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# cupful

noun (a cupful, cupfuls — also cupsful)

«cupful» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. The amount that a cup holds. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cupful/#m2)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «cupful» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cupful/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«cupful» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/cupful.html) on Mova free.