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Cup (noun)
A concave vessel for drinking from, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
“Pour the tea into the cup.”
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Cup (noun)
The contents of said vessel; a cupful.
“I drank two cups of water but still felt thirsty.”
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Cup (noun)
A customary unit of measure
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Cup (noun)
A US unit of liquid measure equal to 8 fluid ounces (1/16 of a US gallon; 236.5882365 mL) or 240 mL.
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Cup (noun)
A Canadian unit of measure equal to 8 imperial ounces (1/20 imperial gallon; 227.3 mL) or 250 mL.
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Cup (noun)
A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
“The World Cup is awarded to the winner of a quadrennial football tournament.”
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Cup (noun)
A contest for which a cup is awarded.
“The World Cup is the world’s most widely watched sporting event.”
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Cup (noun)
The main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league.
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Cup (noun)
A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.
“The ball just misses the cup.”
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Cup (noun)
Any of various sweetened alcoholic drinks.
“cider cup; gin cup; claret cup”
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Cup (noun)
A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia. (for UK usage see box)
“Players of contact sports are advised to wear a cup.”
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Cup (noun)
One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast, used as a measurement of size.
“The cups are made of a particularly uncomfortable material.”
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Cup (noun)
The symbol cup denoting union and similar operations (confer cap).
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Cup (noun)
A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.
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Cup (noun)
(defensive style characterized by a three player near defense cupping the thrower; or those three players.
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Cup (noun)
A flexible concave membrane used to temporarily attach a handle or hook to a flat surface by means of suction (suction cup).
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Cup (noun)
Anything shaped like a cup.
“the cup of an acorn”
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Cup (noun)
A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
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Cup (noun)
That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.
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Cup (verb)
To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.
“Cup your hands and I’ll pour some rice into them.”
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Cup (verb)
To hold something in cupped hands.
“He cupped the ball carefully in his hands.”
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Cup (verb)
To supply with cups of wine.
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Cup (verb)
To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping.
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Cup (verb)
To make concave or in the form of a cup.
“to cup the end of a screw”
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Cap (noun)
a kind of soft, flat hat without a brim and typically with a peak
“a man wearing a raincoat and a flat cap”
“her cap of dark hair”
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Cap (noun)
a kind of soft, close-fitting head covering worn for a particular purpose
“a bathing cap”
“a shower cap”
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Cap (noun)
a cap awarded as a sign of membership of a particular sports team, especially a national team
“he has won three caps for Scotland”
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Cap (noun)
a player to whom a cap is awarded
“a former naval officer and rugby cap”
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Cap (noun)
an academic mortar board
“school-leavers in cap and gown”
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Cap (noun)
the top of a bird’s head when distinctively coloured.
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Cap (noun)
a protective lid or cover for an object such as a bottle, the point of a pen, or a camera lens
“a glass bottle with a screw cap”
“a lens cap from a camera”
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Cap (noun)
an artificial protective covering for a tooth.
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Cap (noun)
an upper limit imposed on spending or borrowing
“he raised the cap on local authority spending”
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Cap (noun)
a contraceptive diaphragm.
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Cap (noun)
the broad upper part of the fruiting body of most mushrooms and toadstools, at the top of a stem and bearing gills or pores.
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Cap (noun)
short for percussion cap
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Cap (noun)
short for capitalization
“small-cap stocks”
“mid-cap companies”
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Cap (verb)
put a lid or cover on
“he capped his pen”
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Cap (verb)
form a covering layer or topmost part of
“snow-capped mountains”
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Cap (verb)
put an artificial protective covering on (a tooth)
“his smile revealed perfectly capped teeth”
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Cap (verb)
provide a fitting climax or conclusion to
“he capped a memorable season by becoming champion of champions”
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Cap (verb)
follow or reply to (a story, remark, or joke) by producing a better one
“he prayed no wit would cap his remark with some repartee”
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Cap (verb)
place a limit or restriction on (prices, expenditure, or borrowing)
“council budgets will be capped”
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Cap (verb)
be chosen as a member of a particular sports team, especially a national one
“he was capped ten times by England”
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Cap (verb)
confer a university degree on.
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Cup (noun)
a small bowl-shaped container for drinking from, typically having a handle.
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Cup (noun)
the contents of a cup
“a cup of tea”
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Cup (noun)
a measure of capacity used in cooking, equal to half a US pint (0.237 litre)
“a cup of butter”
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Cup (noun)
(in church use) a chalice used at the Eucharist
“Latin was replaced by the vernacular, and the cup was offered to the laity”
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Cup (noun)
one of the suits in a tarot pack.
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Cup (noun)
an ornamental trophy in the form of a cup, usually made of gold or silver and having a stem and two handles, awarded as a prize in a sports contest.
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Cup (noun)
a contest in which the winners are awarded a cup
“playing in the Cup is the best thing ever”
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Cup (noun)
a cup-shaped thing.
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Cup (noun)
either of the two parts of a bra shaped to contain or support one breast
“she had grown from an A to a C cup in just six months”
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Cup (noun)
the hole on a putting green, or the metal container in it
“the ball bounced out of the cup”
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Cup (noun)
a mixed drink made from fruit juices and typically containing wine or cider
“the bars offered large glasses of white wine cup”
“a non-alcoholic fruit cup”
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Cup (verb)
form (one’s hand or hands) into the curved shape of a cup
“‘Hey!’ Dad shouted, with his hands cupped around his mouth”
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Cup (verb)
place the curved hand or hands around
“he cupped her face in his hands”
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Cup (verb)
bleed (someone) by using a glass in which a partial vacuum is formed by heating
“Dr Ross ordered me to be cupped”