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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cupful/#m1)

2) In cooking, a measure of about one cup of an ingredient. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cupful/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cupful/#x1)
- She poured a cupful of water onto the plant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cupful/#x2)
- The recipe needs two cupfuls of flour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cupful/#x3)
- He scooped a cupful of sand into the bucket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cupful/#x4)
- If one cupful is 250 ml, four cupfuls make one litre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cupful/#x5)
- Half a cupful of sugar is plenty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cupful/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/83-floating-and-sinking/22/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cupful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cupful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.