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Definition: Tup |
TupNoun1. Uncastrated adult male sheep: "a British term is `tup'". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | The striking head of an impact-testing machine. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | The ram or monkey, or falling weight, of a piledriver, drophammer, etc.; specif., the heavy head of a steam hammer in which the upper pallet issecured. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | TUP. A ram: figuratively, a cuckold. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TUP | English | Total Urinary Protein | N/A |
TUP | Finnish | Puhelinkäyttäjäosa | Post & Telecom |
TUP | German | Benutzerteil des Fernsprechdienstes | Post & Telecom |
TUP | Italian | Sottosistema telefonico d'utente | Post & Telecom |
TUP | Portuguese | Parte utilizadora do serviço telefónico | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: TupSynonym: ram (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Animal | Horse. (beast of burden); cattle, kine, ox; bull, bullock; cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn; sheep; lamb, lambkin; ewe, ram, tup; pig, swine, boar, hog, sow; steer, stot; tag, teg; bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat. |
Man | Cock, drake, gander, dog, boar, stag, hart, buck, horse, entire horse, stallion; gibcat, tomcat; he goat, Billy goat; ram, tup; bull, bullock; capon, ox, gelding, steer, stot. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tup |
| Specialty definitions using "tup": lifting belt ♦ Robin Mutton ♦ TO TUP. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tup" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Maya (to extinguish), Portuguese (telephone user part), Serbo-Croatian (blank, blunt, cloddish, dull, hebetate, obtuse, stolid). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tup Tup (1972) | |
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| "Tup" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Tup" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tup | 30 |
thai tim tup | 3 |
bebek tup | 3 |
holmes tup | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tup"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | ram (ram). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | dele (ewe, fold, sheep), çekan (about-sledge, hammer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كبش (bell wether, mail sheep, ram). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | чифтосвам се, топуз, овен (buck, ram). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kozel (billy goat, buck, he goat), beran (ram, rammer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vaedderlam (male lamb, ram lamb, tup lamb), vædderlam (male lamb, ram lamb, tup lamb, wedder lamb, yearling), bukkelam (male lamb, ram lamb, tup lamb, wedder lamb, yearling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ram (Aries, ram). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | virŝafo (ram). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pässikaritsa (male lamb, ram lamb, tup lamb, wedder lamb, yearling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bélier. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Widder (aries, ram). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αρσενικός αμνός (male lamb, ram lamb, tup lamb), αρσενικό αρνί (male lamb, ram lamb, tup lamb, wedder lamb, yearling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | איל (buttress, chief, head, magnate, noble, ram), זכר (male, masculine, masculine gender, remember). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kos (Aries, buck, ram). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Icelandic | hrútur (ram). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | domba jantan (ram). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pecora di un anno (male lamb, ram lamb, tup lamb, wedder lamb, yearling), agnello maschio (male lamb, ram lamb, tup lamb, wedder lamb, yearling), agnello (lamb). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | conrea (ram), comyssey (cohabit, copulate, love-making, tupping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uptay pilão (bruising mail, mortar, pestle, ponder, pounder), cobrir a ovelha, carneiro (lamb, mutton, ram, sheep). (various references) mârli. (various references) баран (ram, sheep). (various references) ovan (aries, battering ram, ram). (various references) carnero (mutton, ram, wether). (various references) vädur (ram), gumse (ram), bagge (ram, wether). (various references) tos vurmak, koç (Aries, bottle-holder, ram), şahmerdan (battering ram, beetle, pile driver, ram), çiftleşmek (breed, copulate, couple, mate, pair, rut, tread). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aries. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tup": tupelo, tupelos, tupik, tupiks, tupped, tuppence, tuppences, tuppenny, tupping, tups. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tup": cutup, dustup, getup, letup, setup, situp, startup, tittup. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tup": centuple, centupled, centuples, centupling, cutups, dustups, getups, letups, octuple, octupled, octuples, octuplet, octuplets, octuplex, octupling, octuply, quintuple, quintupled, quintuples, quintuplet, quintuplets, quintuplicate, quintuplicated, quintuplicates, quintuplicating, quintupling, septuple, septupled, septuples, septupling, setups, sextuple, sextupled, sextuples, sextuplet, sextuplets, sextuplicate, sextuplicated, sextuplicates, sextuplicating, sextupling, sextuply, situps, startups, stupa, stupas, stupe, stupefaction, stupefactions, stupefied, stupefies. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: put. | |
| Words within the letters "p-t-u" | |
-1 letter: up, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "p-t-u" | |
+1 letter: phut, pout, punt, puts, putt, putz, tump, tups. | |
+2 letters: caput, cutup, erupt, getup, input, kaput, letup, phuts, poult, pouts, pouty, pruta, punto, punts, punty, puton, putti, putto, putts, putty, setup, situp, spout, spurt, sputa, stoup, stump, stupa, stupe, taupe, thump, trump, tulip, tumps, tupik, turps, unapt, uplit, upset. | |
+3 letters: abrupt, catsup, copout, cutups, depute, deputy, dustup, erupts, getups, hutzpa, impute, inputs, irrupt, kaputt, letups, metump, output, payout, peanut, penult, pignut, pigout, piquet, plutei, pluton, potful, poults, pouted, pouter, precut, prutah, prutot, pullet, pulpit, pundit, punnet, punted, punter, puntos, pupate, puppet, purest, purist, purity, putlog, putoff, putons, putout, putrid, putsch, putted, puttee, putter, putzed, putzes, repute, roupet, sculpt, septum, setups, situps, spouts, sprout, spurts, sputum, stoups, stumps, stumpy, stupas, stupes, stupid, stupor, takeup, taupes, teacup, thumps, tittup, topful, tophus, tossup, toupee, troupe, trumps, tulips, tumped, tuneup, tupelo, tupiks, tupped, turnip, turnup, typhus, unkept, unpent, unstep, unstop, unwept, upbeat, upcast, updart, update, upgirt, uplift, upmost, uppity, uprate, uproot, upsent, upsets, upshot, upstep, upstir, uptake, uptear, uptick, uptilt, uptime, uptore, uptorn, uptoss, uptown, upturn, upwaft, utopia. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Abbreviations 11. Acronyms 12. Derivations | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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