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# teacup

«teacup» in Mova's school dictionary: **a cup used for drinking tea, often with a handle and a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a teacup, teacups)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A teacup is a cup used for drinking tea, often with a handle and a saucer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teacup/#m1)

2) A teacup can also be the amount a teacup holds, used in old recipes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teacup/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life teacups appear at tea parties and at Gran's house. In stories teacups show politeness and old-fashioned homes. The phrase «a storm in a teacup» (UK; US «a tempest in a teapot») means a lot of fuss about something small. Phrases: a teacup and saucer, a storm in a teacup.

### examples

- Gran poured the tea into her best teacups. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teacup/#x1)
- I broke a teacup when I was washing up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teacup/#x2)
- We had a teddy bears' tea party with tiny teacups. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teacup/#x3)
- Add one teacup of flour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teacup/#x4)
- Their argument was just a storm in a teacup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teacup/#x5)
- The teacup had a pattern of roses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teacup/#x6)

### note

One word: teacup. Countable. In old recipes a teacup is a rough measure, not exact. Not the same as a mug (bigger, no saucer).

### In the corpora

- [The first witness is the Hatter, still holding his teacup and bread-and-butter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/21-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1/10/)
- [The Hatter is so nervous he bites a piece out of his teacup.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/21-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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