Main Difference
The main difference between Cup and Glass is that the Cup is a vessel intended for an individual to use for drinking wine, water, or other beverage and amorphous solid that exhibits a glass transition when heated towards the liquid state.
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.
Glass
Glass is a non-crystalline, amorphous solid that is often transparent and has widespread practical, technological, and decorative usage in, for example, window panes, tableware, and optoelectronics. The most familiar, and historically the oldest, types of manufactured glass are “silicate glasses” based on the chemical compound silica (silicon dioxide, or quartz), the primary constituent of sand. The term glass, in popular usage, is often used to refer only to this type of material, which is familiar from use as window glass and in glass bottles. Of the many silica-based glasses that exist, ordinary glazing and container glass is formed from a specific type called soda-lime glass, composed of approximately 75% silicon dioxide (SiO2), sodium oxide (Na2O) from sodium carbonate (Na2CO3), calcium oxide (CaO), also called lime, and several minor additives.
Many applications of silicate glasses derive from their optical transparency, giving rise to their primary use as window panes. Glass will transmit, reflect and refract light; these qualities can be enhanced by cutting and polishing to make optical lenses, prisms, fine glassware, and optical fibers for high speed data transmission by light. Glass can be coloured by adding metallic salts, and can also be painted and printed with vitreous enamels. These qualities have led to the extensive use of glass in the manufacture of art objects and in particular, stained glass windows. Although brittle, silicate glass is extremely durable, and many examples of glass fragments exist from early glass-making cultures. Because glass can be formed or moulded into any shape, it has been traditionally used for vessels: bowls, vases, bottles, jars and drinking glasses. In its most solid forms it has also been used for paperweights, marbles, and beads. When extruded as glass fiber and matted as glass wool in a way to trap air, it becomes a thermal insulating material, and when these glass fibers are embedded into an organic polymer plastic, they are a key structural reinforcement part of the composite material fiberglass. Some objects historically were so commonly made of silicate glass that they are simply called by the name of the material, such as drinking glasses and eyeglasses.
Scientifically, the term “glass” is often defined in a broader sense, encompassing every solid that possesses a non-crystalline (that is, amorphous) structure at the atomic scale and that exhibits a glass transition when heated towards the liquid state. Porcelains and many polymer thermoplastics familiar from everyday use are glasses. These sorts of glasses can be made of quite different kinds of materials than silica: metallic alloys, ionic melts, aqueous solutions, molecular liquids, and polymers. For many applications, like glass bottles or eyewear, polymer glasses (acrylic glass, polycarbonate or polyethylene terephthalate) are a lighter alternative than traditional glass.
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.”
Cup (noun)
The contents of said vessel; a cupful.
“I drank two cups of water but still felt thirsty.”
Cup (noun)
A customary unit of measure
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.
Cup (noun)
A Canadian unit of measure equal to 8 imperial ounces (1/20 imperial gallon; 227.3 mL) or 250 mL.
Cup (noun)
A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
“The World Cup is awarded to the winner of a quadrennial football tournament.”
Cup (noun)
A contest for which a cup is awarded.
“The World Cup is the world’s most widely watched sporting event.”
Cup (noun)
The main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league.
Cup (noun)
A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.
“The ball just misses the cup.”
Cup (noun)
Any of various sweetened alcoholic drinks.
“cider cup; gin cup; claret cup”
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.”
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.”
Cup (noun)
The symbol cup denoting union and similar operations (confer cap).
Cup (noun)
A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.
Cup (noun)
(defensive style characterized by a three player near defense cupping the thrower; or those three players.
Cup (noun)
A flexible concave membrane used to temporarily attach a handle or hook to a flat surface by means of suction (suction cup).
Cup (noun)
Anything shaped like a cup.
“the cup of an acorn”
Cup (noun)
A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
Cup (noun)
That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.
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.”
Cup (verb)
To hold something in cupped hands.
“He cupped the ball carefully in his hands.”
Cup (verb)
To supply with cups of wine.
Cup (verb)
To make concave or in the form of a cup.
“to cup the end of a screw”
Glass (noun)
An amorphous solid, often transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime.
“The tabletop is made of glass.”
“A popular myth is that window glass is actually an extremely viscous liquid.”
Glass (noun)
A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
“Fill my glass with milk, please.”
Glass (noun)
The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
“There is half a glass of milk in each pound of chocolate we produce.”
Glass (noun)
Glassware.
“We collected art glass.”
Glass (noun)
A mirror.
“She adjusted her lipstick in the glass.”
Glass (noun)
A magnifying glass or telescope.
Glass (noun)
A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
Glass (noun)
The backboard.
“He caught the rebound off the glass.”
Glass (noun)
A barometer.
Glass (noun)
Transparent or translucent.
“glass frog;”
“glass shrimp;”
“glass worm”
Glass (noun)
An hourglass.
Glass (verb)
To fit with glass; to glaze.
Glass (verb)
To enclose in glass.
Glass (verb)
. To fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin composite (fiberglass).
Glass (verb)
To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
Glass (verb)
To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
Glass (verb)
To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
Glass (verb)
To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
Glass (verb)
To reflect; to mirror.
Glass (verb)
To become glassy.
Cup (noun)
a small bowl-shaped container for drinking from, typically having a handle.
Cup (noun)
the contents of a cup
“a cup of tea”
Cup (noun)
a measure of capacity used in cooking, equal to half a US pint (0.237 litre)
“a cup of butter”
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”
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.
Cup (noun)
a contest in which the winners are awarded a cup
“playing in the Cup is the best thing ever”
Cup (noun)
a cup-shaped thing.
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”
Cup (noun)
the hole on a putting green, or the metal container in it
“the ball bounced out of the cup”
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”
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”
Cup (verb)
place the curved hand or hands around
“he cupped her face in his hands”
Cup (verb)
bleed (someone) by using a glass in which a partial vacuum is formed by heating
“Dr Ross ordered me to be cupped”
Glass (noun)
a hard, brittle substance, typically transparent or translucent, made by fusing sand with soda and lime and cooling rapidly. It is used to make windows, drinking containers, and other articles
“the screen is made from glass”
“a glass door”
Glass (noun)
a substance similar to glass which has solidified from a molten state without crystallizing
“the black volcanic glass makes the beaches sparkle”
Glass (noun)
glassware
“we sell china and glass”
Glass (noun)
greenhouses or cold frames considered collectively
“lettuces grown under glass”
Glass (noun)
a drinking container made from glass
“a beer glass”
Glass (noun)
the contents of a glass
“have a glass of wine”
Glass (noun)
a lens, or an optical instrument containing a lens or lenses, in particular a monocle or a magnifying lens.
Glass (noun)
a mirror
“she couldn’t wait to put the dress on and look in the glass”
Glass (noun)
a weather glass.
Glass (noun)
an hourglass
“every hour the ship’s glass was turned”
Glass (verb)
cover or enclose with glass
“the inn has a long gallery, now glassed in”
Glass (verb)
(especially in hunting) scan (one’s surroundings) with binoculars
“the first day was spent glassing the rolling hills”
Glass (verb)
hit (someone) in the face with a beer glass
“he glassed the landlord because he’d been chatting to Jo”
Glass (verb)
reflect as if in a mirror
“the opposite slopes glassed themselves in the deep dark water”