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Definition: Cupping |
CuppingNoun1. A treatment in which evacuated cups are applied to the skin to draw blood through the surface. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cupping" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Biology & Biotechnology | A distortion whereby the faces become concave or convex across the grain. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | The curvature of the tape surface perpendicular to, and symmetrical about, the centre line of the tape. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A)a general term covering all operations involved in harvesting oleoresin, i. e. cupping, chipping, collecting and packing; b)more particularly, the initial and subsequent cutting of the face. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The various operations, e. g. bark scraping, initial cutting of the face, and(re)fixing of aprons and cups, preparatory to the start of tapping. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Medicine | The practise of using or the act of applying a cupping glass. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The operation of making a number of small punctures or incisions in the superficial layer of the skin ; production in the skin of many small, superficial scratches or punctures, as for the introduction of smallpox vaccine. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Metallurgy | The production of a flange on a hollow component by means of a punch and die. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Remedy | Treatment, medical treatment, regimen; dietary, dietetics; vis medicatrix, vis medicatrix naturae; medecine expectante; bloodletting, bleeding, venesection, phlebotomy, cupping, sanguisae, leeches; operation, surgical operation; transfusion, infusion, intravenous infusion, catheter, feeding tube; |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cupping |
| English words defined with "cupping": Bdellometer ♦ cup, Cupping glass ♦ Dry cupping ♦ Scarificator ♦ transfuse ♦ Ventouse ♦ Wet cupping. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cupping": cupping test ♦ JEWEL-CUPPING-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [Instruments for cupping and bloodletting] / Andrea Russo disegna Raffacle (?) Biondi inc. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Bloodletting: Cupping bells & various views of scarifiers]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [History of medicine in pictures] : [Galen cupping a patient]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Cupping" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.65% of the time. "Cupping" is used about 85 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 97.65% | 83 | 36,350 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.18% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.18% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 85 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "cupping": Acupuncture cupping method ♦ Air pumping cupping method ♦ cupping glass ♦ cupping test ♦ cupping tool ♦ Dry cupping ♦ Herb cupping ♦ wet cupping. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "cupping": tin-cupping. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
cupping | 115 |
cupping tire | 24 |
cupping therapy | 22 |
cupping set | 12 |
chinese cupping | 11 |
cupping massage | 7 |
cupping table | 6 |
cupping nerve optic | 6 |
cupping floor hardwood | 5 |
breast cupping | 5 |
acupuncture and cupping | 4 |
cupping glass | 3 |
biomagnetic cupping set | 3 |
cupping room | 3 |
cupping fire | 3 |
cupping motorcycle tire | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cupping"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | hedhje kupash. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | поставяне на вендузи. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "入杯内. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | skarifikation (scarification), sænkebertling (flanging), krumning i tværretning (cuping, dish), kopsætning (scarification), klargøring til harpikstapning (setting up), harpikstapning (bleeding, chipping, resin tapping, turpentining), båndets tværkrumning (transverse curl). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | trompen (flanging), maken van tapsnede (setting up), inenting (immunization, scarification, vaccination), harsaftappen (bleeding, chipping, resin tapping, turpentining), dwarskrul (transverse curl). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | reunan laipoittaminen (flanging), poikittaiskuperuus (transverse curl), pihkan kerääminen (bleeding, chipping, resin tapping, turpentining), laipoittaminen (flanging), kovertuminen (cuping, dish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | courbure transversale (transverse curl), voilement (cuping), tuilage (cuping, curl, transverse curl), scarification, préparation du gemmage, gemmage, bordage la presse, application de ventouses. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wöllring (cuping, dish), transversaler Bandverzug (transverse curl), Stichelung (scarification), Stanzbördeln (flanging), Skarifikation (scarification), Schroepfen (scarification), Schüsselung (cuping, dish), Querkrümmung (cuping, dish, transverse warping), Hämospasie (scarification), Gesenkbördeln (flanging), Anzapfen (bottle, breach, broach, pump, tap, touch smb. for), Anlgen der Lache (setting up), Anlegen der Lachte (setting up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σκαριφισμός (scarification), βεντούζα (cup, sucker), χάραξη στο δέρμα (scarification), εγκάρσια καμπυλότητα (transverse curl), επίθεση βεντούζασ, Σκαφοειδής παραμόρφωση (cuping, dish), διαμόρφωση απολήξεων με κάμψη (flanging), ροετοιμασία ρητίνευσης (setting up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "קזת "ם (bloodletting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | köpölyözés (blood letting, scarification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | curvatura trasversale (transverse curl), coppettazione (scarification), scarificazione (scarification), resinazione (bleeding, chipping, resin tapping, turpentining), preparazione della resinazione (setting up), imbarcamento (cuping, curl, dish, warping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uppingcay curvatura transversal (transverse curl), sangria (bleed, depletion), resinagem (bleeding, chipping, resin tapping, streaking, turpentining), gemagem (bleeding, chipping, resin tapping, turpentining), fase de preparação da recolha de resina (setting up), empeno (cuping, deformation, deviation from stated shape, dish, spring, springing, warpage, warping), aplicação de ventosas (scarification). (various references) применение банок. (various references) proces puštanja krvi. (various references) curvatura transversal (transverse curl), utilización de tazas, resinado (bleeding, chipping, resin tapping, turpentining), picado (choppy, dive, dived, ground, nosedive, vexed), escarificación (scarification), atejado (cuping, dish, transverse warping), abrir los pinos (setting up), abarquillado (cuping, curl, dish). (various references) kupning (cuping, dish, earthing, earthing up, earthing-up, hilling, hilling up, hilling-up rebedding, ridging, transverse warping, warping), kådtäkt (bleeding, chipping, resin tapping, turpentining), förberedelser vid kådtappning (setting up), buktighet (convolution), bandbuktighet (transverse curl). (various references) застосування банок. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cupping": cuppings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "cupping": hiccupping. (additional references) | |
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"Cupping" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cappings, Cluppins, coppung, Culpin, cupin, Cuppin, cuprina, cusping. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-n-p-p-u" | |
-1 letter: upping. | |
-2 letters: cuing, pinup. | |
-3 letters: ping, pung, unci. | |
-4 letters: cig, cup, gin, gip, gnu, gun, nip, pic, pig, pin, pip, piu, pug, pun, pup. | |
-5 letters: in, nu, pi, un, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-n-p-p-u" | |
+1 letter: cuppings. | |
+2 letters: uncapping. | |
+3 letters: hiccupping, mudcapping, scuppering, unclipping. | |
+4 letters: outcropping, prepunching, uppercasing. | |
+5 letters: outcroppings, precomputing, preoccupying, supplicating, uppercutting. | |
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