Wiktionary
n. a kitchen utensil used primarily to measure the volume of liquid or bulk solid cooking ingredients.
WordNet
n. graduated cup used for measuring ingredients
Wikipedia
A measuring cup or measuring jug is a kitchen utensil used primarily to measure the volume of liquid or bulk solid cooking ingredients such as flour and sugar, especially for volumes from about 50 mL (2 fl oz) upwards. The cup will usually have a scale marked in cups and fractions of a cup, and often with fluid measure and weight of a selection of dry foodstuffs. Measuring cups are also used to measure washing powder, liquid detergents or bleach, with a measuring cup not also used for food.
Measuring cups may be made of plastic, glass, or metal. Transparent (or translucent) cups can be read from an external scale; metal ones only from a scale marked on the inside. Smaller measuring spoons lack a scale and are filled and leveled to maximum capacity.
Usage examples of "measuring cup".
He had just opened a bottle of balsamic vinegar and poured four ounces into a measuring cup when he heard movement behind him.
She sighed as she scooped the grated lemon rind into a small bowl and reached up to retrieve a measuring cup from the shelf above her.
Art took the metal pan, dipped a measuring cup in to fill it halfway, and topped the cup from the plastic bottle.
Without a calendar, a stopwatch, a measuring cup on the night table, I couldn't possibly know how to die.
A small measuring cup stood beside it, which he ignored, knocking back a slug of the white liquid directly from its source instead.
Nor could she tell anything from Mr Pike, who seemed to be a little tiddly from some wine he was drinking out of a measuring cup.
On it sat three crudely fashioned straw dolls, a couple of badly chipped enamel pots, a broken piece of yardstick and a tin measuring cup.
When their footsteps had faded, she again dipped the measuring cup into the sack of belmayce.
I handed her another measuring cup and told her to fill it with a half cup of water.
Once he'd transported the last measuring cup, he took a paper from his pocket and scanned it, his lips curling downward as if he were reading the hymns to be played at his funeral.
I pour five ounces of honey into a Pyrex measuring cup and then hunker down to rummage in the counter under the sink for a quart Ball jar--pale water-blue glass with a heavy lid of dull, pewter-gray metal.
Picking up a measuring cup, she approached the pot fearfully, glanced into it, and with trembling hands, poured in the contents of the cup, then stirred energetically with a wooden spoon.
She stood there in my small kitchen, a measuring cup of fresh coffee beans in one hand.