cupful

«cupful» in Mova's school dictionary: The amount that a cup holds — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a cupful, cupfuls — also cupsful)

meaning for a pupil

1) The amount that a cup holds. tree →

2) In cooking, a measure of about one cup of an ingredient. tree →

sense in the lessons

In cooking and maths problems «a cupful» is a unit of amount: «two cupfuls of flour». In science it is a rough measure when you do not have a measuring jug. It tells you how much, not the cup itself. Phrases: «a cupful of», «half a cupful».

examples

• Add a cupful of milk to the mixture. tree →
• She poured a cupful of water onto the plant. tree →
• The recipe needs two cupfuls of flour. tree →
• He scooped a cupful of sand into the bucket. tree →
• If one cupful is 250 ml, four cupfuls make one litre. tree →
• Half a cupful of sugar is plenty. tree →

note

Plural is usually «cupfuls» (also «cupsful»). «Two cups of flour» and «two cupfuls of flour» mean the same amount. In maths, the size of a cup must be given: a US cup is about 240 ml, a metric cup in Australia, New Zealand and Canada is 250 ml.

In the corpora

• Oil floats on water because it is less dense than water: a cupful of oil weighs less than a cupful of water.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cupful» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.